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Progresso presents aseptic cooking stocks

In the Summer of 2015, Minneapolis-based Progresso, a unit of General Mills Inc., launched a new line of cooking stocks in distinctive packaging.

Progresso's new package design
Progresso's new package design

According to Jeremy Marincel, Packaging R & D Manager, the stocks are aseptically packaged in paperboard/plastic/foil structured cartons, using carton sleeves and forming/filling/capping equipment from SIG Combibloc, Inc. For extended non-refrigerated shelf life, the one-liter cartons are filled with the cooking stocks in an aseptic zone and ultrasonically sealed and twist-capped.

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