When snack manufacturer Kolak Snack Foods needed to increase its output capacity to meet demand, it installed three Atlas Copco compressors. The compressors were pre-wired and pre-piped, ready to use out of the box. Read more »

A new study of global food supplies has confirmed what experts have long suspected: in the last 50 years, human diets around the world have grown more and more similar - by a global average of 36%. Read more »

Manufacturers of industrial packages are being hit particularly hard by price rises resulting, in part, from rising energy costs. Their containers, pallets, technical components and work-piece carriers are usually made of plastics. Although they are light and robust, a lot of energy is required for the injection-moulding of plastics packages. Furthermore, the manufacturers need granulate for this, which is in big demand and no longer available in limitless quantities. Read more »