Antiviral plastic film for surfaces developed at RMIT
21 April, 2026The plastic film designed to kill viruses by mechanical forces rather than chemicals could be suitable for high-touch surfaces like phones and keyboards.
Cargill expands its edible oil facility in Malaysia
14 April, 2026Providing solutions for chocolate, bakery and dairy applications, the expanded plant will include a specialty fats production line.
UQ opens FaBA MakerSpace for food innovations
08 April, 2026The University of Queensland has opened a purpose-built facility designed to help speed up food product development and strengthen industry collaboration.
Tetra Pak opens new product development centre in Thailand
30 March, 2026With the focus on liquid-based food and beverage categories, the centre is equipped with pilot plants to support food and beverage manufacturers across APAC.
Mondelēz completes its new Toblerone production line
17 March, 2026The triangular brand's production capacity and innovation capability will be accelerated thanks to the opening of a new facility in Bern, Switzerland.
Construction begins on Alfa Laval's Food Application & Innovation Center
06 March, 2026The research and development facility being built by Alfa Laval in Copenhagen will initially focus on advancing protein processing.
Plenty Foods opens its nut powder processing facility in regional Queensland
26 February, 2026The new facility is producing a range of nut powders with nutritional and functional advantages that are set to inspire manufacturers of sports drinks and snacks.
Tip Top Bakeries doubles bread production capacity in WA
20 February, 2026Tip Top Bakeries has expanded its site in Canning Vale with the opening of a new $130m advanced bakery line which will supply fresh bread across WA.
Food-grade upscaling line for 'new food' developments
29 January, 2026GEA is building a food-grade pilot line in Europe for precision and biomass fermentation, designed to help startups commercialise their new food developments.
Norco celebrates two years of ice cream making at its reopened factory
24 November, 2025Norco has celebrated two years since its Lismore ice cream factory reopened, following the 2022 floods which left the factory out of action for 18 months.
Large-scale mixing plant for flavour production
20 November, 2025GEA is building a new large-scale mixing plant to increase capacity of flavour ingredients production at Symrise in Germany.
$300m production facility for frozen chips being built in Vic
06 November, 2025An international food manufacturer plans to establish its first Australian 24 h production facility in the Wimmera region, for making frozen fries from Aussie produce.
Pure Dairy opens manufacturing plant in Dandenong South
29 October, 2025Pure Dairy has opened its new 13,000 m2 dairy manufacturing facility in Australia's manufacturing heartland.
Fonterra invests NZ$75m for new butter line at Clandeboye
22 October, 2025Part of Fonterra's NZ$1bn investment plan, this project will help increase production capacity of a range of different butter formats at the Clandeboye site.
$18m upgrade at QUT's fermentation facility in Mackay
29 September, 2025The upgrade of QUT Pioneer BioPilot into a pilot-scale fermentation food-grade facility could help to fast-track new food product and ingredient innovations.
