The machine is equipped with a? perforated basket and state-of-the-art technologies for tablet coating and optimized cleaning.

This will result in ?a coating performance superior to traditional technologies.

Fine Foods has launched a Lean Management program in the Pharma Quality Control lab of Nembro.

The Nembro lab carries out the analytical quality control tests on finished Pharmaceutical products manufactured by Fine Foods and on the raw materials used for Pharmaceutical productions.

The program will be implemented by Bonfiglioli Consulting, a leading organization in continuous improvement, with a solid experience in the application of Lean principles to the Pharmaceutical industry.

This initiative is part of the three-year program of substantial investments for Pharmaceutical  activities planned by Fine Foods.

Two robots have been donated by Fine Foods to Istituto Mario Negri, a leading biomedical research non-profit organization and have been installed in the laboratory of Ranica, close to Bergamo, Northern Italy.

During the ceremony of delivery of the equipment, Prof. Giuseppe Remuzzi, Coordinator of the laboratory, expressed his gratitude to Marco Eigenmann, President & CEO of Fine Foods, explaining how the two robots, by substantially decreasing the sampling speed of DNA tests, will help a faster accomplishment of their objectives.

The Ranica laboratory is a state-of-the-art research center focused on genetic alterations of DNA linked to rare diseases and kidney diseases.

 

On occasion of 2015 Extravaganza in Barcelona, Herbalife has introduced the new CR7 Sports Drink, developed in partnership with Cristiano Ronaldo.

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CR7 will be manufactured by Fine Foods in the Zingonia site and packaged in sachet and jars.

A fast approval of packaging artwork is a fundamental step to reduce the time-to-market of new products. FASTCHECK, the new web portal that Fine Foods makes available to customers, improves substantially the artwork approval flow, keeps track of changes and stores active files in an easily accessible database.

A new ALL FILL rotary fast filling line has been installed in Fine Foods’ site of Zingonia.

The line, equipped with the most advanced electronic devices for quality control, can fill up to 120 jars per minute of powdered food supplements in jars of approximately one liter.

This new investment further strengthens Fine Foods’ European leadership in the production of protein-based meal replacement powders.

Fine Foods will sponsor the Seminar “I Mille Volti della Nutrizione” (The Thousand Faces of Nutrition), held in the Bicocca University of Milan on September 18^th, 2015.

The program in Italian can be downloaded at the link: http://www.digitalforacademy.com/courses/mille-volti-della-nutrizione/

The Seminar will focus on topics related to Nutrition, Malnutrition and Food Supplements.

Fine Foods will be the Silver sponsor of XII IPLS (International Pharma Licensing Symposium), held in Berlin from September 16^th to 18^th, 2015.

The program can be downloaded at the link http://plg-group.com/wp-content/uploads/events/XII-IPLS-Berlin-Programme-May.pdf

Representatives from the most important Pharma companies will attend the Symposium.

 

Fine Foods has successfully passed a 4-pillar SMETA Ethical Trade audit with zero non-conformity.

The audit, carried out by SGS, assessed Fine Foods’s procedures on four pillars: Health and Safety, Labor standards, Environment and Business Ethics.

Besides inspecting paper procedures and records, SGS interviewed several members of Fine Foods’ staff chosen randomly at different levels of the organization chart, as well as a union representative, to confirm that a match existed between written procedures and real-life working environment.

In addition to the already obtained ISO 14001 (Environment) and OSAHS 18001 (Health and Safety of the workplace) certifications, the result of the SMETA audit is a further confirmation of Fine Foods’ commitment to its stakeholders for a socially responsible approach to business.