News and industry insights on Chemical additives, ingredients, and processing aids for the food and beverage industry.
Reliable Caps and PureCycle launched closures made with PureFive Ultra recycled polypropylene for food and beverage uses, addressing PCR mandates. Supply is reinforced by PureCycle’s polypropylene recycling facility in Rayong admitted to Thailand’s FastPass. Stahl introduced Repura barrier coatings enabling recyclable, food‑contact paper packaging.
Symrise upgraded its Barcelona-area Food & Beverage site, adding large‑scale mixing and labs to speed prototyping and supply to Southern Europe, North Africa and the Middle East. It reported Q1 2026 organic sales −0.4%, with Food & Beverage up low‑single‑digit amid softer Care & Wellness and Aroma Molecules.
The EU’s Innovation Fund Heat Auction granted €400m to electrified heat for industry, including food & beverage off‑takers, targeting 16.3 TWh in five years. This aligns with BASF’s restructuring of the Ludwigshafen Verbund site and acknowledges the energy vulnerability of the Verbund model revealed by gas spikes.
BASF agreed to sell its silicates business to PQ after a Care Chemicals review. Q1 2026 showed resilient performance with solid volumes, lower prices in most segments, and currency headwinds; guidance was maintained as cost‑reduction and digitalization under Winning Ways proceed.
BASF Agricultural Solutions opened the BioHub fermentation plant in Ludwigshafen to produce biological crop‑protection actives. Starck International advanced a North Sea Port terminal consolidating residual food streams into animal feed and fermentation inputs. Regionally, seven multilateral development banks pledged support to address conflict‑related disruptions to energy, fertilizers and trade routes.
Top 5 companies involved as owner and/or investor in current and planned Food projects:
BASF , Bayer , Yara , Grupa Azoty , Solvay , Tessenderlo , dsm-firmenich , INEOS , Brenntag , and belaruskali .
