Food & Beverage Processing Feature Articles

The downturn in mining has seen manufacturing companies in regional Queensland 'close their doors', causing job losses in communities – and the Australian Manufacturing Workers' ...

The latest vision technology helps cut manufacturing costs by providing 'an extra set of eyes' to prevent traceability mistakes.

Using a crop — popular in the Bronze Age but almost unknown today — University of Sydney scientists have helped pave the way to creating wheat resistant to the fungal disease stem ...

The nutrition bars sector continues to enjoy rising levels of interest, in line with or even ahead of the market for cereal bars as a whole.

By using methods developed to study the interactions of particles and applying them to economics, researchers at the University of Sydney have shown that small changes can create a ...

What makes employees leave or stay in organisations and how organisations can improve employee retention is the focus of a public lecture being held at the University of South ...

A leading international bee expert who has teamed with local beekeepers and experts has been awarded nearly $600,000 to help combat a global decline in bee health that threatens ...

As Australian companies begin the new financial year, business information analysts at IBISWorld reveal the industries set to soar and sink in 2013-14.

A leading adhesive company and a bio-based material technology firm have formed an alliance to develop hotmelt adhesives that use bio-based raw materials.

In an Australian first, research released last month shows packaging has a vital role to play within the supply chain in minimising food waste.

In light of a recent international report warning of impending food production shortages, Dr Shashi Sharma, Chair in Biosecurity and Food Security at Murdoch University, has a simple ...

A uniquely shaped bottle of port which has achieved the accolade of "Australia’s best-designed wine bottle" is the toast of a design consultancy run by University of South Australia ...

An immigrant cook is put to work in appalling conditions, for 14 hours a day, seven days a week, and not paid a cent. Is that slavery? Criminal exploitation? Not necessarily.

The latest European innovation for chilled ready meals is manufactured on a continuous production line and claims it can extend shelf life up to 45 days. If this seems a little hard ...

Packaged food manufacturers have about two years to voluntarily implement health star ratings on the front of their products, or risk legislative measures. The plan was agreed to ...

Fruit flavours dominate the yoghurt market, featuring in over two-thirds of global launches recorded by Innova Market Insights in the 12 months to the end of March 2013, rising to ...

A cross-functional team of 10 managers from resealable-closure company Zip-Pak recently completed an intensive 18-month global packaging study. This is what they found.

A one-day round table at RMIT University has explored the marketing advantages of packaging for sustainability.

Australian farmers want excess water from large floods to be ‘banked’ in aquifers for use in dry times.

Interest in natural products has grown markedly in recent years.