Head for another breathtaking record: SIAL CHINA 2016 more international than ever

Asia’s largest food innovation exhibition will welcome 3,000 exhibitors and 66,000 trade visitors in Shanghai

Dragon Era: A taste for the exotic

Vietnam-based company prepares to export its dragon fruit concentrate writes Anthony Evans

ExxonMobil releases mPE resin for stronger shrink films

Enable™ 40-02 metallocene polyethylene (mPE) resin allows the creation of collation shrink films with enhanced stiffness, strength and holding force.

Trends in sports nutrition

Sports nutrition is proving to be a major contributor to the growing consumer health sector further boosted by the World Health Organization’s (WHO) call to curb obesity

Fruit flavored water from Malaysia

Spritzer’s mineral water is sourced from facilities located in a tropical rainforest in Perak, Malaysia

Small unmanned aerial sensor under development through ARPA-E

Heath Consultants Incorporated (Heath) in collaboration with Physical Sciences Inc. (PSI), is adapting the industry-leading laser-based Remote Methane Leak Detector (RMLD®) for mounting on the InstantEye® quadrotor Unmanned Aerial Vehicle.

NASA studies 3D printing for building densely populated electronics

As detector assemblies get smaller and denser -- packed with electronic components that all must be electrically connected to sense and read out signals -- it's becoming increasingly more challenging to design and manufacture these all-important instrument devices.

Special project supports Tanzanian cocoa farmers

Barry Callebaut, the Cocoa Horizons Foundation and Kim’s Chocolates together provide cocoa farmers and their communities with 130,000 seedlings, technical training and agricultural tools, as well as classrooms for their children

Portable gas detection market worth US$1.7M by 2023

The global portable gas detection equipment market had generated revenues of US$1,145.3 million in 2014; this is projected to expand at a CAGR of 4.8% during the forecast period (2015-2023) and reach US$ 1,737.3 million by 2023, according to ransparency Market Research.  

Growing application of smart smoke detectors

Rapid development in smoke detector technology along with IoT and big data technologies have led to the expansion of smart smoke detectors.

Top ten vendors in the global gas detectors market

All the top players have a large portfolio of industry-related equipment and services, which can be customized according to customers' requirements. These vendors have high capital resources and dedicated R&D funds for developing new technologies, according to Sunil Kumar Singh, lead analyst at Technavio.

Nestlé makes changes to ice cream brands

The company has eliminated artificial flavor and color, high fructose and GMO ingredients on six popular brands