Technology
Food & Beverages Processing
Smart Labels: The Future of Packaging and Consumer Engagement
Smart labels are no longer just a concept—they're becoming a vital part of the packaging industry, transforming how products communicate with consumers and businesses alike. From QR codes to RFID tags, these labels incorporate technology that goes beyond traditional printing methods. They allow for real-time tracking, offer enhanced transparency, and improve operational efficiency. Industries such as retail, logistics, healthcare, and food & beverage are using smart labels to meet consumer demand for more transparency, security, and convenience.
3 min |
September 2025
Food & Beverages Processing
Hauser Weinimport's pioneering aseptic PET packaging line from Sidel produces over 600 million bottles
Sidel and Hauser Weinimport celebrate 15 years after installing Germany's first Combi Predis for aseptic PET packaging
2 min |
September 2025
Food & Beverages Processing
Marking the Adriatic
Bottler Radenska ADRIATIC counts on LEIBINGER coding & marking systems in its production
4 min |
September 2025
Food & Beverages Processing
LANXESS Flavors & Fragrances: Shaping the Future of Taste, Freshness, and Sustainability in Food & Beverages
LANXESS India's Flavors & Fragrances (F&F) Business Unit is at the forefront of shaping the global food and beverage industry with its unique blend of science, creativity, and sustainability. From flavor and fragrance ingredients to world-class preservatives and clean-label solutions, its products are found in everyday applications ranging from baked goods and beverages to personal care, animal nutrition, and industrial uses. With a strong global footprint and production sites across Germany, the Netherlands, the UK, India, and the USA, the F&F Business Unit has emerged as a trusted partner for enhancing taste, extending shelf life, and ensuring food safety. In this exclusive conversation, Mr. Namitesh Roy Choudhury, Vice Chairman & Managing Director, LANXESS India Private Limited, shares insights on how the business unit is balancing sensory innovation with advanced chemistry, pioneering sustainability through initiatives like Scopeblue, and helping the industry adapt to evolving consumer demands for safe, natural, and climate-friendly solutions.
4 min |
September 2025
Food & Beverages Processing
Balancing the Brew: Fermentatior Dynamics of Saccharomyces and Combined Yeast Cultures
Yeast, a eukaryotic unicellular microorganism essential for fermentation, is a low-cost raw material for alcoholic products such as wine, beer, and spirits and has more than 700 identified species (Sandefur, 1998).
10+ min |
September 2025
Food & Beverages Processing
How Hygienic & Sanitary Design Powers Efficiency on the Line
It starts with something small. A single droplet of water left to pool inside a crevice. A crack too fine for the naked eye, but just wide enough to trap organic residue. One cleaning step skipped in a rush to get back online. Then come the consequences: a contamination alert. A product recall. A line shutdown. And suddenly, what looked like a minor design oversight becomes a multi-million-pound mistake.
7 min |
September 2025
Food & Beverages Processing
FPS Food Process Solutions Expands Global Expertise in End-to-End French Fry Processing
FPS Food Process Solutions (“FPS”), a global leader in turn-key food processing solutions, strengthens its End-to-End platform with senior hires hailing from the potato processing sector. Joining the FPS team are: Dave Rogers, Executive Director brings over 30 years experience in developing best operating practices and process optimization for multiple globally renowned potato processors. With his new role at FPS, Dave will support the End-to-End platform in providing strategic and in-depth technical guidance.
1 min |
September 2025
Food & Beverages Processing
Cosmo First builds an Al-ready Next-Gen Data platform with Snowflake's AI Data Cloud
Cosmo First Limited, a global conglomerate and a leading player in specialty films for packaging, lamination, labelling, and synthetic paper, has selected Snowflake's AI Data Cloud to build a next-gen centralized data platform by modernizing legacy systems, optimizing operations, and streamlining data workflows.
2 min |
September 2025
Food & Beverages Processing
Clean Label Functional Beverage Ingredients Market Size Worth USD 37.28 Billion by 2034 | CAGR: 9.00%
Consumers today aren't just reaching for drinks that taste good; they want beverages that do good, too.
