April 26, 2024

Technology & Sustainability

Taghleef as Finalist for Packaging Europe’s Sustainability Awards

Taghleef Industries is a finalist for the category Recyclable Packaging (Pre-Commercialized)at The Sustainability Awards 2022, the world’s most prestigious competition for sustainablepackaging innovation organized by Packaging Europe, with a BOPP, high barrier 4-side sealedsachet developed in collaboration with Gerosa Group. The packaging solution proposed aims to replace multi-material structures made ofPET/Alu/PE or PET/metPET/PE in applications

HAVER & BOECKER at Achema

Hall 3.0, stand F38: HAVER & BOECKER Machinery Division Hall 12.0, stand C1: HAVER & BOECKER Wire Weaving Division Hall 4.1, Stand E78: HAVER & BOECKER Particle Analysis Together with its technology subsidiaries Feige FILLING, AVENTUS and HAVER Automation, HAVER & BOECKER will be presenting the development of its Machinery Division to a Service Division

Siegwerk improves packaging recyclability and foster circularity

Siegwerk’s deinking primer technologies for labels and sleeves improve packaging recyclability and foster circularity With its UV- and water-based deinking primers for labels and sleeves, Siegwerk offers validated solutions for a safe and economic deinking of energy cured ink systems that have been so far considered as non-deinkable. This sets new norms  to drive deinking

Chocolate fillings with oleogels made from plant oils

Fraunhofer Institute for Process Engineering and Packaging IVV and partners from industry are investigating how fat content can be reduced in chocolate fillings by using oleogels made from plant oils as well as how the lipid composition can be optimized. The fillings manufactured using the recipe containing plant oils aren’t only distinguished by their nutritionally

Tereos launches Ensemble™, a clean and sustainable plant-based protein brand

Ensemble™, a new range of plant-based protein products has launched today offering clean, simple, sustainable, and versatile plant-based meals for institutional and commercial catering, retail distribution and the food processing industry. Ensemble™ is uniquely placed in that the products contain just five main ingredients: wheat, chickpeas, sunflower oil, fibre and vegetable stock. The ingredients used

How food choices can help the planet

Reshift of global, industrial and individual food choices needed A new book published by researchers at the University of Sydney and Curtin University explores how global food production and consumption are impacting the environment and contributing to emissions, offering a positive, sustainable way forward.  The food choices we make, the way we eat, and the world’s food

Real-time communication via 5G with Profinet

Siemens at Hannover Messe, Hall 9, Booth D49 – both on site and virtually, from May 30th to June 2nd.  Siemens enables the transmission of Profinet IO via a private 5G network, which allows data to be transmitted in real time for industrial applications. This is made possible by the VXLAN (Virtual Extensible LAN) transmission

Sustainability is the key theme in PP 

A new report and database from AMI Consulting published in March 2022 quantify and analyse the European PP market and examine the most recent industry dynamics. Rhian O’Connor, Senior Consultant and Katrina Purser, Senior Research Analyst are the authors of the 2022 editions of AMI’s Polypropylene Markets Europe report and Polypropylene Processors Europe database which are the result of an extensive research programme,

Kohlhoff Compact Hygiene Stations HD Line in Anuga FoodTec

Kohlhoff Hygienetechnik, Unna, always equips its compact hygiene stations developed for the food industry as well as for large slaughterhouses and cutting plants with high-performance and reliable components, thus meeting the special requirements for resilience and functional safety of these companies. At the beginning of the model year 2022, the compact hygiene stations of the

Henkel’s key trends in shaping a sustainable future for Packaging in 2022

The year 2022 will see the packaging industry continue to adopt a sustainability-firstmindset but success will demand greater cross-industry cooperation and transparency, predictsHenkel Adhesive Technologies. The challenges for the year ahead were explored at the closeof 2021 by Henkel alongside manufacturers and other experts from across the entire packagingand consumer goods supply chain at the

GCCIA two-day forum on Cyber Security Strategies in GCC Pavilion ends on a positive note

71% of networks have outdated operating systems, 64% are using insecure passwords, and 66% are not updated with the latest antivirus updates says Global IoT/ICS Risk Report Operational Technology (OT) — the hardware and software that monitors or controls equipment, assets and processes within industrial environments, has become a top target for rapidly growing cyber

Moro Hub, the largest solar-powered data centre in the Middle East and Africa

HE Saeed Mohammed Al Tayer, MD & CEO of Dubai Electricity and Water Authority (DEWA) and Steven Yi, President of Huawei Middle East & Africa, have broken ground for the first phase of the largest solar-powered data centre in the Middle East and Africa, set to be Uptime TIER III-Certified. The data centre will be

SACMI extends its traditional Christmas solidarity

This Christmas, SACMI has set out to support human dignity and basic rights: it has done so by working with inspiring charities who have, for years, been building projects and services for the local and international community. For a long time now, SACMI has been at the forefront when it comes to supporting local organizations