Malaysian multinational Sime Darby is to channel €34m into
expanding its value-added oils and fats presence in Europe,
including upgrading its existing Unimills facility and setting up
new palm oil facilities.
Unilever has invested around €3m in its R&D capabilities for
structured emulsions to allow it to tap the healthy foods trend and
reduce reliance on commodity ingredients.
The food industry has a window to research ways to reduce saturated
fat in products before the UK's FSA starts its consumer awareness
campaign at the end of this year, says an expert from ADM who is
anticipating a swell of interest...
AarhusKarlsmann (AKK) will face a difficult start to 2008 with
two months of delayed deliveries of it specialty fats after this
week's fire, though no raw materials were destroyed.
Cognis is extending its non-hydrogenated fat range of Lamequick
whipping agents with three new versions suited to a broader range
of technical applications that meet consumers' healthy
requirements.
Cognis has developed a new whipping agent under its Lamequick brand
using vegetable oils that are free from lauric acid, thus avoiding
the soapy taste that can result from interactions with herbs and
spices.
Archer Daniel Midland has announced plans to build a European
R&D Centre in Germany to develop new oil and fat technologies
for the food and bio-fuels sectors and help improve existing ones.
US agri firm ADM is to expand production at its rapeseed crushing
facility in Germany, which will be converted to a multi-seed
crushing facility, it emerged yesterday.
Leading US peanut supplier Golden Peanut Company is expanding into
the peanut oil market, with the start up this month of a new multi
million-dollar oil refinery.
Encapsulating fats and fat-soluble ingredients with chitosan to
protect them during processing does not affect their availability
in the body, says new research that highlights the vast potential
of this technique.
An independent trans fat free cooking oil contest has been launched
in the US, designed to provide unbiased information on the
different zero trans oils currently available on the market.
The European subsidiary of a Malaysian plantation giant is set to
sign a four-year deal with Nizo food research in order to tap the
latest innovations in vegetable oil.
EFSA has concluded that rapeseed oil high in unsaponifiable matter
as a novel food ingredient is safe for human consumption under
specified conditions of use.
A newly developed citric acid ester of mono- and di-glycerides
promises to replace lecithin in chocolate applications where the
main functionality is to lower the viscosity and yield value.
Speciality oil firms will have the chance to voice their concerns
on global food codes as 100 government delegates meet to discuss
the fats and oil industry at a week-long session, kicking off in
the UK next week.
Spearing the growing trans fat alternative market, Germany's Bayer
CropScience will link up with private agro firm Cargill to bring a
new speciality oil to the market. Lindsey Partos reports.
Supplies for a range of vegetable oils used extensively by the food
industry are likely to improve for 2004/05 year on stronger yields
for peanuts, soybeans and rapeseed oil.
Competition continues to bite for Swedish speciality fats and oils
business Karlshamns with the firm announcing it will pour Euros
6.68 million (SEK60m) into cost-cutting measures.
Swedish speciality fats and oils firm Karlshamns builds up supplies
of pumpable fats and liquid margarine as industry spikes demand for
convenience fats, reports Lindsey Partos.
United International Enterprises Limited (UIE), the majority
stakeholder in vegetable oil firm Aarhus United, confirms it will
sell its considerable stake in the Danish firm, due to be divested
by January 2005.
Squeezed margins from 'fierce competition' have hit profits at
Swedish oils and fats firm Karlshamns, which this week announced
job cuts in the context of a cost saving programme.
United International Enterprises Limited (UIE), the majority
stakeholder in vegetable oil firm Aarhus United, confirms it will
sell its considerable stake in the Danish firm, due to be divested
by January 2005.
The majority shareholder in Danish vegetable oil firm Aarhus United
could soon place its considerable stake on the market, citing a
potential difference in long-term investment interests.
Swedish oils and fats firm Karlshamns, which saw its profits slip
at the end of 2003, has acquired UK flaked fats company Kelanco,
and with it a drive into value-added speciality fats for the
booming UK convenience food market.
Vegetable oils will take the lion's share of the oils and fats
market in the US as food makers continue to turn away from animal
fats in favour of vegetable alternatives. But as consumers increase
their health concerns, dietary...
A common, but increasingly expensive and popular, food ingredient
is the focus of a new global initiative to protect production.
Ingredients firm Aarhus United has linked up with other
stakeholders in the food industry to push a plan...
Intensified competition in the ingredients marketplace and
disappointing orders for Cocoa Butter Equivalents (CBE) following
the new chocolate rules leads to job losses at Danish fats and oils
firm Aarhus United.
Working to bring low fat lamb products to the European marketplace
scientists in Spain are set to add value to the end product with
new research focusing on boosting the presence of the disease
fighting 'friendly fat? conjugated...
Leading Japanese emulsifier supplier Riken Vitamin is set to boost
production at its subsidiary in Malaysia with the opening of a new
plant this week. High hopes to increase market share.
Scientists have developed a new cattle-feed supplement, which
dramatically boosts the content of unsaturated fatty acids over
saturated fats in cows' milk. It could also be used to reduce
saturated fat in meat, suggest the US-based...
A patent battle has ended with a US court giving chemicals giant
DuPont the commercial rights for a patented gene that could one day
lead to healthier vegetable oils for food preparation, according to
reports in the US press.
Long term sustainable growth is the key aim for a far-reaching
development process at Swedish fats and oils company Karlshamns,
the company confirmed recently when it announced its first half
results for 2002. An increasingly competitive...
