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Dohler

Building a Resilient Chocolate Future 

Kerstin Bergander-Kleinert, Head of BU CNP, Döhler Group, explores cocoa alternatives, ingredient innovation and building greater resilience across confectionery production. 
Cargill Istanbul

Cargill Highlights Functional Systems

Cargill is highlighting its functional systems and application expertise as confectionery manufacturers look to balance changing consumer expectations with product quality, production efficiency and cost pressures.
Nura

AAK Begins Nura Specialty Fats Plant

AAK and Kuala Lumpur Kepong Berhad (KLK) have started construction of a new specialty palm fractions plant in Pasir Gudang, Malaysia, through their Nura Specialty Oils and Fats joint venture.
Asian woman going to the supermarket to buy supplies

Prosur Targets Clean Label Formulations

Prosur will showcase its natural ingredient technologies at FI Asia in Jakarta, highlighting how food manufacturers can respond to growing consumer scrutiny of additives, preservatives and highly processed formulations.
Roquette Confectionery

Roquette Targets Sugar-Free Confectionery

Roquette has published new market insight examining how confectionery manufacturers could develop sugar-free gum and mint products around changing consumer expectations, rather than relying primarily on traditional impulse-purchase occasions.
Sweets Box

BENEO Launches Sugar-Free Sweets Concept

BENEO, a manufacturer of functional ingredients for food, feed and pharma, is set to inspire confectionery manufacturers with its latest innovations in sugar-free hard boiled candies, placing Isomalt firmly in the spotlight.
GRA Utra

GRA Nutra Introduces Clean-Label Colours

GRA Nutra AG introduces AuraBC™, a natural, clean-label, beta-carotene food colour derived via non-GMO fermentation technology. AuraBC™ provides warm yellow-to-orange tones to a broad spectrum of food and beverage applications.
NextCoa North America

Cargill Brings Cocoa-Free Chocolate to North America

Cargill and Voyage Foods are bringing NextCoa™, an award-winning confectionery alternative to chocolate, to North America, starting in the United States.
Manus

Manus and Tate & Lyle launch sweetener brand

Manus, the bioalternatives scale-up platform, and Tate & Lyle PLC (Tate & Lyle), a global provider of ingredient solutions for healthier food and beverages, today announced the launch of Yume™, a new brand under The Sweetener Alliance.
Win-Win

Win-Win & Keylink Partner

Win-Win, creator of the UK’s first cocoa-free alternative to chocolate, today announces an exclusive UK distribution partnership with Keylink, a leading supplier of chocolate, cocoa products and ingredients to chefs, chocolatiers and bakers.
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