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IZZ: market openings in sugar for MERCOSUR and for Australia

The ongoing high price phase for the raw material sugar indicates that the sugar supply in the EU is still extremely tight. From the perspective of the Info Centre for Sugar Users (IZZ), there is therefore a need for the EU to diversify the sources ...

 
 

Somic opens branch office in Bangkok

With the newly founded subsidiary Somic Packaging Asia Pacific Company Ltd. in Bangkok, the German packaging machine manufacturer Somic, based in Amerang in Bavaria, expanded its sales network from December 2023. The subsidiary in Thailand is an important building block in the development of Southeast ...

 
 

Weig Group makes sustainability a top priority

The Group, a provider of cardboard products and packaging as well as recycling services, has expanded its management to include the "Sustainable Market Orientation" division as of the fourth quarter of 2023. The aim of the newly created division is to bundle topics with overarching, ...

 
 

Amr Arafa

Amr Arafa (45) will take over the position of Chief Digital Officer of the Barry Callebaut Group from 15 January 2024. In this role, he will be responsible for building an agile and technology-based organisation at Barry Callebaut. The aim is to further drive forward ...

 
 

Martina Gaebler

Gaebler took over the position of Managing Director of the Forum Nachhaltiger Kakao e. V. on 1  November 2023, replacing Beate Weiskopf, who held this position for almost 10 years. Gaebler has many years of expertise in the field of sustainable value chains. She is looking ...

 
 

Björn Zeidler

Björn Zeidler started at Puratos GmbH in Düsseldorf on 1 November 2023. As the new Sales Director, he is responsible for the business development of all sales channels for Puratos Germany. Most recently, Björn Zeidler worked for the global cosmetics company L'Oréal as Director Sales ...

 
 

Peter Eisner

The deputy director of the Fraunhofer Institute for Process Engineering and Packaging IVV has been appointed honorary professor at the Technical University of Munich. The process engineering graduate had been a private lecturer for "Process engineering of plant-based raw materials" at the TUM School of ...