08 Aug 2024 --- Corbion has acquired the bread improver business from Novotech Food Ingredients, India, to expand its regional presence and diversify its portfolio. The move also grants Indian... Read More

28 Jun 2024 --- Consumers today crave unique and intense flavors in their sweets, such as sour candies, says Willy van Arkel-van Arendonk, senior manager of Business Development & Product... Read More

29 May 2024 --- Health-conscious consumers prefer minimally processed foods with recognizable ingredients and in the realm of health and natural food preservation, there is a notable shift toward... Read More

12 Apr 2024 --- Netherlands-based food ingredient expert Corbion is working with manufacturers to expand enriched grains selection to include folic acid-fortified corn tortillas. Folic acid has... Read More

13 Mar 2024 --- In a time marked by heightened consumer consciousness surrounding health and wellness, the food manufacturing industry grapples with a pressing dilemma: meeting the demand for... Read More

24 Jan 2024 --- Corbion is making strides in food safety and shelf life extension, as well as innovating in the confectionery space with ingredients such as its Purac Powder MAX. We speak with Lonneke van Dijk, global senior director for food preservation and Willy van Arkel, senior manager of business development and product management, who discuss the topics in detail and the company’s growing ingredient portfolios.

20 Jan 2020 --- Corbion launches a range of new natural solutions to keep chilled food safer for longer. The Verdad portfolio uses natural processing like fermentation to protect food from food safety hazards such as listeria growth. The six new ingredients within its Verdad and PuraQ Arome portfolios, launched at Fi Europe 2019 in Paris, France, are all marketed as natural alternatives to ingredients like sorbates and benzoates. Simone Bouman, Senior Industry Director, Sweet & Savory Food at Corbion explains how the new ingredients can help manufacturers to create stable, safe and flavorful products.

26 Jan 2018 --- Corbion highlighted a new clean label natural preservation solution that eliminates the need for artificial preservatives such as sorbates and benzoates. At FiE 2017, FoodIngredientsFirst spoke with Willy van Arkel about the Verdad range, a tried, tested and trusted antimicrobial that keeps foods, such as salads, at their best for longer while also naturally enhancing the product’s flavor profile.

17 Aug 2017 --- SweetPro is Corbion’s newly launched emulsifier portfolio, which delivers outstanding aeration, emulsion stability and moisture retention in sweet baked goods for greater product consistency while helping bakers eliminate PHOs and reduce saturated fat. Jim Robertson of Corbion says: “SweetPro is targeted at the sweet goods market segment and it’s all about bringing the PGME [propylene glycol monoesters] building block to our portfolio. From that we are able to create a portfolio of downstream products that enhances the quality of the sweet goods, from production to consumption.” 

12 May 2016 --- Corbion Purac introduced its new Verdad Avanta solutions at IFFA 2016. Verdad Avanta Y100 is a patent-pending formula, labeled as vinegar and citrus fiber. Stephan Dobbelstein, Sales Development Manager, says it effectively delivers cook yield increase from 3-9% and improved texture and slice ability, while also extending shelf life and controlling Listeria in ready-to-eat meats. Verdad Avanta F100 is labeled as vinegar and jasmine tea extract (or natural flavor), and provides prolonged freshness in raw and processed meats like sausages. 

27 Oct 2015 --- The demand for processed meat is steadily increasing across the world. Driven primarily by the ever growing global population, higher disposable incomes and the trend towards high-protein diets, the processed meat market is expected to be valued at nearly $800bn by 2018.1 While there might be regional market differences when it comes to the type of meat consumed, shelf life is high on the agenda of every industrial meat processor. However, meat preservation is not an issue purely for the modern consumer and current food industry. People have been facing the problem of preserving meat for centuries to overcome periods of meat shortages. All that time, finding a solution that could preserve meat over longer periods of time, without negatively affecting its sensory attributes, has been a priority.

11 Jun 2014 --- Consumers demand for meat products to have labels with ingredients they recognize and understand. Verdad® is our range of label-friendly ingredients that are produced from nature's best raw materials and straightforward production methods. The Verdad portfolio has been specifically developed to help meeting the increasing demand for more simple and understandable labels (so called 'cupboard ingredients') and still enable food processors to produce high quality, safe and tasty food products.

Online tools can help consumers get inspired about food & beverage products, with social media playing a big part when it comes to plant-based innovation. There is a rise in food... Read More

19 Aug 2022 --- Finnish food industry giant Fazer began researching cell-based chocolate, which will cultivate confectionery ingredients without the need for traditional farming inputs. ADM and New Culture, an alternative dairy company, partnered to develop cow-free casein. Meanwhile, Corbion received a patent for a method for increasing the efficacy of vinegar-based preservation solutions.

17 Apr 2020 --- While the ongoing pandemic spurs a cataclysm of supply chain challenges, the global crisis is also pushing businesses toward previously unexplored digital solutions. Key agri-food suppliers Cargill and Agrocorp have teamed up with Rabobank to pilot blockchain for faster cross-continental commodity trading in five days, initially focusing on wheat. Other COVID-19 updates include how the EU dairy sector is slipping into a deepening crisis. As the demand for milk and milk ingredients has significantly dropped, produced milk volumes can no longer be absorbed, warn the European Milk Board.You can also follow our exclusive interviews with Corbion and Prova on how they are weathering the coronavirus storm, plus other industry news. 

09 Jan 2018 --- In November 2017, the management of ingredient supplier Corbion named “Creating Sustainable Growth” as its aim in its strategy update for the period 2018 to 2021. The new strategy aims to deliver higher organic sales growth of between 3 and 6 percent annually, as the company looks to evolve ever further beyond its traditional base of lactic acid and lactates. Illustrative of the company’s diversifying ingredient portfolio, last year Corbion acquired TerraVia for US$20 million, to acquire a broad and diverse platform centered on innovative food and specialty ingredients derived from microalgae. FoodIngredientsFirst spoke to Ruud Peerbooms, Senior Vice President for Food at Corbion about the current market environment and growth platforms for the company.

15 Dec 2016 --- Advertisements for food and drinks high in fat, salt or sugar aimed at children which run online, in print, on billboards and in cinemas are to be banned in the UK, under new rules. The rules are an effort to help combat rising childhood obesity, particularly in light of children spending more time online, but campaigners have criticized the measures of falling short and complain that the “power” rests in the “hands of manufacturers and advertisers, not parents.” Other companies mentioned are Olam, Coca-Cola, General Mills and Capsugel. 

23 Oct 2016 --- Nestlé chief executive Paul Bulcke stated that Brexit needed to take “shape” and “form” before the food giant would make any decision on its investment in the UK while saying the likelihood of a pricing spat would be down to individual markets. Nestlé cut its forecast for the year, saying that its full-year rise in sales would now be 3.5 percent, down from its previous forecast of 4.2 percent, amid price deflation in Europe and the US and a slowdown in growth in emerging markets. Other companies mentioned are Corbion, Chaucer, ADM and Danone.