3 min |
September 2025
Food & Beverages Processing
The Future of Food Packaging in India: Why Paper-Based Solutions Are Leading the Way to Safer, Sustainable, and Smarter Alternatives
India's food sector is witnessing a swift evolution with growing urbanization, shifting eating habits, and the surge in e-grocery and food delivery services. The Indian food packaging market is expected to reach INR 248,000 crore by 2032, expanding at a CAGR of close to 7%, as per IMARC Group. As this expansion gains speed, the discussion is no longer just about convenience and price but now includes safety, sustainability, and innovation, and paper-based packaging is at the epicenter of this change.
2 min |
September 2025
Food & Beverages Processing
Corbion and BRAIN Biotech team to shape the future of innovation in nature-based ingredient technologies
Corbion, the global sustainable ingredients company based in Amsterdam, and BRAIN Biotech AG, headquartered in Zwingenberg, Germany, have reached agreement to collaborate in the development of novel biobased antimicrobial compounds and its derivatives. This collaboration will accelerate Corbion's efforts to deliver enabling preservation capabilities to food manufacturers that also resonate with consumers looking for food products based on natural ingredients.
1 min |
September 2025
Food & Beverages Processing
Gen z's Underground Revolution: How the Youngest Consumers are Brewing New Trends in Herbal Tea
India’s youngest customers, Generation Z, are leading an underground Revolution in their cups. Gen Z, or individuals between the ages of 18 and 25, regard tea as a dynamic tool for wellbeing, identity, and self-care, in contrast to earlier generations who see it as a ritual or routine. By fusing traditional herbs with their contemporary lifestyle, this group is leading a big shift towards drinks made from plants that serve a purpose, often mixing old traditions with their modern lives. This change became much faster because of the covid- 19 pandemic, which made young people more aware of their health and immunity.
2 min |
September 2025
Food & Beverages Processing
WINN Sauces Introducing "Easy Peasy Chinesey" masalas for the modern Indian kitchen at just Rs.10/-
WINN introduces \"Easy Peasy Chinesey\" Masalas- Big Chinese Flavours, Small Effort, a collection of dry masalas designed for preparing restaurant-quality Indo-Chinese dishes at home.
2 min |
September 2025
Food & Beverages Processing
Phab Launches India's Only Savoury Protein Bar Inspired by Iconic Street-Style Bhel
India's most iconic street snack just got a revolutionary upgrade. Phab, the innovative homegrown protein brand has launched India's first savoury protein bar the Bhel Bars, as part of its new Street Collection, making one of the country's most loved snacks portable, protein-packed, and cleaner than ever before.
1 min |
September 2025
Food & Beverages Processing
Establishing Integrated Coconut Industries as a Marketing Approach for Trading Diversified Coconut By-Products in India
Coconut is a multipurpose crop grown worldwide and is refereed as “Kalpavriksha” because it provides more useful and diverse products.
7 min |
September 2025
Food & Beverages Processing
Mondi launches Ad/Vantage Smooth Brown Semi ExtensibleSmooth. Strong. Coatable.The paper built for performance
Mondi, a global leader in sustainable packaging and paper, has launched Ad/ Vantage Smooth Brown Semi Extensible, an innovative kraft paper that combines exceptional strength, extensibility, high puncture resistance and a smooth surface.
1 min |
September 2025
Food & Beverages Processing
The Global Food Cold Chain: Powering the Future of Freshness, Safety, and Convenience
The food cold chain has become the invisible backbone of modern food supply systems, ensuring perishable products reach consumers with uncompromised freshness and safety.
5 min |
September 2025
Food & Beverages Processing
QNET Expands Wellness Portfolio in India with the Launch of Premium Nutriplus Monofloral Honey – Ramtil & Tulsi Variants
QNET, one of the leading global direct-selling company, has announced the launch of its premium Nutriplus Monofloral Honey range in India, introducing two exquisite variants – Ramtil (Guizotia abyssinica) and Tulsi (Holy Basil). Ethically and sustainably sourced from rural beekeepers, both honeys are 100% pure, natural, and unprocessed, offering consumers authentic taste and potential wellness benefits.
1 min |
September 2025
Food & Beverages Processing
Top Applications Driving the Banana Puree Market in the Food and Beverage Sector
Banana puree, a smooth, naturally sweet product derived from ripe bananas, has become an increasingly vital ingredient across the food and beverage landscape.
