The Belgian meat industry is traditionally structured into small units. Family-owned and operated companies are more like the norm, while corporations are the exception. Animal breeders, feeders, slaughterers and those involved in carcass cut-up used to serve as specialists whose...
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05.03.2010
Peter Huber (46) is the new Managing Director of the Schwäbisch Hall-based company that specializes in weighing and packaging technology. The industrial engineer was most recently the Managing Director of Linde Fördertechnik Kft. in Hungary. Hubert replaces Stefan Schiffer, who left Ishida for...
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05.03.2010
ES-Plastic (Passau, Germany) has developed a transparent ribbed tray of recyclable polypropylene for fine pasta creations, Swabian meat turnovers or meat dishes such as Zurich ragout. According to the manufacturer, the new pasta tray has a number of positive features: PP is absolutely taste-neutral,...
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05.03.2010
During the third quarter of 2009, 1.9 million tons of meat were produced; this was 1.8 percent more than in the same quarter of 2008. The rise was due to a distinct increase in poultry production. Germany’s Federal Statistical Office (Destatis) reports that between July and September 2009, poultry...
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