The Ainsley Harriott brand is to expand its current range of products with the market's first-ever soup product to be stored at ambient temperature and packaged in a tub design.

Everyone knows that the protein trend has gone beyond the tipping point, but there are many other growth opportunities powering the food and health market, according to 12 Key Trends 2014, the annual industry forecast authored by Julian Mellentin and published by New Nutrition Business

For our Best of 2013 feature, we want to share with you some of the highlights from this last year, in case you missed them.

Worldwide milk production is projected to jump 19% to 827 million tons by 2020, according to PMMI’s “Dairy Industry Marketing Assessment,” released in September at PACK EXPO Las Vegas 2013.

According to the Adhesive and Sealant Council’s most recent North American Market Report, the packaging sector makes up 59% of the market, with 4 billion pounds of product shipped in the North America (North America total market is 7 billion pounds).

In 1945, a self-taught radar tube specialist, Percy Spencer, began working on a new vacuum tube called a magnetron when he accidentally discovered microwave cooking.

Global plastics processing machinery demand is expected to advance 6.9% annually through 2017 to $37.1 billion. A healthier sales climate, resulting from accelerations in fixed investment spending and growth in the production of plastic goods, will spur gains.

Consumer packaged goods companies are underestimating the e-commerce channel’s growth potential and consequently may be missing out on a substantial market opportunity, according to the first of a two part Deloitte study, “Digital Commerce in the Supermarket Aisle.”

This year’s Trends Report from the Foodservice Packaging Institute reveals three key industry shifts.

World demand for aluminum (primary and secondary/recycled) is projected to expand 5.8 percent per year through 2017 to 82.5 million metric tons. Of the 20 million additional metric tons of demand in 2017, nearly 11.5 million metric tons will be accounted for by China.