4 min |
September 2025
Food & Beverages Processing
From Dairy Revolution to Global Packaging Leader – Mrunal Joshi on Nichrome India's Journey and Future
Since its pioneering debut in 1977 with India's first indigenous milk packaging machine, Nichrome India Ltd. has been synonymous with innovation, quality, and customer-centric solutions in the packaging industry.
5 min |
September 2025
Food & Beverages Processing
Sig and Pulpac Partner To Scale Paper-Based Closures
SIG entered an strategic partnership with PulPac, the global leader in Dry Molded Fiber technology.
2 min |
September 2025
Food & Beverages Processing
Corbion and BRAIN Biotech team to shape the future of innovation in nature-based ingredient technologies
Corbion, the global sustainable ingredients company based in Amsterdam, and BRAIN Biotech AG, headquartered in Zwingenberg, Germany, have reached agreement to collaborate in the development of novel biobased antimicrobial compounds and its derivatives. This collaboration will accelerate Corbion's efforts to deliver enabling preservation capabilities to food manufacturers that also resonate with consumers looking for food products based on natural ingredients.
2 min |
September 2025
Food & Beverages Processing
Every Drop and Every Breath: A.Τ.Ε. Powers Sustainability in F&B
How A.T.E. Group is helping the food and beverage industry balance efficiency, sustainability, and trust.
4 min |
September 2025
Food & Beverages Processing
Food Safety Connect: A Smarter Approach Towards Safe Food
In the current scenario, where people have become aware of safe food consumption at various eating joints like street food and restaurants; checking out for hygiene, availability of fresh foods and vendors’ health and cleanliness, the focus is food quality rather than quantity.
2 min |
September 2025
Food & Beverages Processing
From Carbon Waste to Carbon Wonder: The Story of Carbon Dots
Nanotechnology is the science, engineering, and application of materials at the nanoscale, typically between 1 and 100 nanometers.
6 min |
September 2025
Food & Beverages Processing
Fresh, Tangy, Timeless: The Expanding Role of Citrus Flavor in Food and Beverages
From the refreshing tang of lemonade to the subtle zest in baked goods, citrus flavors have long been a cornerstone of the global food industry. The versatility, vibrancy, and consumer appeal of citrus flavoring make it one of the most widely used flavor categories across food and beverage segments. Beyond taste, citrus also resonates with health-conscious consumers due to its association with naturalness, freshness, and nutritional benefits.
5 min |
September 2025
Food & Beverages Processing
Powerhouse Ranveer Singh's Super You Introduces Protein Powders backed by Innovative Bio-Fermented Yeast Protein Technology
After breaking the internet and reshaping the snacking game with its cult-favourite India's first protein wafers and the healthiest multigrain chips, Super You is now going pro.
2 min |
September 2025
Food & Beverages Processing
Guardian Healthcare launches Ayurvedic Honeysticks
Guardian Healthcare Pvt. Ltd., the primary franchisee of GNC in India (\"GNC India\") the trusted name supplements, in health and wellness announces the launch of a categoryfirst innovation, Ayurvedic Honeysticks infused with Shilajit + Saffron and Ashwagandha.
2 min |
September 2025
Food & Beverages Processing
Less CO₂, more performance: CarbonLite® by SÜDPACK
Effective immediately, SÜDPACK's high-performance tubular pouch films from the premium Pure-Line range are being consolidated into a dedicated product family and marketed under the CarbonLite® brand. Based on PP and PE mono-materials, these films can be processed on both horizontal and vertical flow pack machines into flowpacks, doypacks (with or without spouts), and block-bottom pouches. Most importantly, their recyclability and optimized material efficiency result in a significantly smaller carbon footprint compared to conventional multi-material laminates or heavier tray packaging – offering clear economic advantages, including lower disposal costs.
2 min |
September 2025
Food & Beverages Processing
Eco-Friendly Cooling: Advancing Energy-Efficient Refrigeration in Food Storage
In today's rapidly evolving food supply chain, where freshness, safety, and sustainability converge, the integration of energy-efficient refrigeration systems has become more than just an operational upgrade—it is a necessity.
6 min |