Cans made of recycled aluminum scarp or stainless steel scrap in Dubai always work best for the beverage and food industry. They cool faster. Therefore they are great to be used as soda containers on a hot day. Cans are easier when it comes to transportation compared to glass bottles, as they are unbreakable. They are generally designed to be stacked very easily and conveniently. Thus they are being used to a great extent at the Dubai Shopping Festival 2010.

‘Did you know?

Steel and aluminum cans are containers that are most recycled.’

Recycling always creates a ‘win win’ situation for manufacturers and the environment. Manufacturers benefit through recycling because of lowered costs of production and of buying new metals. The act of recycling also helps the environment to stay clean and save on its natural resources.

Apart from providing many benefits to the beverage industry, cans made from scrap metals in Dubai also benefit the consumer to a great extent. Aluminum and steel cans protect the beverage or food stored inside very well. The quality of the food inside will be maintained to the extent of even tasting good, uniformly. So no matter where your canned fruits, vegetables, ready to cook meals, beverages, fish, etc. are coming from, you can mostly be rest assured that they would have been stored and transported to you in good conditions.

Besides, cans made from aluminum can be recycled by schools, clubs, organizations and people like you and me for a good cost. Learn more about how much revenue organizations collect by trading in metal scrap in Dubai by talking to the representatives at your local Dubai metal scarp yard.

Australia is one of the top generators of household waste in the world. Indeed, this country places among the top ten of OECD, or Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, countries when it comes to household waste productions. Interestingly enough, the food and beverage packaging industry helps to mitigate and lessen those numbers by a considerable degree. Indeed, packaging suppliers do their own part to help improve the health of the planet each and every day.

Waste In Australia -

In order to get a handle on the contributions that are made by the food packaging industry when it comes to waste in Australia, it helps to have a basic understanding of the numbers. Approximately 2.2 million tonnes of food waste is produced in this country each year. Were it not for food packaging suppliers, it would be considerably more. Each family in Australia generates about 400 kilograms of waste per year. These numbers definitely put Australia’s role in waste production into perspective.

Why Reducing Waste Is Important -

Most people realise that reducing waste is an important way to help save the planet. Reducing the amount of organic waste that’s found in waste streams is extremely critical, since doing so could reduce Australia’s greenhouse emissions by up to three percent. Additionally, reducing the waste could help reduce the size of landfills around the country. Unquestionably, waste reduction is extremely important – and the Australian food and beverage packaging industries are doing as much as they can to help.

What Is Saved Through Recycling?

Recycling is a core part of the food packaging industry’s philosophy. Considering all of the good that is accomplished by every household that recycles, it’s plain to see why this industry places such an emphasis on it. For every household that actively recycles, enough energy is saved to run a 40-watt light globe for about 72 hours. Over 90 litres of water are saved per week through such efforts, and about 3.6 kilograms of solid waste are saved per week as well. Every little bit definitely helps, which is why food packaging suppliers make sure to do their own part.

How Packaging’s Been Reduced -

As more and more emphasis is placed on waste reduction, the Australian food and beverage packaging industry have adapted numerous changes in order to help. For instance, the soft drink industry – that at one stage consumed approximately 453g of packaging in order to manufacture just one single litre of soft drink – has cut back considerably. Today, that industry only requires about 150 grams per litre of soft drink; that marks a 67% reduction, which isn’t an inconsiderable sum. As more and more changes like that occur in the packaging industry, waste reduction should accelerate by a very large amount.

Yet, Food Security has two dimensions, which includes availability of food and access to food and even as the former has been achieved, the same is not the case with the latter. Regardless of bumper crops, allocation of food grains continues to be faulty and almost 30 % of the food produced in the country is wasted. In such a situation, it is imperative that we reorient our historical agricultural policy framework, right from handling shortages to endorsing efficiencies and value addition. What’s more, there is a need to increase the range of foods available to improve overall nutrition. The advantages in terms of health, vitality and productivity are obvious and cannot be underestimated.

The promising sectors of the food market of India are inclusive of fruits and vegetables, milk and dairy products, grains, confectionary, fishing, meat and poultry, junk food, ready to eat meals, food additives and such. Another upcoming sector of the Indian Food Market is the segment dealing in healthy food and healthy food supplements. Along with this, the Food Retailing Sector is also a continuously growing market in our country. Although this is still in its inception, there is a wide scope for many large Indian corporates entering and extending their business. This mostly results in possibilities of new retail outlets like hyper and super markets that emerge country wide

Consequently, the low brand loyalty and price-sensitive consumer is putting off the Indian market from unfolding its full prospective. It will require balanced brand portfolio strategies, comprising of diverse product mix with a superb level of quality and that too at an affordable price. This is expected to result into an overall market progress in which the consumer will be benefited the most.

The Indian food market is approximately Rs 2, 50,000 crore ($69.4 billion), of which value-added food products comprise Rs 80,000 crore ($22.2 billion).

Growing economy, surplus food, shift in consumer consumption pattern, have put the Indian food industry on the fast track.

According to consultancy firm McKinsey & Co, the retail food sector in India in 2008 was worth US$ 70 billion, which will reportedly scale up to around US$ 150 billion by 2025. The world food industry would grow to US$400 billion from US$ 175 billion. This means, India’s food industry will form a major part of the world food industry.

RNCOS, an industry research firm, sometime back had released a new market research report titled “Indian Food, Beverages and Tobacco Market Forecast till 2011”.

The key findings of the report are as follows:

• Consumer spending on food, beverages and tobacco in India is estimated to grow at a CAGR of 12.2% during 2007 to 2011.
• The continually expanding Indian processed food market will catch the attention of foreign companies.
• Street hawkers will face stiff competition from fast-food outlets. • Consumption of soft drinks will accelerate from 11% during 2002 to 2006, to 12% during 2007 to 2011.
• Production of branded snack food is estimated to grow at an annual rate of 20% in upcoming 2-3 years
• The country has evolved into a big mart for whisky, so India will be significant global spirits market in the next 3-4 years.

