Bioeconomy Strategy Update can be a Game-Changer — PRESS RELEASE — 8 November 2018 Brussels, Belgium - Starch Europe hosted its annual conference November 6, on the theme Innovating Together for a Sustainable Food System: meeting tomorrow’s demands on our agricultural resources. The high-level event, held at the Bibliothèque Solvay in Brussels, saw distinguished speakers [...]
3rd StarchWorld Europe 09-10 Oct, 2018 - Strasbourg, FRANCE Sofitel Strasbourg Grande Ile What are the evolving usage and trade trends for tuber starches and how do they compete? Major food manufacturers are preferring cost-effective acid-modified potato starch as an alternative gelling agent to replace materials such as gelatine and regular starch. Besides potato [...]
EU Sugar and Isoglucose Production Quotas ended on 30 September 2017. At its conference at the Bibliothèque Solvay in Brussels on 17 October, Starch Europe called on all stakeholders to embrace the benefits of this historic development. 120 EU officials, representatives of sugar and isoglucose producers, food manufacturers, trade associations and NGO's attended and discussed [...]
PRESS RELEASE EU sugar and isoglucose production quotas ended on 30 September 2017. At its conference at the Bibliothèque Solvay in Brussels on 17 October, Starch Europe called on all stakeholders to embrace the benefits of this historic development. Speaking at the conference, Starch Europe president, Alain Dufait said ‘As an industry, we find ourselves [...]
At an event hosted by MEP Jim Nicholson and sponsored by Starch Europe, decision-makers and stakeholders from both side of the Atlantic discussed what it would take to establish a fair level playing field in the agri-food sector when trade of agricultural raw materials and transformed products, such as ethanol and starch, is liberalised.