The winning products and themes for the 56th Food Industry Technology Achievement Awards were decided at the final judging session. A total of 40 entries across 6 categories and a special award were selected, and the awards ceremony is scheduled to take place in Tokyo on 11 November.
The winning products and themes for the 56th Food Industry Technology Achievement Awards, organised by the Food Industry Newspaper Company, were decided at the final judging session held on 5 October. This year, a total of 40 entries across 6 categories and a special award were eligible for recognition, and the awards ceremony is scheduled to take place in Tokyo on 11 November.
Examples of winners in the Products, Technology and Equipment category include Asahi Breweries’ Asahi Gold, Kewpie’s Kewpie Half and Nissin Foods’ Chilled Cup Noodles.
In the Materials, Equipment and Systems category, winners included Satake’s Shingin, Nakanishi Manufacturing’s SV Roaster Series and Fujiwara Techno Art’s Compact Aerated Solid-State Cultivation System. Winners in the Marketing category included Kato Sangyo’s Kanpy 70th Anniversary, while the Sustainability category included Ajinomoto Frozen Foods’ Choose and Make It Sustainable and umios’ umios Planet.
Marumiya Food Industry’s Toward Its 100th Anniversary, 55th Anniversary of Mapo Tofu was selected for the special award. The selection committee included Takashi Arakawa, chairman of the Food Industry Center, among others, with experts from a range of fields involved in the judging process.