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The European Commission has selected 94 transportation projects to receive nearly €2.8bn (US$3.3bn) in EU grants under the Connecting Europe Facility (CEF). By modernizing railways, inland waterways and maritime routes across the trans-European transportation network (TEN-T), the projects is intended to not only help better connect European regions and cities – north to south, east…
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Image courtesy 123rf Australian energy company AGL has fully acquired South Australia’s Virtual Power Plant (SAVPP), from Tesla, which will provide the company with access to a network of residential solar and battery systems. AGL has acquired the SAVPP, one of Australia’s largest VPPs, first established in 2018 with support from the SA Government and…
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Image: AdobeStock_267051858 Posted: 7 July 2025 Share this page The new guidance, which has been developed through extensive engagement and consultation with industry, aims to support food businesses in England, Wales and Northern Ireland to be compliant with mechanically separated meat (MSM) regulations, in line with the outcome of Supreme Court and High Court rulings.…
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Jérémy Rouxel and Marion Derycke, founder of the HIC Cider House © Gwen Tilly Posted: 7 July 2025 Share this page HIC Cider House has spent €150,000 to upgrade and enlarge its manufacturing facilities. New machinery, increased processing power with new equipment (tanks, bottling line and isobarometric pasteurisers), better processing capacity, improvement of logistics and…
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Potatoes from a field in Spain. Image courtesy PepsiCo Under a flexibility contract with Dutch grid operator Liander, food company PepsiCo will purchase power only when there is sufficient supply and transport capacity available on the grid. The food maker will use a thermal and storage installation, courtesy Dutch electricity supplier Eneco, to electrify processes…
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KHS is using artificial intelligence (AI) to solve the issues of the variety of closure alternatives and the increased demands on inspection technologies since tethered caps have been required for all single-use PET bottles in the EU since July 2024. The solutions supplier has added AI-based fault identification to its well-proven Innocheck TSI closing inspection…
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IBM Research and Nestlé R&D are collaborating to create a generative AI tool that can recognise new high-barrier packaging materials. Nestlé and IBM scientists leveraged AI-based processing techniques to construct a knowledge base of known materials from public and proprietary documents. The team fine-tuned a fit-for-purpose chemical language model on this curated corpus, enabling it…
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Langtins, a British confectionery company, has launched Noomz, a brand-new range of freeze-dried sweets. The new range takes classic candies and transforms household favourites into unique and lightweight sweets. Made famous by space exploration, Noomz is now bringing freeze-dried to the mainstream market with its extreme flavour and crunchy texture captivating the tastebuds of snack…
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Melissa Law is appointed as chief commercial and transformation officer and Kim Faulkner to join Tate & Lyle as chief supply chain officer. Posted: 6 July 2025 Share this page Tate & Lyle has announced the appointment of Kim Faulkner as chief supply chain officer and Melissa Law as chief commercial and transformation officer. Both…
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Associated Terminals has acquired two Liebherr CBG 500 E transshipment cranes – powered exclusively by electric drives, eliminating the need for hydraulic fluids – for its bulk handling operations on the Mississippi River. The deployment marks Liebherr’s entry to the US transshipment sector. Hybrid-electric power infrastructure These all-electric cranes will operate on a hybrid-powered barge…
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