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Plant openings and expansions in food and beverage manufacturing.

In a partnership with WestRock and Grupo Gondi, Grupo Modelo is investing roughly $4 million in the sustainable, fiber-based CanCollar Eco solution in Quintana Roo, a Mexican state on the Yucatan Peninsula. 

The Interagency Food Safety Analytics Collaboration (IFSAC)—a collaboration between the CDC, FDA and FSIS—has published its priorities for this year and next.

While food and beverage processors have been scrambling to protect their process control equipment, intellectual property (IP) and IT/OT systems from cybersecurity/ransomware attacks, their efforts may be outpacing the Federal Government, which should be setting an example by having secured its own agencies from cyberattacks.

According to a report by research firm MarketsandMarkets, the global Corrugated Box Market size was estimated at US $67.6 billion in 2021 and is projected to reach $80.8 billion by 2026, at a CAGR of 3.6%.

Fermented Food Holdings (FFH), established in late 2021, has acquired fermented-food brands Wildbrine and Bubbies. The fermented-foods category is expanding rapidly, expected to reach 10% CAGR by 2025.