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Food safety and flour quality used to be discussed mainly in the language of audits, laboratory results and regulatory compliance. Those elements still matter, but they no longer describe the full commercial importance of the subject. For a modern mill, the ability to deliver safe, traceable and consistently performing flour affects customer retention, access to export markets, raw material choices and the cost of daily operations.

Bühler Group, a global leader in processing equipment for food, feed, and advanced materials, is launching its new generation of extrusion systems.

The pandemic, the climate crisis, the Ukraine-Russia war, and other triggering factors have hit the food industry and food security. The successive effects made the sustainability of food questionable. It is an inevitable fact that measures for the production and logistics of food, the world's largest economic cycle, have to be taken as soon as possible.

AAK (publ.) has decided to temporarily halt deliveries to, and sales in, Russia. Even though AAK is a supplier in the food sector, which is not subject to sanctions, it has become very difficult to secure compliance to sanctions related to logistics and trade flows as well as third parties.