Yesterday, the Moerdijk Port Authority announced the second company to be part of the new Logistics Park Moerdijk (LPM) in the Netherlands. Lidl signed on to develop a distribution center (DC) of more than 200,000 m2 on a 35-hectare plot. The supermarket chain already has several logistics
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Votech announced today the grand opening of their newly expanded manufacturing facility and company headquarters in Reusel, The Netherlands. This marks the completed integration of two renowned players in the packaging industry, Fischbein International and Votech, who came together in 2021
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BASF presents the latest additions to its portfolio of crop protection products, seeds, traits and digital solutions, which aim to provide farmers with tools to control local and typical pests of some cropping systems and to respond to

their needs.
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Sustainability is on everyone's lips. The fashion industry also wants to take advantage of this and use sustainable materials. The question is: Would consumers also buy them? The doctoral student Xin Gao will start at the beginning of April with a study on the acceptance of backpacks made of pineapple leaves.
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As in previous weeks, domestic Elstar, Jonagold, Royal Gala and Braeburn from the domestic CA warehouses dominated the market. Boskoop and Pinova followed in terms of importance, while Wellant and other club varieties reduced their presence somewhat. Italy, according to BLE, primarily sent over
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Food safety solutions specialist Ammeraal Beltech has introduced the Ultrascreen PRO for fruit and vegetable processing. read more

The challenges of the past year are far from over, and that is reflected in the agenda for Global Tomato Congress, which is back in Rotterdam on 16 May with a programme filled with talks and discussions about how to safeguard the future of the fresh tomato business. read more

Superplum is addressing food safety and sustainability with a new table grape offering for the Indian market.  read more

A Ukrainian farmer named Viktor Shuleshko rebuilt his vertical farm business after it was destroyed by Russian troops shelling the Dnipro airport. Despite the damage, he did not give up on his dream of growing plants using vertical farming technology. Now, he has set up a new farm in the
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‘Standing still is moving backward', Dutch transportation business owner Dirk Veldhuis, who died in 2021, used to say. His daughter Natascha has taken that to heart. She and co-owner Mario Groot - who, after years in the transport business, joined the company in May 2022 - run Veldhuis
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In January, the People’s Republic of China (PRC) National Health Commission (NHC), Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs and State Administration of Market Regulation jointly announced the publication of a new National Food Safety Standard for 112 Maximum Residue Limits in foods. The
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In our newsmail of 29 March, we reported that the interest group of Latin American banana producers had criticised a price promotion by Lidl Germany for Rainforest Alliance-certified bananas. This, according to the Latin American position,
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On the occasion of the results of the coalition committee of the traffic light coalition, BGL board spokesman Prof. Dr. Dirk Engelhardt has commented on the effects of this decision on the freight transport and logistics sector. read more

Bison by REV Packaging Solutions, precisely conceived for the filling of punnets, combined with the specific denester-filler, is a weigher designed in the name of innovation (and not surprisingly subject of international patent). It represents a constantly evolving project come, by now, to its
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For the control of fire blight (Erwinia amylovora) on pome fruit, the Federal Office of Consumer Protection and Food Safety (BVL) has granted an emergency authorisation for the plant protection product LMA. read more

Hectre, double award winners in the AgTech Breakthrough Awards, have announced that their latest innovation, the Spectre for Pears early fruit sizing app, has now been released to the market. read more

The Scales Corporation gas issued a press statement, saying: read more

Chilean fruit processing and packaging company Crisanto has harnessed the power of Reemoon’s latest artificial intelligence-powered apple defect sorting system. read more

For 40 years now, Frischezentrum Essen has been located in Lützowstrasse in Essen's northern quarter. On a good nine hectares, the entire product range - fruit and vegetables, meat, fish, as well as packaging and catering supplies - can be found in one concentrated location. Modern sales,
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Signor Datterino is the new consumer brand identifying the date tomato developed by Bayer, through its Vegetables seed division. The project was presented at Cibus Connecting Italy 2023. A project that brings value to the entire supply chain read more