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Packaging
Food packaging under the lens: kp's Featherstone site on Dutch television
A Dutch sustainability television programme visited Klöckner Pentaplast's UK manufacturing site, examining the trade-offs involved in designing food packaging for performance, resource efficiency and end-of-life.

Funding & investment
Imperial launches accelerator to bridge sustainable food's lab-to-market gap
Imperial College London has launched a 12-month equity-free accelerator to help sustainable food ventures turn validated science into pilots, investment and commercial scale.

Summer 2026: What's driving bakery flavour and format trends
Finsbury Food Group's innovation and brand teams map the flavour combinations, formats and retail dynamics shaping bakery in summer 2026 -from cherry vanilla to GLP-1 portion trends.

Equipment
Dacke Industri acquires majority stake in Dutch bakery conveyor specialist
Swedish industrial group Dacke Industri has acquired 85% of Divardy Bakery Services B.V., a Dutch specialist in conveyor systems for industrial bakeries.

People
Lesaffre appoints Rania Abou Samra as new chief RD&I officer
Fermentation specialist Lesaffre has appointed Rania Abou Samra as its new chief research, development and innovation (RD&I) officer.

Events
Vertical farming and the bakery: What's the link?
Vertical farming won't grow your wheat, but it may grow your garnish. A look at where the economics actually work for industrial bakers.

Regulation
Lesaffre highlights global progress in baker’s yeast standardisation
A new Codex Alimentarius standard for baker’s yeast creates a global reference framework, supporting consistency, safety and transparency across the international baking industry.

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