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Startup beverage company Nexba has launched a sugar-free cola with a fresh packaging design.

The range of Cola, Lemon and Orange Sparkling Infusions have no artificial ingredients, flavours, or sweeteners, according to Nexba.

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Nexba Cola uses Erythritol, a natural sweetener without the calories of sugar.

To celebrate its launch, Nexba will give back one per cent of sales made between 1 August 2016 and 31 March 2017 to support Surf Life Saving in its work of keeping Australian beaches safe.

The new Nexba range is available in all Coles stores.

Food & Drink Business

Three weeks after its official opening, the $17.14 million Central Coast Food Manufacturing Innovation Hub at Ourimbah is preparing to welcome its first tenants. Food & Drink Business toured the facility to see the production spaces, pilot plant, and training programs designed to grow the region’s $2 billion food and beverage manufacturing sector.

Reploid Group is expanding into Oceania, with the launch of a new sales company in New Zealand. Reploid builds modular plants that use insect larvae to repurpose food waste, having the potential to fill the gap left by Goterra’s collapse into voluntary administration earlier this year.

Welcome to the July edition of PLAY, your monthly wrap-up of the biggest stories shaping Australia's food and beverage manufacturing industry. This month we're looking at court action, a major take-private deal, alleged tomato provenance fraud, new leadership and investment in manufacturing capability. Let's get into it.