Food Bev Asia

  There are many challenges in the food industry, where from a manufacturer’s standpoint can be overwhelming especially since the pandemic struck. From there, other issues arose. But resilience is among the key characteristics of industry players, enabling them to survive the highly competitive landscape. Take for instance the story of Dairy Home, which through hard work became the first sustainable and organic milk producer in Thailand.    The industry is also responsible for improving nutrition and creating honest-to-goodness better products for their consumers. And we are happy to share that the winners of the Ringier Technology Innovation Awards in the Ingredients category mostly address this concern. This is also related to the growing concern that HarvestPlus sees in Asia where nutritional deficiencies remain high. HarvestPlus is well known in the area of biofortification through their CGIAR HarvestPlus Program. Ravinder Grover, HarvestPlus Program Lead for the Commercialisa

  IN THIS report on the Ringier Technology Innovation Awards, we detail the winning materials and machines in the Packaging category . Organised by Ringier Trade Media Ltd, this event recognises the major technologies that contribute to the development of China's F&B manufacturing.  This year, the awarding ceremonies  were held at the Guangzhou Huadu Crowne Plaza on August 25. SABIC SABIC is a global diversified chemicals company, headquartered in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. It manufactures in the Americas, Europe, Middle East and Asia Pacific, making distinctly different kinds of products: chemicals, commodity and high-performance plastics, agri-nutrients and metals. SABIC supports its customers by identifying and developing opportunities in key end-use applications such as construction, medical devices, packaging, agri-nutrients, electrical and electronics, transportation and clean energy. Its production in 2020 was 60.8 million metric tons. It boasts 9,946 global patent filings, a

EVERY year, The Ringier Technology Innovation Awards - Food & Beverage Industry recognises new ingredients, packaging, processing and other technological advances that will address manufacturing challenges in China’s F&B industry. In this report, we share the winning products and solutions in the Ingredients category. Organised by Ringier Trade Media Ltd, the Innovation Awards took place at the Guangzhou Huadu Crowne Plaza on 25 August 2022. GELITA GELITA’s SOLUFORM™ HST gelatin allows the substantial protein enrichment of a whole range of confectionery products. Manufacturers of marshmallows and fruit gums can fortify their products with up to 35% protein, while candies can be fortified with up to 88%. The gelatin also works with extruded products. Another product, VERISOL® HST gelatin is optimised for manufacturing sweets and high-protein candy in all sorts of categories, and ramp up the collagen levels of marshmallows and fruit gummies up to 33%. DKSH As a leading Market Exp

GloryBest has established a brand-new factory in Foshan, which is about 50 kms north of the company’s facility in Nansha, Guangdong. It has been in operation since August 2022.     The main objective of this transformative process is to expand the company's manufacturing capacity while supporting its long-term goals to provide reliable product, quality and service to its customers. Production in the Foshan factory will use the same raw materials, manufacturing equipment and production process. There will be no changes to our product specification, product code number as well as technical data sheet. The tracing system will also allow the company identify the plant manufacturing, production line, raw material and processing date. The slitting room GloryBest has obtained audit approval of ISO 9001:2015 and FSSC22000 qualification for its additional factory. The original certificate will be available beginning October 2022 on request. A glimpse of the warehouse and workshop The ove

TWO billion people, equal to about 25% of the global population, have diets that are insufficient in vitamins and minerals. This often leads to health and developmental problems, such as anaemia and stunting, especially among the most vulnerable sectors of the population from low- and middle-income countries. Asia's undernutrition seems a difficult one to conquer, but for the last 20 years, the CGIAR HarvestPlus program has been working on biofortification as part of the solution. Biofortification is the process of increasing the nutritional value of a food crop through conventional breeding or genetic modification. It makes essential vitamins and minerals available in foods that most people can readily afford and access. Examples of biofortified crops are iron-fortified beans, and pearl millet, vitamin-A enriched orange sweet potato, cassava, maize, rice and zinc-fortified wheat, rice and maize. To date, all biofortified crops promoted by HarvestPlus have been conventionally bre

