Flexibles

Employing packaging to energize nutraceuticals

As functional foods, beverages, and nutritional supplements continue to blend into new categories, companies use packaging to help market innovative new products.

July 2, 2010

Dairy: Page 22

Filling/capping, dry

Imported food still largely undiscovered territory

Immediately after the horrifying attacks of September 11, 2001, a swirl of newly urgent safety questions arose.

July 1, 2010

Sustainable Packaging

Dry aseptics-- an emerging trend?

I’ve always been fascinated by aseptic packaging, especially since food and beverage manufacturers began to evolve beyond the humble brick pack and started looking at aseptic filling of PET containers.

July 1, 2010

Feeding/inserting/unscrambling

Rotary auger filler

Spee-Dee® Packaging’s Rotary Auger Filler is designed to accurately fill products such as spices, non-dairy creamers, coffee and cornstarch, into a variety of rigid containers at rates of 100 to 400 units/min.

June 30, 2010

Secondary Packaging

ARPAC introduces AGR-Series Shrink Bundlers for Dairy Products

The AGR Series is specifically designed and built for dairy and food processing.

June 30, 2010

Closures

Whish Body Products is 'pumped' about new travel kit pack

Airless pump dispenser provides differentiation for Whish Body Products’ high-end personal care travel kit.

June 28, 2010

Flexibles

Preserve launches mail-back pack for recycled toothbrushes

Made from recycled PP, toothbrushes can be mailed back to Preserve Products for recycling into plastic lumber.

June 24, 2010

Controls & Machine Components

One dairy, one brewery, and two P2P links

For Byrne Dairy it’s Ethernet connectivity, and for Sierra Nevada it’s a software solution. But both firms now have better communications between processing and packaging.

June 16, 2010

Blisters/clamshells/thermoforming materials

High-visibility packages popular at Dairy-Deli-Bake show

Both retailers and consumers like them for their convenience and their ability to display food well through the package.

June 8, 2010

Sustainability

2010 NACD awards honor innovation

Twenty-three packages representing a range of industries are lauded by the National Association of Container Distributors.

June 7, 2010

Flexibles

Package appropriateness

Some package styles just plain fit certain product groups. A box of cereal, a tube of toothpaste, a bag of chips, a can of beans, a can of soup, a bottle of milk, a bottle of beer, a bottle of wine—in every case we automatically associate the package format with the product.

June 5, 2010

Conveying & accumulation

'Opa!' Greek yogurt company celebrates state-of-the-art filling lines

An authentic Greek import, FAGE Total yogurt is packaged at a new U.S. facility that boasts three aseptic filling lines that race to keep up with consumer demand.

June 4, 2010

Beverage

22nd DuPont Awards for Packaging Innovation--Silver winners

The following are the 2010 DuPont Silver Award winners—Innovation.

June 4, 2010