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Food Segment Snapshot: Bakery & Snacks
One trend in this market is snacks as a replacement for meals, as healthy options and convenience packaging make it easier for on-the-go lifestyles.
Primary packaging
Co-Packer Dramatically Expands Wine Canning Capacity
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Vision 2025: CPG/OEM Partnership More Critical Than Ever
Bagging & wrapping
Caramel Wafers are Wrapped and Case Packed at 650/Min
PMMI news
PMMI Welcomes Diverse Executive Committee
Sustainability
Plastics Legislation Proposed
Federal legislators propose the Break Free From Plastic Pollution Act of 2020, which puts the economic burden of recycling in the hands of CPGs and packaging suppliers and halts all new investments in plastics production plants.
Business intelligence
Pioneering New Cannabis Packaging Standards
A myriad of challenges face cannabis packagers, from state-to-state regulatory requirements to adapting machinery and processes specifically to the cannabis market.
Design
Nanographic Press to Connecticut Converter
Sustainability
Perrier Competition Awards Three Most Promising Sustainable Packaging Innovations
The Next Packaging Movement by PERRIER awards three innovative sustainable packaging ideas with technical and operational assistance, as well as financial support up to $1 million.
Machinery
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New Mobile 3-inch Thermal Printer
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Conveyor Accumulates Non-Rounds Using Pneumatic Sweeper Arm
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Half-Frame Bulk Bag Discharger
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Simco-Ion Launches New Static Check-up Program
Design
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Chevron Seals
Design
Nanographic Press to Connecticut Converter
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Walki Group Licenses Earth Coating Technology
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Embossed Labels for Wine and Spirits
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Food Segment Snapshot: Bakery & Snacks
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Vision 2025: CPG/OEM Partnership More Critical Than Ever
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Clemson Students Longacre, Cummings Claim School Awards
PMMI news
PMMI Welcomes Diverse Executive Committee
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Machinery
Reflex Arrays
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XTS provides intelligent motion control for flow packaging applications
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Bag-in-box packaging and filling machines deliver high throughput
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Simple robot programming with handheld controller and pendant
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Tray sealing and F/F/S wrapper machines provide high quality seals
Sustainability
Dairy is First in South Africa to Use Bio-Based Closure
A new package for Woodland Dairy’s extended shelf-life milk is made from 80% renewable materials and uses a closure partly made from bio-based material, making it 100% recyclable.
E-commerce
Food Industry and E-Commerce: 5 Year Outlook
By 2024, 70% of consumers will likely utilize online grocery shopping, up from 25% now. (FMI and Nielsen, 2018) See what food manufacturers are doing to prepare for this growth.
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Industry award to honor packaging and processing professionals
Beginning March 3, PMMI will accept nominations for the Packaging & Processing Hall of Fame. Since 1971, this prestigious award has recognized some of the most distinguished contributors to industry. Learn more »
Business intelligence
OEMs Needed for $32 Billion Budding Cannabis Industry
Automated operations are the wave of the future in a growing industry that is expected to reach $32 billion globally by 2024, with a CAGR of 28%. Off the record, OEMs report cannabis companies get sticker shock!
Sustainability
Weather Stresses Logistics
Responding to consumer demands to “get it to my doorstep in a day,” the nation’s supply chain leaders now have to adjust to crazy climate events around the globe. Reusable transport packaging could hold one key to a more sustainable future.
Coding, printing & labeling
Integrated Labeling Strategy Helps Cannabis Company Grow
Medical marijuana startup Grow Ohio employs a combination of label software, printing systems, and label materials to meet compliance regulations and branding for six different packaging formats.
Design
Unique Digitally Printed Labels for Hot Sauce
Dutch hot sauce maker Dokter Worst is using unique label designs for marketing a special food festival edition of its “Nondedju Hete Saus” brand.
Package Design
Ingredient Illustrations for Salad Dressing Evoke Fresh-Market Experience
Marie’s Salad Dressing uses a small-batch, freshly-crafted identity for its new sub-brand, Marie’s Market Reserve, a product made with ‘carefully selected gourmet ingredients.’
Business intelligence
CPGs Help Emerging Brands
Recognizing the importance of disruptive innovation, large CPGs and business intelligence firms like Mintel are identifying and nurturing food and beverage companies
Package Design
From Dark to Light: Hope in a Jar
Packaging for a line of Ayurvedic-ingredient hair-repair products strikes a serious yet hopeful tone, mirroring the brand’s larger social mission to support suicide prevention.
Sustainability
Regional Coke Labels Sacrifice Branding for Recycling Education
With Coca-Cola set to roll out its new range of plastic bottles made entirely from rPET in Sweden, the beverage giant is unveiling new labels that sacrifice its iconic red and white-cursive branding for a powerful recycling message.
Package Design
A Touchdown for Mars Wrigley’s Connected M&M’S NFL Pack
At the AIPIA World Congress, Mars Wrigley and WestRock detail a pilot that used digital printing and Augmented Reality for a collectible, connected M&M’S pack in Green Bay, WI.
Business intelligence
Unconventional Strategic Partnership Helps Global Juice Brand Expand
Marketed with great success in Europe and Asia as Sonatural, this Portuguese juice maker co-locates with high pressure processor in Pennsylvania forming a unique partnership.
Sustainability
Live from TPC: NAPCOR Rolls Out ‘Positively PET’ Campaign
Issues
For the Umpteenth Time, Cannabis Market Hard to Define
The cannabis market remains fragmented and divisive.
Sustainability
Live from TPC: Every Bottle Back Seeks to Close the Loop on PET
Katherine Lugar, President & CEO of the American Beverage Assn., shares how beverage industry initiative involves educational campaign regarding PET bottles' 100% recyclability, on-pack messaging, and investment in recycling infrastructure.
Sustainability
Hellmann’s Canada to Use 100% Recycled Plastic
Packaging changes for mayonnaise bottles and jars expected to save 1 million kilograms of plastic this year
Business intelligence
U.S. Needs to Up its Recycling Game
Germany leads the world with a recycling rate of 68%, but the U.S. doesn’t even make the top ten according to “2019 Trends and Advances in Food Packaging and Processing,” a new report by PMMI Business Intelligence.
Design
Special Historical Exhibit Coming to PACK EXPO International
In a major undertaking this year in Chicago, PACK EXPO International sponsor PMMI is creating an interactive display on the history of packaging.
Package Design
Embossed Wallet for Sublingual Strip
A recurring theme when it comes to packaging of cannabis is the transition from having an army of people in manual mode to an operation where automated or semi-automated systems reduce the amount of packaging that’s done by hand.
Controls & automation
Controls Upgrade Boosts Bagging
A PACK EXPO Las Vegas Innovation Stage presentation by Emerson Automation Solutions showed how a sophisticated controls solution can be bolted onto legacy equipment.
Bagging & wrapping
Harvest Health Automates Cannabis Pouch Filling
Adding automated weighing and pouch filling brought Harvest the consistency and filling speed needed to help continue to meet growing market demand and prepare for future market growth.
