
Jan 8, 2024 (Credit: TotalEnergies) Libra Consortium has taken the final investment decision (FID) to develop an innovative natural gas and CO2 separation and reinjection facility for the Mero 3 project in the Brazilian deep offshore pre-salt. The pilot unit, using a pioneer high pressure subsea separation technology (HISEP), will separate oil from CO2-rich gas…

Growing numbers of vegetarians are dissatisfied with the products available to them [Image credit: Stokkete/Shutterstock.com] Posted: 5 January 2024 Share this page The number of vegetarians satisfied with the choice of food products available to them has suffered a dramatic decline, according to the findings of new research commissioned by Ingredient Communications. The online poll…

A number of food industry players have collaborated on a project to develop technology that can make flexible plastic packaging recyclable. Over the past three-and-a-half years the companies, with support from Innovation Fund Denmark, have generated encouraging results to stop multi-laminate plastic packaging from food being incinerated. The packaging is composed of several materials that…

Spirits maker, Waldemar Behn says it is preparing for a productive 2024 as the family business learns from recording stable sales volumes in 2023. Rüdiger Behn, the spirits manufacturer’s managing director, notes a “positive and satisfactory” 2023 from cautious and realistic planning as well as the maintenance of existing brands, limited editions and its export…

Dozens of jobs are on the menu at Myco as the plant-based firm opened its first site in the UK. Almost 70 jobs will be created after the plant-based food manufacturer moved into a huge new product development site. Myco Holdings said it will transform a former food manufacturing plant in Leeming Bar into a…

A Great Taste Award winning, B Corp certified start-up brand is launching its White Miso Cooking Sauce and Tahini Sauce to Marks & Spencer stores nationwide in January 2024 (priced at £3.50 per 200ml bottle), in time for veganuary and helping to inspire flavour-packed New Year recipes. Nojō London, headed up by Simona Deifta, wants…

Bakers Basco has extended its equipment management services to Northern Ireland and Scotland. The cooperative venture, established in 2006 by Allied Bakeries, Fine Lady Bakeries, Frank Roberts & Sons, Hovis, and Warburtons, said the expansion marks a significant step in the company’s ongoing efforts to curb the mismanagement and misuse of their equipment. Basco has appointed…

Sweegen announced a landmark victory in the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, which has sided with Sweegen and affirmed the invalidation of PureCircle’s patents covering the highly sought-after stevia sweetener Rebaudioside M (Reb M). According to Sweegen, it is the primary producer of non-GMO Reb M originating from the stevia leaf, made…

Jan 4, 2024 DolWin epsilon HVDC platform (Credit: Aibel) The DolWin epsilon HVDC offshore wind converter platform has arrived to Aibel’s yard in Norway for final electrical outfitting and commissioning. After more than two months on a journey from Seatrium’s shipyard in Singapore, the DolWin epsilon offshore wind converter platform has entered the strait outside…

Have a flexible bag packaging application? Then head west to see a new flexible bag packaging solution. Matrix Packaging Machinery and its master distributor brands of INVpack and Pacraft (formerly Toyo Jidoki) will be demonstrating its latest flexible packaging technologies in booth 5231 at WestPack 2024, Feb. 6-8, at the Anaheim Convention Center, Anaheim, California.…