Johnnie Walker in Edinburgh is inviting guests to discover Johnnie Walker x Scott Naismith, a Generative AI-powered experience that allows users to co-design a personalised bottle of Johnnie Walker Blue Label. Running for a limited time across the month of August in 2024, the experience is powered by ‘Project Halo’ and allows visitors to co-create personalised label designs/product artwork. Visitors will be prompted to answer three simple questions that will influence key themes in Scottish artist Scott Naismith’s work, ultimately impacting their bottle design. The simple prompts will generat ..read more

The T 305 traysealer from MULTIVAC is suitable for the automated packaging of small to medium-sized batches. It is designed for quick product changes in the food area and is suitable for use in supermarkets, commercial kitchens and industry. The compact traysealer is suitable for a wide range of applications: whether ready meals, snacks or meat, sausage products, cheese, fish, or fruit and vegetables. With a format width of up to 420 x 300 mm, cardboard, plastic and aluminium packaging as well as packaging made of foamed materials with different upper webs can be processed. Sustainable packagi ..read more

There has been a rise in adopting plant-based foods in diets worldwide; however, producers face a challenge in finding the right flavour for their products, as nearly half (46%) of plant-based meat consumers say they are looking for a ‘real meaty taste’. NTU Singapore and food ingredients company Bunge are now collaborating to produce new food flavours through fermentation, including umami, or savouriness, one of the five basic tastes. Umami, which means ‘pleasant savoury taste’ in Japanese, is recognised scientifically as one of the five basic tastes along with sweet, sour, bitter and salty ..read more

The Neousys NRU-230V-AWP is an IP66-rated waterproof computer, powered by the NVIDIA Jetson AGX Orin SoM, designed for rugged edge AI applications in harsh environments. The robust device is suitable for use in roadside monitoring, food and chemical factories, mining, construction, agriculture and harbours. The device has up to 275 sparse TOPS (INT8) AI inference capability and can transcode up to 22 1080P video streams simultaneously. It supports 8x GMSL2 automotive cameras through FAKRA Z connectors, 4x PoE+ GbE and 1x 10GbE ports via M12 X-coded connectors. Suitable for vision-based AI appl ..read more

A fourth-generation fruit producer, Queensland’s Piñata Farms, has been inducted into the Queensland Business Leaders Hall of Fame for outstanding leadership and innovation in Australia’s food production industry spanning more than 60 years. Piñata Farms began with a single 26-hectare pineapple farm, growing fresh and cannery fruit at Wamuran, north of Brisbane, in the 1960s. In the 1990s, Piñata pineapples were among the first to be sent to market without tops — now an industry standard. Today, Piñata Farms is claimed to be Australia’s largest pineapple producer, and a leading multi-fru ..read more

The Food Ministers’ Meeting met on 25 July 2024 in Adelaide to consider food regulation and policy matters. One of the key outcomes from the meeting was about the Health Star Rating (HSR) system. In May 2024, ministers expressed their disappointment in the uptake of the HSR system. The results are significantly off-track to reach the final target by the end of 2025 — ie, 70% of intended products apply an HSR by 14 November 2025. In 2020, the food industry set itself a target to get ratings on 60% of intended products by 14 November 2024 but currently only 32% of products carry the rating ..read more

Sidel’s StarLITE-R Nitro is a bottle base that can be used by manufacturers of nitrogen-dosed still beverages and edible oils. Following industrial testing, the design is both compatible with any existing bottle shape and is simple to blow and shape, even at high production speeds with 100% rPET ..read more

How can breweries leverage their existing equipment to distil spirits such as whisky, vodka and gin? Briggs, a sister company of Ziemann Holvrieka, has developed the BrewStillery for this purpose, which has been recently used at a brewery in Texas to produce its own whiskey in addition to beer. Many beer brewers are broadening their range and are also entering the distilled spirits market with their own products. This is a trend that is becoming increasingly apparent. In the US in particular, distilled beverages such as whisky, vodka and gin are challenging beer’s market share. To support bre ..read more

The Secunorm Multisafe No. 815219 safety knife is now available with an unpainted handle. Its zinc handle ensures good durability, paired with a robust design. Made from solid zinc die casting, the versatile safety knife can cut through all standard materials such as 3-ply cardboard, rubber, leather and more. Featuring an extended blade and automatic blade retraction, the knife’s special feature is its metal-detectable properties and traceability. This is designed to ensure that, in the unlikely event of breakage, fragments are easily identifiable, reducing the risk of contamination in sensiti ..read more

From mid-July to December, the Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics and Sciences (ABARES) will embark on its annual farm survey program collecting data and interviewing around 1900 farmers across Australia. The findings aim to support decision-making about the future of Australian agriculture. Two surveys will be conducted: the Australian Agricultural and Grazing Industries Survey and the Australian Dairy Industry Survey. The interviews will cover questions about farm structure, land use and the production and economic profile of the farm business for the 2023–24 financial ..read more