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March 2010
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Flexible packaging, extended shelf life, and automated packaging systems are some of the important components in new packaging for bakery and snack foods.  Packaging World Magazine keeps you informed about changes in snack food packaging.
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Evaluating automated vs. manual case taping

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Content Type Image  Strategy brief from Loveshaw evaluates the cost of automated case tapers vs. manual case taping, comparing number of workers, number of cases taped, tape used, and impact on production.

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Woodman Cyclone Bagmaker packaging potato chips at 135 bpm

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Content Type Image  A Woodman continuous-motion Cyclone bagmaker packaging 'simulated' potato chips at 135 bags per minute.

A breakthrough in shelf-life evaluation and quality assurance

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Content Type Image  New white paper from MOCON demonstrates it is now possible for the first time to determine actual shelf-life for oxygen sensitive products at time of production.

Quick and accurate labeling of pre-formed bags

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Content Type Image  A video from Exact Packaging takes the viewer through the labeling process for pre-formed bags. Packagers looking for a versatile labeler will appreciate how this video shows key operations and machine construction and precision qualities.

Promotional labeling and insertion: gaining buy-in from Production

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Articles

Newcomer brings originality, quirkiness to snack foods

03/18/10

Content Type Image  The snack-food aisle is cluttered with a mind-boggling assortment of brands and a lot of visual “noise.” For newcomers in the category, distinction is essential.

California considers Prop 65 for acrylamide, citing reproductive harm

03/11/10

Content Type Image  New proposal targets acrylamide for its ‘reproductive toxicity’ and seeks to set maximum allowable dose.

Frito-Lay helping Canada stock its ‘portable pantries’

03/10/10

Content Type Image  Research shows that Canada consumers are adopting a ‘Pick’n’Pack’ meal approach. Frito-Lay’s new multipacks respond with variety and portion control.

March is National Nutrition Month—read your labels carefully!

03/10/10

Content Type Image  American Dietetic Association offers help navigating food labels—more consumer confusion.

Portable “Sushi Popper” ultimate convenience food?

02/26/10

Content Type Image  Uses for tubes have grown in the past few years, but this package may smell a little fishy!

Frito Lay Canada is first with 100% compostable SunChips bag

02/08/10

Content Type Image  Marketed as “The new sound of green,” the SunChips 100% compostable flexible snack bag will begin appearing on Canadian retail shelves in March.

Microwave package brings serving ease to Dipping Chocolate

02/10

Content Type Image  Some of the best ideas appearing on store shelves today have come about because brand marketers go outside of their companies for ideas.

Mars customizes via packaging

01/06/10

Content Type Image  I love stories about innovative companies whose people are willing to try new things.

Global collaboration enables Kraft Foods’ culture change

12/09

Content Type Image Project-by-project, Kraft Foods’ global business units, with leadership from the company’s corporate sustainability team, are creating a culture where sustainability is a part of every package design.

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Achieving speed to commercialization: Visual Pak's three-pronged attack

Content Type Image  Contract manufacturer and packager touts scale, vertical integration, and personal service to grow while servicing large and small consumer product companies.

Sustainable package design is 'optimization exercise,' says awards judge

Content Type Image  Sealed Air’s Ron Cotterman speaks on his Greener Package Awards judging experience, nothing he’d like to see more holistic designs next year.

Greener Package Awards judge dishes on competition favorites

Content Type Image  Baer Design Group president Lisa Baer tells why the SunChips bag and the Rexam pharmaceutical vials were among her favorite entries in this year’s awards.

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