India a Big Mart for Spices

Despite the so called recession, Indian spice producers are laughing their way to the banks, with spice exports from India being valued at over $11 billion, in 2008-09. India exported spices and spice products valued at US$ 1.02 billion. In 2007-08, India exported spices and spice products worth US$ 1.10 billion.

India a growing mart for Food Processing Industry

The food processing industry is steadfastly growing at 14 per cent as compared to 6-7 per cent growth in 2003-04. Moreover, the industry has reportedly received foreign direct investments (FDI) totaling US$ 143.80 million in 2007-08.

Notwithstanding its growth, India’s share in the exports of processed food in global trade is meager 1.5%; while the size of the global processed-food market is around US$ 3.2 trillion. This indicates, that both investors and exporters are yet to cash in on from the Indian food and processing industry.

Such being the situation, India has charted out stimulating strategies to double its processed food production by 2015, and therefore will be establishing 10 food technology parks in an attempt to achieve this.

A Mega Food Park under the Ministry of Food Processing has already been unveiled at Shirwal near Pune.

India a Big Mart for Snacks and Confectionery industry

The Indian Snacks and Confectionery industry is estimated to be worth US$ 3 billion. Segregated into organized as well as unorganized sector, the organized sector of the snack market is currently registering a growth rate of 15-20%, while the growth rate of the unorganized sector is around 7-8%.

India a Big Mart for the Dairy industry

As per 2007 estimates, the Indian dairy sector is worth US$ 62.67 billion. The sector has been growing at a rate of 5 per cent a year. The dairy exports in 2007–08 clocked US$ 210.5 million against US$ 113.57 last financial year, while the domestic dairy sector might cross US$ 108 billion by 2011.

India a Big Mart for the Beverage industry

Taking into consideration India’s speeding beverage mart, cold drinks giant Pepsico is gunning for India. As per the latest reports, the company plans to invest over $220 million to enhance its existing capacity.

The market for carbonated drinks in India is worth US$ 1.5 billion, while the juice and juice-based drinks market is worth US$ 0.25 billion. Fruit-drink market is growing at the rate of 25%. It is the one of the fastest growing in the beverage market. Sports and energy drinks too have a good market in India.

The market for alcoholic drinks has been growing consistently.

India a big mart for Food Chains and Restaurants

The food and grocery market in India is reportedly the sixth largest in the world, a prospect inspiring enough for big retail food chains to scale up their operations in India. As per the latest reports, McDonald’s is planning to open 40 new outlets across the country in Mumbai, Chennai and Hyderabad. At present, the company operates 160 outlets.

Food and grocery retail comprises 70 per cent of the total retail sales. And the good news is that this segment is growing at an unbelievable rate of 104 percent.

Even today, ninety nine of these segments are unorganized and therefore there is massive scope for growth especially for the organized sector. The organized food retail market comprises restaurants, fast food outlets, coffee houses etc.

Private fundings in the food industry

As per the latest reports the total amount of private investment in the food processing sector for the next three years will be around US$ 23 billion.

* Adani Wilmar, the owner of Fortune edible oil brand, plans to invest close to US$ 199 million in soya and mustard oil projects.
* Reliance Industries Ltd will probably invest US$ 1.25 billion in a dairy project.
*Government Initiatives to boost India’s prospect at the global level
* Food processing industries have been listed as one of priority sectors for bank lending.
* Zero excise duty on fruit and vegetable processing units
* Foreign equity up to 100 per cent is permitted for most of the processed food items
* Zero excise duty on items like fruits and vegetables products, condensed milk, ice cream, meat production.
* The excise duty on ready to eat packaged foods and instant food mixes has been brought down to 8 percent from 16 percent.
* Excise duty on aerated drinks has been brought down to 16 per cent from 24 per cent.

There is no need to explain the meaning of the word ‘Fast-Food’ or to specify the things coming under his type of food as everyone is very-well aware of this. Today moving with the wheels of time every elder and older one is enjoying this ‘Fast-food’.

This food is most common among the youngsters these days. It was the most popular food amid the children in United State previously, but it has become famous and favorite throughout the whole world very rapidly. Right from the 2 year kid to the 60 years old granny enjoy this delicious and affordable food as today it’s just a phone call away from our tongue any time in a whole day, which makes this affordable for our precious time. Consumption of fast-food is highly prevalent in both genders, all racial or ethnic groups, and all regions of the country. This shows that not any class or age group or region is untouched by this health evil called Fast-food.

Though this food is good for our time and tongue, is not good for our health. It is not nutritionally balanced and hence unhealthy when consumed frequently in the long run. This kind of food is loaded with colossal amount of calories as contain refined sugar & fats and is also very high in sodium. Except all these, this food is poor in dietary fiber and essential nutrients like vitamins and minerals.

On the top of all above drawbacks one more thing is there to add in the list, is that this delicious but unhealthy food is a kind of additive, on which one get hooked and keeps consuming in an uncontrolled way in spite of knowing its hazards for our health. All this makes us difficult, to go for the healthy food, according to the researches conducted regarding the effects of Fast Food. The researches also tell that fast food endorse positive energy balance into us, which results in the weight gain and gifts us obesity.

The high amount of sodium present in most of these foods increases the risks of high blood pressure and also leads to build up the body-fluids in case of people who are suffering from congestive heart failure, kidney diseases. Along with all this, the variety of dishes or stuffs comes under this type Fast food cause many health hazards among adults as well as children.