The Australian Institute of Packaging is holding a half-day event for anyone interesting in packaging operations and economics.

Bolzoni Auramo has acquired Eurolift in an effort to expand into the Australian market.

Innovative entries from students at Deakin University in Victoria and the University of Western Sydney in NSW have been chosen as finalists for the 2011 Australian Institute of Food Science and Technology Student Product Development Competition.

Australian inventions can be accessed online through AusPat, a database of patent records dating back to the first patent issued under Commonweath legistration.

More US sugar companies and trade associations have joined a lawsuit to stop the corn processors from marketing high-fructose corn syrup as a 'natural' product.

The Dow Chemical Company is doubling the staff of its packaging centre in Switzerland in order to expand the centre's capabilities for testing and prototyping adhesive laminating and film structure for food and beverage packaging needs.

A new version of a popular nutrient database used by consumers and researchers to find out what nutrients are in food has been launched.

The merger of Adept Electronic Solutions and Total Turnkey Solutions will create a leading machine vision industrial company, with a complementary portfolio of products, advanced technologies and enhanced growth opportunities.

Two of Australia's major retailers have been found by the NSW Food Authority to have falsely described the origin of fruit for sale in two Sydney stores.

The Dow Microbial Control Customer Application Center (CAC) has opened in Altona, Melbourne, allowing customers access to state-of-the-art testing laboratories and innovative formulations, in line with local regulatory requirements.

WorkCover NSW has published a safety alert to remind employers and those in control of workplaces to ensure the safety and stability of plenums, ceilings and other associated structures.

The Australian Institute of Packaging (AIP) is rerunning the half-day training course on the Introduction to Plastics on Thursday 4 August 2011. To be held at Oatlands Golf Course, NSW, the course presenter will be Pierre Pienaar FAIP.

The Australian Food and Grocery Council (AFGC) said it is disappointed that the federal government didn’t allocate any new funds for a National Food Plan in the 2011-12 Budget.

Woolworths store-baked soft white bread now contains 25% less salt and the company has also reduced salt in its wholemeal, grain and sourdough breads.

IFR has helped develop a tool for modelling the growth of Salmonella in the pork supply chain as part of an EU-funded research program investigating the main sources of contamination that cause human salmonellosis.