Outdoor apparel company  Patagonia  and circular fashion and textile technology group Infinited Fiber Company have signed a multiyear sales agreement for Infinited Fiber Company’s unique, premium-quality regenerated textile fiber Infinna™, which is created out of textile waste. The move marks a major milestone for both companies towards making textile circularity an everyday reality: The deal guarantees Patagonia access to the limited-supply fiber over the coming years and secures future sales income for Infinited Fiber Company as it ramps up production.

Entry into another growth market through cooperation with Avicanna Inc. (TSX: AVCN) Products with synergistic properties of MicroSilver BG and CBD (hemp derived) have been developed. Addressing dermatology and cosmetics markets with an initial focus on North America and Europe Nuremberg/Bremen, June 29 th 2021 – Bio-Gate AG (ISIN DE000BGAG981), a leading provider of innovative technologies and individual solutions for health and hygiene, has completed the initial development phase for prospective products through a licensing and development agreement with Avicanna Inc. (TSX: AVCN), a Canadian bio-pharmaceutical company, to enter the rapidly growing cannabidiol (CBD) market.

Performance, hygiene and simpler service are essential to hygienic processes. Yet manufacturers across the dairy, food, beverage, confectionery, and home-personal care industries must often compromise on one essential to achieve another. Not anymore. The new Alfa Laval DuraCirc® circumferental piston pump delivers it all:  robust design, high efficiency, and reliable operation; hygienic assurance with EHEDG as well as 3-A certification as standard; and, ease of maintenance.

A future where food packaging is more sustainable – and no longer contains aluminum – has moved a step closer, thanks to a major breakthrough in ongoing research involving AkzoNobel.

Pablo Barrera, EVP Communications & Procurement in Yara, is seconded to IMAGINE Food Collective, where he will work with leading global companies and stakeholders to help drive systemic change of the food value chain.

Connecting with passionate tech innovators is the goal of a new Paint the Future partnership between AkzoNobel and the “heart of tech”, TNW (The Next Web).

Styret i SalMar ASA har enstemmig vedtatt å gå videre med planene om å bygge en av verdens største og mest avanserte anlegg for produksjon av settefisk på Tjuin industriområde i Malm i Steinkjer kommune. Kombinert med selskapets smoltanlegg i Follafoss betyr dette at Steinkjer vil bli en verdensledende aktør og et viktig kompetansesenter i utviklingen av en stadig mer bærekraftig sjømatnæring.

Food production is responsible for a quarter of the world’s greenhouse gas emissions, but today it is estimated that approximately one third of all food produced globally is wasted. This significant number represents 8% of total global greenhouse gas emissions. 1 Packaging helps protect food from damage and spoilage from transport to storage and from stores to our homes. Packaging therefore ensures that the resources used to produce food, and the carbon footprint created, are not wasted.

The technology group Wärtsilä will supply its  Wärtsilä HY Module , a containerised hybrid battery power and energy storage system to Maersk Supply Service, the Denmark based provider of offshore marine services and integrated solutions for the global energy sector. The Wärtsilä system will support Maersk’s goal of reducing the carbon intensity of its fleet by 50 percent before the end of this decade. The order with Wärtsilä was placed in May 2021.

Huhtamaki, a global key advanced manufacturer of sustainable packaging solutions, is setting up a new manufacturing unit in KwaZulu-Natal in South Africa to serve its existing and new egg packaging customers in the KwaZulu-Natal area with a broad range of locally produced packaging solutions. The new facility will be located close to one of South Africa’s main export ports, enabling competitive exports of egg packaging for customers across East Africa.