Lareka

Lareka highlights key seasonal opportunities from multi-size bar manufacturing

Netherlands-based packaging machinery business Lareka has encouraged manufacturers to make us of multiple-sized bar options, which its lines can readily enable for major seasonal occasions including Christmas, writes Neill Barston.

Exclusive extended feature: ProSweets Cologne 2024, editor’s preview

This year’s ProSweets offers an eclectic mix of exhibitors, as the event returns to its full strength after a shortened version last year, as Confectionery Production’s editor, Neill Barston discovers with this extended preview of the show

ProSweets 2022 event review

Editor Neill Barston speaks exclusively to some of the key ProSweets exhibitors at the 2022 event, which returned against the odds amid a major spike in the coronavirus pandemic in Germany. We speak to Markus Rustler, CEO, Theegarten-Pactec, Cameron Gilchrist, Baker Perkins, Linda Mather of MacIntyre, Christoph Krombholz of LoeschPack, Paul Jeanneret, CEO GR Confectionery, Ruben Taks, of Lareka and Stuart Grogan from BCH.

Business news, Cocoa & chocolate, Food safety, Ingredients, New products, Packaging, Processing, Regulatory, Sustainability

Video exclusive: ProSweets 2022 event review

Against the odds, this year’s ProSweets event in Cologne proceeded as planned, with a wide range of industry innovation on show for the confectionery and snacks sectors, as editor Neill Barston reports in our exclusive video review.

Business news, Cocoa & chocolate, Food safety, Ingredients, New products, Packaging, Processing, Regulatory, Sustainability

Lareka unveils personalised chocolate concept for premium confectionery market

Netherlands-based Lareka Confectionery Equipment has claimed a key breakthrough for the confectionery sector with its personalised chocolate concept, offering an end-to-end production solution.

Business news, Cocoa & chocolate, New products, Packaging, Sustainability

ProSweets delivers a host of systems and equipment solutions

This year’s ProSweets in Cologne delivered a number of key sector launches from around the world, and proved one of the last major events in the sector before the Coronavirus forced cancellation of a number of global trade shows. Neill Barston reported on the key in event in Germany

Business news, Cocoa & chocolate, Ingredients, New products, Packaging, Processing, Sustainability

ProSweets 2020

Confectionery Production reports on ProSweets 2020 in Cologne, Germany. Editor Neill Barston speaks to Henk Somers, MD of Lareka, Stuart Grogan, operations director of BCH and Dave Symonds, regional sales manager for Baker Perkins.

Business news, Cocoa & chocolate, Ingredients, New products, Packaging, Processing

Wrapping systems tackle major industry production challenges

Confectionery Production discusses the latest developments in wrap packaging systems and how to invest in an uncertain global marketplace. Daisy Phillipson reports

Business news, Cocoa & chocolate, Food safety, New products, Processing, Sustainability

Survey highlights urgent need for more environmentally friendly packaging

The results of a new survey showing that consumers in the UK would favour a tax on plastic packaging perhaps comes as little surprise.

Business news, Packaging, Sustainability

Events

Wed

19

Mar

World Cocoa Foundation Partnership Meeting

The World Cocoa Foundation’s latest partnership meeting is being staged at a notably challenging point for the sector, which is amid a particularly turbulent period of supply chain challenges that will come under the microscope during the event.

Being held in Sao Paulo, the meeting will feature some of the sector’s most respected names, offering insights into how combined solutions can be formed for the industry’s future.

Thu

11

Sep

World Confectionery Conference

Our fifth edition of the World Confectionery Conference is set to make a notable return to Brussels, Belgium for 2025, after successful celebrations for Confectionery Production magazine’s 90th anniversary for the 2024 edition. The event will cover the full spectrum of the industry, from finished product advancements, through to equipment, systems and ingredients topics, as well as key industry trends that are shaping the sector. For updates, follow the website confectioneryconference.com

Wed

29

Oct

Dairy Industries Expo

The Dairy Industries Expo is set to take place in 29-30 October 2025 at the NAEC Stoneleigh.

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