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FoodTech 2019
Every three years FoodTech Qld sets up in Brisbane to showcase the latest equipment, products and services in the food and beverage manufacturing sector. This year more than 130 exhibitors were there, with a series of seminars covering the future of food, the importance of digitalisation, waste an1d sustainability. Kim Berry was there.
HIGHGATE GROUP
For general manager Alister Joyce, the biggest change the team at food processing and packaging specialist Highgate has seen in the last five years is the embrace of technology. “Before that there was a lot of reticence and the mentality of ‘we’ve been doing it this way for years and it works, why would we spend money to change’? But now, people are seeing the outlay brings massive improvements in productivity and that the machinery can pay for itself in a matter of years,” Joyce says. Highgate’s stand featured its wrapping prowess and an intimidating knife-sharpening behemoth.
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Sustainability, retail and market director Alan Adams says new packaging developments have largely been incremental but sustainable packaging and its influence over food waste and product distribution is exciting. Sealed Air is part of the Global Alliance Against Plastics Waste, an alliance of roughly 30 companies which
the Cryovac HydroLoQ packaging Sealed Air has just introduced, with Aldi rolling it out in stores now. The packaging has a unique design that uses surface tension to draw and hold liquid away from the product, eradicating the need for absorbent pouches.
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2LUMIX
Two years young, Lumix Food Processing Solutions is the brainchild of Nathan Grange, a chef, and Anton Novopashin, an electrician. While importing hygiene and detectable brands Vama and Ilpra, Lumix is also the Australian distributor for Catalina ingredients and premixes from Spain. “The market has been saturated by big US barbeque flavours, so we were looking for a flavour range and functional offering that was a
SEALED AIR
engages the entire plastics value chain to find solu
tions for plastic waste. Sustainable elimination is a real goal, Adams says, pointing to