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Unilever agrees to sell global Skippy business to Hormel Foods
3 January 2013 | By Unilever
Unilever has signed a definitive agreement for the sale of its global Skippy business to Hormel Foods...
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Implementation of removing trans fatty acids originating from PVHO
6 November 2012 | By Sergey Melnikov, Lead Technologist and Oil Processing and Fat Blends Team Leader and Hans Zevenbergen, Nutrition & Health Europe and Cross-Category Nutrition & Health Director, Unilever
Trans fats (also known as trans fatty acids, or TFA) are formed in the digestive system of ruminants. In the food industry, a similar process called ‘partial hydrogenation’ is used to convert vegetable oils into solid fats for enhanced functionality and shelf life stability. The main sources of TFA in…
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Unilever announces new initiative in progress to helping 1 billion people improve their health and wellbeing
15 October 2012 | By Unilever
New initiative to bring handwashing with soap to the Millennium Villages...
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Collaborate to Innovate: Unilever seeks help with new technical challenges to support sustainable growth
10 October 2012 | By Unilever
Company’s new Open Innovation portal receives over 1000 ideas after six months...
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Unilever and Save the Children launch global partnership
14 September 2012 | By Unilever
The partnership aims to save millions of lives among young children and mothers in China, Nigeria, Bangladesh and Kenya...
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Packaging & Automation Supplement 2012
5 July 2012 | By Louis Lindenberg, Wayne Daley
Focusing on packaging: the Unilever Sustainable Living Plan (Louis Lindenberg, Global Packaging Sustainability Director, Unilever)Next generation automation systems for food production (Wayne Daley, Principal Research Engineer, Georgia Tech Research Institute)
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Membrane and microchannel emulsification
4 July 2012 | By Dr Henelyta Ribeiro, Global Project Leader, Unilever
The production of emulsions with very low mechanical stress and a lower energy input than conventional mechanical methods have been developed in recent years and will be presented in this overview, the so-called membrane and microchannel emulsification. They are efficient processes due to their operational flexibility, reproducibility, straightforward upscaling and…
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Unilever leads call on food security at G20 Summit
26 June 2012 | By Unilever
CEO Paul Polman is spearheading a group of business leaders, calling for action on food security...
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Unilever and UNICEF partner to help bring sanitation to over 400,000 people
18 June 2012 | By Unilever
The Unilever Foundation and Domestos have joined forces with UNICEF...
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Diageo tops food and beverage sector in latest FTSE4GOOD ethical investment index
18 June 2012 | By Diageo
Diageo has further strengthened its sustainability credentials...
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Unilever CEO Paul Polman: innovation will be critical to driving mass behaviour changes
12 June 2012 | By Unilever
Unilever brings together behaviour change experts at new Vlaardingen symposium...
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Unilever Supply Chain breaks into world top 10
22 May 2012 | By Unilever
The result is Unilever’s best-ever performance in the index and an improvement of five places compared with 2011...
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Long term supplier partnerships key to Unilever Sustainable growth strategy
4 May 2012 | By Unilever
Unilever signed its thirtieth strategic supplier partnership to support the company’s sustainable growth ambitions...
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Were ancient plants more nutritious?
11 April 2012 | By Unilever
New scientific consortium goes back in time to inspire the next generation of naturally healthy food and drinks...
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Unilever continues to invest in Colombia to increase capacity for growth
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Unilever plans state-of-the art Laundry manufacturing and distribution facilities to drive growth...
