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April 2008
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Your guide to every facet of equipment implementation

02/27/08    Sponsored Grey Star

Content Type Image  As both a manufacturer and a distributor with decades of experience, Harpak has guided its customers through every facet of equipment implementation. Whether you are working on a start up project or are a million units per day producer, Harpak is here to help. See how in this video!

Continuous motion cartoner is operator friendly on frozen food line

01/18/08    Sponsored Grey Star

Content Type Image  The Pegasus Cartoner: Continuous motion, horizontal cartoner for erecting, loading, and closing glue or tuck style cartons at up to 120 cpm. This video from Econocorp shows operator friendly cartoning on a frozen food, ethnic entree packaging line.

Arctic Robotic Design Guide

01/16/08    Sponsored Grey Star

Content Type Image  How can you increase the productivity of your freezer, lower operation and labor costs without sacrificing product quality? Read the arctic robot design guide from Kuka to learn how.

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2008 packaged goods trends—top 10 countdown...

04/17/08

Content Type Image #10—Probiotics are everywhere.

Convenience drives frozen food packaging

04/08

Content Type Image The market will see growth rates of 4.1% per year through 2011.

Western Europe ready meals remain dynamic

04/02/08

Content Type Image  Ready meals, consisting of frozen, chilled, dried and canned/preserved formats, have carved a place for themselves in many markets, especially in Western Europe. According to Euromonitor International's research, retail value sales of ready meals in Western Europe hit US$26.4 billion in 2007. The region accounted for 37% of global retail value sales, the largest share in the world.

Bourbon chicken graphics are intoxicating

03/08

Content Type Image  A stand-up pouch provides an ideal billboard at retail to showcase tasty, inviting food photography and consistent, colorful brand imagery for Perdue’s Bourbon Chicken, a frozen, cooked chicken breast product.

Package ‘steams’ into frozen vegetable pack

03/08

Content Type Image  Microwaving frozen vegetables can be messy and inconvenient for consumers. That no longer needs to be so.

Swedish ready meals maker goes green

01/08

Content Type Image  Sweden’s Gunnar Dafgård becomes the first to use a new molded wood-pulp tray that offers dual-ovenability and sustainability advantages.

High-volume retailers set the pace for packaging

01/08

Content Type Image  Consumer packaged goods companies follow high-volume retailers’ packaging lead as they seek to align with retailer strategies, brand positioning.

Automated pickers boost hamburger packing efficiencies

01/08

Content Type Image  White Castle uses robots to lower labor requirements and prevent job-related injuries.

A f’REAL! insight in a new package introduction

12/03/07

Content Type Image  How to test a new package ‘covertly’ in the real world while limiting your company's risk and increasing your packaging intelligence.

Bagger doubles speeds, reduces product giveaway

11/07

Content Type Image  In the wake of Katrina, shrimp processor/packer rebounds, rebuilds, and re-invigorates efficiencies by installing an automated scale/bagging system.

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Robotic packing capabilities video    Sponsored Grey Star

Content Type Image  New clip from Langen showcases robotic placing and packing capabilities including flexible product handling, innovative and reliable infeeds, and techniques to maximize OEE. Ideal for product placing, case packing, and palletizing.

Old Orchard Brands: Tray packer for high-output, hot-fill PET line for fruit juice

Content Type Image Near the PET line, Old Orchard runs a frozen juice concentrate line, where this tray packer/wrapper from Brenton Engineering was recently installed.

Janes Family Foods: Straight-line carton closing

Content Type Image Carton closing and sealing is done in a straight line at Janes’ North York, Ontario, Canada plant, on a line that produces up to 7ꯠ lb/hr of individually quick-frozen chicken.

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