  YOU now have free access to the August 2022 electronic issue of  FoodPacific Manufacturing Journal (FPMJ) a Ringier publication for the food and beverage industry in Southeast Asia and the rest of the Asian region.  From the latest ingredients and nutrition information to developments in automation for processing and packaging, here's a sampling of what's inside the latest issue of the magazine. SPECIAL REPORT Can a cyberattack happen to your company? While the adoption of IoT and smart technologies is paving a future that ensures efficient operations, better processing, and safer products, it has exposed companies to cyber criminals. In this report, Vijay Vaidyanathan, Regional Vice President – Solutions Engineering, APJ talks about the cybercrime in the food industry. INGREDIENTS Treading the road to less salt According to Harsch Kosthi, marketing director for Taste Technologies for APAC, Middle East and Africa for Kerry, salt is one of the top five ingredients that consume

 THERE might have been a time when hacking into a food or agricultural company's system was far from a hacker's mind. Why threaten a company that provides a basic need? But this is simply just a rhetorical question. Because just like any other business, food companies have to protect their data and operations, and more so because if they don't, the health and safety of their consumers could also be at risk. While the adoption of IoT and smart technologies is paving a future that ensures efficient operations, better processing, and safer products, it has exposed F&B companies to sophisticated cyber criminals. Many manufacturers are falling victims to these crimes, and the threat to the food supply chain persists as long as systems are easy to breach. The only way forward is to continually strengthen their cybersecurity.   To understand the issues, we talked to Vijay Vaidyanathan, who is currently the Regional Vice President – Solutions Engineering, APJ at the industrial

SPONSORED CONTENT Wu-Hsing Electronics CO., LTD Wu-Hsing’s vertical band sealer WSY-905 seals bags in upright position on the conveyor. The band sealer can seal bags containing liquid, powder or grit, and can be used for sealing large bags or products that can't be sealed horizontally. Applications: food, chemicals, hardware parts Specifications: Variable conveyor belt speed: Adjustable (1-10M/per min.) to accommodate materials of various thickness. Height of sealing head: Adjustable around 500mm. Loading weight of Conveyor <10kg.  Conveyor width: 200mm Optional features: Date Imprinter, stainless steel housing About the company Wu-Hsing Electronics Co., Ltd. is a professional manufacturer and supplier of sealing and vacuum sealing machines. In 1991 it began producing heat sealers for plastic bags and films. In 2002, the company developed nozzle type vacuum sealers for electronics factories in Taiwan.  In 2003, Wu-Hsing introduced the non-nozzle type vacuum sealer, and then cont

 LEADING beverage packaging manufacturer Taiwan Hon Chuan Group (THC) is accelerating product innovations and expanding its range of metal and aluminium caps with features to match different customer needs in preparation for market uptick. Drawing upon half a century of industry experience, the Taichung, Taiwan-based company is one of few suppliers serving as a one-stop shop for beverage packaging requirements, offering caps of different materials, preforms, bottles and labels. THC even does beverage filling. With the global beverage industry expected to continue thriving, the packaging market is likewise projected to rise. Ecommerce market data and intelligence provider PipeCandy forecasts total worldwide beverage market value this year will hit US$1813 billion and keep on its upward trajectory to reach US$1885 billion in 2024 and US$1961 billion the year after that. This positive outlook means only good news for the beverage packaging market, itself seen to maintain an upbeat out

MEASUREMENT tools are most important in understanding product characteristics necessary in quality development. Particularly for the food industry, human perceptions that lead towards final judgement about a product under study, provide one of the best measures absolutely necessary in product development and quality monitoring efforts. To achieve accurate and reliable sensory evaluation results, proper selection, training and calibration of sensory panelists (SP) are very important activities which need to be properly executed. The well-trained and maintained SPs serve as the instruments which cannot be replaced by any objective or physical measuring tools utilised especially in food research and quality assurance. Furthermore, these “human instruments” have to be properly maintained and regularly calibrated to ensure that their performance remain accurate and reliable through time. Retention of properly selected, trained and calibrated SPs is thus, an imperative in the food enterprise