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Ice cream sales are up, novelties are melting

The ice cream category shows sales up slightly, but frozen novelties are struggling.

August 20, 2013

Summertime is the ultimate season for ice cream companies and some showed positive sales numbers heading into summer. But still many struggled, and with the exception of a couple bright stars, the frozen novelties segment showed sales numbers dropping across the board.

Ingredients

BASF creates a CLA Power Mix prototype developed to reduce body fat

August 16, 2013

BASF Nutrition & Health featured its Tonalin CLA Power Mix prototype developed to reduce body fat at July’s IFT show.

Sweeteners

JK Sweet sucralose featured at this year’s IFT show

August 14, 2013

JK Sucralose featured its JKSweet product at this year’s IFT show in July.

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GNT’s Exberry natural colors featured at IFT

August 13, 2013

GNT featured Exberry natural colors at this year’s IFT.

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Teawolf’s Hibiscus extract can be used in ice cream, beverages

August 9, 2013

Teawolf’s Hibiscus extract is useful in many applications, including energy drinks, smoothies, ice creams, sorbets and iced teas.

Packaging

Packaging for ice cream, dairy products

Piber Group of Italy is an integrated manufacturer of packaging equipment and plastic packaging for food.

August 8, 2013

Piber Group consists of nine companies, including Stamplast and Piberplast (injection molding), Alipack (packaging machines for food and beverage) and Lampografica (offset printing of paper and PP labels for in-mold labeling and glue applications).

ADI Systems' wastewater treatment technologies helpful to dairy processors

August 8, 2013

ADI Systems has wastewater treatment technologies to help dairy processors, including anaerobic treatment.

Alternative energy

Cheesemaker turns waste whey into energy

A Wisconsin cheese producer is utilizing a two-stage digestion process to convert its high-strength waste to biogas while reducing the cost and liability associated with using land application methods to handle its high-strength wastes.

August 1, 2013

Anaerobic treatment technologies are a cost-effective means of managing high-strength organic wastes, while avoiding expensive treatment costs imposed by municipalities and contending with increasingly strict environmental regulations

People

Robertet Flavors, Mocon, Netzsch Pumps announce personnel moves

Robertet Flavors appointed Martin Ongteco as vice president-innovation.

August 1, 2013

Suppliers announce personnel moves, including Chuck Yarris joining Quality Chekd Dairies as director of quality and food safety. He replaces Dan Stockwell, who retired after 22 years of service.

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