BASF & Smart Planet Technologies unite in EarthCoating discussions
BASF and Smart Planet Technologies are negotiating a possible strategic partnership for the mineralized coating technology, EarthCoating, for paper packaging applications.
Archives for October 7, 2014
Think you need $10m to start a bottled water company? Think again, says 20-something entrepreneur behind Waiakea Hawaiian 'volcanic' water
Most business administration graduates dream of starting their own business. And most end up working for someone else’s, at least in the short term. Not many of them start a bottled water company. But that doesn’t make Ryan Emmons crazy.
Honeysuckle tea to fight flu? Chinese claim ‘extremely novel finding’
Chinese scientists are claiming an ‘extremely novel finding’ after mice fought off several different types of flu when fed a honeysuckle tisane.
'It's a great change...': Japanese food industry readies for new health claim laws in 2015
Japan’s innovative but restricted €25bn functional foods and food supplements sector is about to be handed a set of game-changing marketing keys by the government, industry players told us at Health Ingredients-Japan in Tokyo today.
PepsiCo launches craft cola: Caleb’s Kola promises ‘amazing freshness’
As the news broke yesterday that Pepsi had launched a new craft cola, or 'kola' as the hipster spelling has it, we run the rule over a launch that excites us greatly - albeit not as much as the moon landings or the end of apartheid.
"As a member of Parliament, I need facts. And I think you, the food industry, have the resources to find those."
MEP defends EU novel foods laws against innovation attacks
The food industry should provide facts if it expects EU decision makers to consider dismantling the controversial novel foods regulation it has long-argued discourages innovation, a UK member of the European Parliament (MEP) said at a workshop in...
PURE LIFE EXOTICS LAUNCH FLAVORED WITH NATURAL FRUIT ESSENCES
Nestle Waters seeks soda-style taste with unsweetened sparkling waters
Nestle Waters tells BeverageDaily.com it designed new flavored sparkling waters range Nestle Pure Life Exotics to provide a ‘taste delivery’ as similar as possible to sodas without using sugar or artificial sweeteners.
UPM Raflatac cheers up cans as it targets craft beverages
UPM Raflatac says the launch of its craft beverage label stocks will help producers communicate an artisan image on cans.