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FOOD PROFESSING AND
MANUFACTURING MELTING
POT – SEND IN YOUR PICS
Following the Christchurch Mosque shootings there
is no better time than to turn your back on hate by
showing just how lucky the food processing and
manufacturing industries are with our eclectic mix of
nationalities.
Kathy Graham of Nestlé New Zealand sent in this
picture with nine nationalities represented along
with the following letter. Do the same – show us you
diverse multiculturalism within the workforce. Take a
picture, and send some words about the team and
we’re more than happy to show you off
Letter to editor:
Hi Greg
I wanted to take the time to say thank you for your
Editor’s Note in the April 2019 edition of the NZ Food
Technology News. I work in an open plan office, with 17
staff, which is made up of 11 different nationalities. How
lucky am I to be around so many different cultures!
What’s more, we all get on and we all supported
each other to get through the Christchurch Mosque
Massacre. March 15, 2019 is a day that I will never forget.
I wish you and your colleagues and your family a
wonderful future.
Kind regards
Kathy Graham – engineering clerk
Nestlé New Zealand Ltd
NEW HEAD OF SCHOOL
EXCITED ABOUT EIT’S
POTENTIAL
The Eastern Institute of Technology
has appointed Sue Blackmore
as the new Head of School of
Viticulture and Wine.
Sue combines a broad range of
international industry know-how with
years of work experience in tertiary
education. She recently relocated
from Blenheim to Hawke’s Bay and
has settled comfortably in her new
home in Bay View with prime sea
views.
Sue studied Horticulture Science at
Massey University and gained her
Postgraduate Diploma in Viticulture
and Oenology and a Masters in
Applied Science in Oenology at
Lincoln University.
She spent many years overseas
including Australia, Malaysia, Japan,
Great Britain, America and Germany,
working in both wine production and
education.
Sue has been involved in tertiary
education since returning from
overseas in 2005. Initially as
programme leader of viticulture
and wine at Nelson Marlborough
Institute of Technology (NMIT) and
then as Wine Science lecturer and
Coordinator for the Bachelor of
Viticulture and Oenology at Lincoln
University. Her latest role saw a
return to Marlborough as leader of
the Viticulture and Wine team at
NMIT.
MEADOW MUSHROOMS MAKE WORLD FIRST
Meadow Mushrooms says it is 100% committed to sustainability and has moved
away from using plastic punnets to hold their mushrooms, and in doing so, was able
to eliminate the equivalent of 2.5 million plastic drink bottles in just one year. The
cardboard punnets are bio-degradable and compostable.
In what the company describes as a world first for the food industry, Meadow
Mushrooms is now creating green packaging for their products out of mushrooms.
With partner the Biopolymer Network and scientists from Plant and Food Research,
Meadow Mushrooms are using mushroom stalks to develop a punnet that will replace
the current biodegradable punnets.
NEWS
20 MAY 2019