Sustainability
First Milk’s Haverfordwest Creamery hits First4Milk sustainability milestones
First Milk’s creamery, based at Merlin’s Bridge, has hit two significant sustainability milestones.
Making cartons without plastic caps
Many brands are transitioning to more sustainable packaging as consumers increasingly make environmentally conscious decisions regarding their purchases, notes Elopak.
US Dairy Sustainability Awards seeks nominees for 10 year anniversary class
The farmer-founded Innovation Center for U.S. Dairy is seeking nominations for its Class of 2021 at the U.S. Dairy Sustainability Awards, celebrating its 10 year anniversary.
Public calling for increased plastics recycling in the UK
New research shows that 91% of UK adults believe the importance of increasing the amount we recycle will grow over the next five years and that the key area to focus our efforts on is plastics recycling.
Ahead of the curve
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Diversey and Promar International launch global initiative to celebrate dairy industry
The ‘We Are Dairy’ initiative aims to recognise, celebrate and publicise the positive innovations, improvements and actions of the global dairy community.
Elopak records one billion natural brown board cartons
The volume of Elopak’s Natural Brown Board cartons will surpass one billion units in February 2021, the company reports.
Energy reduced in spray drying research
As part of an industrial joint research (IGF) project in Germany, a research team from University of Hohenheim has set the goal of significantly reducing the energy required for spray drying.
Harper Adams researches environmental impact of milk production by feeding lower protein diets
Researchers at Harper Adams University have been focussing on feeding home-grown forage legumes to cows in order to lower nitrogen output.
Fonterra and DSM join forces to lower carbon footprint
The new collaboration is based around DSM’s feed additive product Bovaer, which effectively and consistently reduces methane emissions from cows by over 30% in non-pasture-based farming systems.
Ingredia receives EY Food Industry Award 2021
Ingredia has received the award for social and environmental commitment as part of the trophies of the 5th edition of the EY Food Industry Award 2021 in partnership with the National Association of Food Industries (ANIA).
International FoodTec Award 2021 winners announced
The DLG (German Agricultural Society) has announced the 20 recipients of the International FoodTec Award for pioneering development in terms of innovation, sustainability and efficiency.
Business & trade, Dairy processing, Ingredients, Packaging, Sustainability
Andechser Scheitz initiates climate farmer project
In Germany the Andechser Scheitz dairy has initiated its KlimaBauer (climate farmer) project, where organic dairy farmers, with the support of the dairy, develop and implement measures to avoid producing and to bind carbon dioxide.
Too Good To Go partners with UK’s biggest brands to tackle food waste
Too Good To Go has partnered with brands including Arla, Bel Group, Danone and Emmi to tackle date label confusion and help eliminate food waste.