PulPac and PA Consulting announce Bottle Collective to minimise single-use plastic waste

02-Mar-2023

PA Consulting (PA), the consultancy that’s bringing ingenuity to life, and PulPac, the Swedish R&D and IP company behind the proprietary production process of Dry Molded Fiber, have launched the Bottle Collective. The Collective will create a fiber bottle alternative to help minimise the use of ...

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12-Dec-2022

The availability of foods based on plant proteins to substitute for meat has increased dramatically as more people choose a plant-based diet. At the same time, there are many challenges regarding the nutritional value of these products. A study from Chalmers University of Technology in Sweden now ...

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21-Oct-2022

Food lies at the heart of both health and sustainable development. This year’s Uppsala Health Summit takes on the challenges associated with our food systems and how to make them healthier, more inclusive, equitable and sustainable. Uppsala Health Summit will discuss practical solutions for the ...

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12-Sep-2022

Halting deforestation will require a step-change in approach, and to be effectivemeasures must address underlying and indirect roles of agriculture, says study. A new study published today in leading journal, Science, finds that between 90 and 99 percent of all deforestation in the tropics is ...

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20-Jul-2022

AAK AB (publ.) has decided to invest in Green-On, a food tech start-up company in Gothenburg, Sweden, whose concept is based on the so-called Power-to-X technology. With this technology, the aim is to create raw materials – in this case oils and fats for food and other applications – directly ...

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29-Jun-2022

In the meat industry, it’s common practice to turn the whole animal into food products. In the fish industry, over half of the weight of the fish ends up as side-streams which never reach our plates. This takes a toll on the environment and is out of step with Swedish food and fisheries ...

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23-Jun-2022

The Absolut Company, part of Pernod Ricard, is working with Blue Ocean Closures (BOC), a start-up based in Sweden, to develop an innovative natural fibre-based closure cap for Absolut Vodka’s iconic bottle. Made from bio-based materials, the cap’s pioneering design reduces the amount of plastic ...

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The new nano-sensors employ a 1970s discovery

08-Jun-2022

Researchers at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden have developed a tiny sensor for detecting pesticides on fruit in just a few minutes. The technique, described as a proof-of-concept in a paper in the journal Advanced Science, uses flame-sprayed nanoparticles made from silver to increase the signal ...

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09-May-2022

Swedish company Melt&Marble, which uses precision fermentation to produce customized fats for the plant-based sector, has created a non-animal fat with the properties of beef fat. Since the technology can also be used to produce other animal fats, this could be a real game changer in sustainable ...

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Marie Samuelsson has been appointed CEO of Ecolean following Peter L Nilsson’s planned retirement after more than 15 years in the company, in June 2022

19-Apr-2022

Marie Samuelsson will assume the CEO role on 1 June 2022 and brings several decades of industry and senior leadership experience to her new position. Most recently, Marie worked as Market Region Manager at ASSA ABLOY, an access solutions supplier. Prior to that she held the position of Senior ...

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