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Cooler bag for beer wins top FPA award

Designed to be opened up and filled with up to 5 lb of ice, this multilayer and reusable bag replaces the traditional paperboard beer carton yet allows the brewery to merchandise its product in the manner consumers are used to seeing.

March 7, 2019

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America loves its coffee, but you can kick grandpa’s coffee can down the road

Flexible packaging totally dominates the whole bean and ground coffee categories, according to Euromonitor.

March 4, 2019

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Chinese food company enters beverage market with aseptic package

Chinese company Shou Quan Zhai enters the beverage market using an aseptic pouch chosen to provide the best experience for consumers as well as for the environment.

February 10, 2019

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Spouted pouch comes to syrup category

Eugene, OR-based NuNaturals has launched a new line of sugar-free Pourable Syrups made with NuStevia, the high-quality stevia extract/blend offered exclusively by NuNaturals. These stevia-sweetened alternatives, says NuNaturals, are sweet and satisfying but don’t come with sugar and added calories.

February 8, 2019

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The magic of linear servo motors comes to pouch filling

With customers clamoring for pouch-filling equipment that makes it possible to move efficiently from one size pouch to another, this OEM found its solution in a new breed of servo motors.

February 5, 2019

Bag/pouch fill/seal (pre-made bags)

Report: Innovative new e-commerce at PACK EXPO

Covering 1.2 million net sq ft of exhibit space and drawing 2,500 exhibitors, PACK EXPO International brought 50,000 attendees to the biggest packaging event of the year. Here is our report on e-commerce.

January 21, 2019

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‘Ugly sweater’ chip bags bring in $1.5 million in sales

Pasta chip maker joins with Tipsy Elves holiday sweater company to coordinate graphics for their packaging with a complementary custom ‘ugly’ holiday sweater—with very profitable results.

December 24, 2018

Flexible packaging

Convenience, portability support liquid pouch packaging gains

New report forecasts 7.5% CAGR through 2024 for spouted and non-spouted liquid pouches.

December 18, 2018

Cartoning

Automation speeds snack-bar maker’s output

YouBar delivers customized protein bar solutions with a new automated packaging line that doubles production from 150 bars/min to 300/min versus their previous semi-automated system.

December 8, 2018

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Now Plastics: Recycled PET films

Now Plastics offers post-consumer recycled (PCR) PET films made from 60 to 90% PCR PET resin. They are designed with a high content of recycled PET materials that have been sanitized and reconfigured into film grade resin, making them environmentally sensitive and 100% compliant with sustainability requirements.

November 14, 2018

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Turkey Tracker tells consumers the story of their bird

Jennie-O Turkey Store now includes a code on each fresh or frozen turkey that consumers can enter on the company’s website to learn where their turkey comes from and the story behind it.

November 11, 2018

Flexibles

FlexPack Recovery Challenge open for submissions

The competition invites innovators, entrepreneurs, and startups to submit new ideas for reprocessing technologies capable of beneficially recovering multi-material flexible packaging waste.

November 7, 2018

Bag/pouch fill/seal (pre-made bags)

High-speed, stand-up pouch machine uses latest technology

Watch how this versatile packaging machine leverages pc-based programming to deliver 80 pouches/minute. The technology also enables user-friendly operations, seamless changeovers, and immediate issue response with Internet-based troubleshooting.

November 2, 2018