Some of the biggest brands in the food industry will speak at the RT12/Zero Deforestation Transparency and Scale conference taking place in Lille, France, 31 May to 1 June 2017. [ + ]

Tetra Pak, a food processing and packaging solutions company, has launched its first Asia-based Customer Innovation Centre (CIC) in Singapore. [ + ]

The demand for guar gum is forecast to recover from the minor losses registered between 2011 and 2016, expanding almost 2% yearly to 53 million pounds in 2021. [ + ]

Fonterra has reopened the doors to its milk powder manufacturing plant in Malaysia following a NZ$7 million investment to boost manufacturing efficiencies and ensure it continues to meet world-class health, safety, and food safety and quality standards. [ + ]

A new nationwide study of young baby boomers contradicts the popular belief that fast-food consumption is concentrated amongst the poor. [ + ]

Food Industry Asia has commissioned a study to investigate the economic impacts of nutritional labelling on ASEAN countries. [ + ]

The Association for Packaging and Processing Technologies (PMMI) addressed the changing global packaging market during Interpak. [ + ]

Bacharach, reperesented in Australia by System Control Engineering, has acquired Parasense, a company that specialises in refrigeration detection and monitoring equipment for the food retail and military segments of the refrigeration and air-conditioning market. [ + ]

Unilever has developed a new technology called CreaSolv Process to recycle sachet waste. This technology has been developed with the Fraunhofer Institute for Process Engineering and Packaging in Germany and is inspired by processes used to recycle television sets. [ + ]

A low-cost water treatment system has been found to remove particles 1000-fold more efficiently than conventional microfiltration systems without the need for physical filters or membranes that can clog or require replacement. [ + ]

Understanding accurately what's happening on the production line is vital to driving continuous improvement and enhancing a business's profits. [ + ]

A new source of red/blue/purple coloured anthocyanins where the product is not destroyed during colour extraction may be on the horizon. [ + ]

Australians are eating at least a third more salt than they think. [ + ]

Visitors to foodpro should be sure to visit CSIRO's booth, where you may be able to sample some ready-to-eat meals prepared using CSIRO's world-first, patented innovation in high-pressure thermal sterilisation. [ + ]

Crown Holdings, a leading supplier of metal packaging products, opened its new beverage can manufacturing plant in Nichols, New York, with a ribbon-cutting ceremony on 9 May. [ + ]