Secondary Packaging

Shrink wrapping developments and trends

Five developments are cited including for meat, cheese, and ready-made foods.

January 31, 2006

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Controls & Machine Components

Look who's specifying Make2Pack now

Learn how you can profit from the upcoming ISA 88.05 standard. Come to our luncheon briefing during IPACK-IMA. Qualified* pre- registered attendees will receive complimentary Turin 2006 Winter Olympics tickets, courtesy of ELAU.

December 31, 2005

Beverage

How to become a next-generation manufacturer

A piece in the January 13 ARCwire, ARC Advisory Group’s newsletter for manufacturing and supply chain excellence, makes an intriguing argument that automation as we know it today won’t get us across the threshold to the next generation of manufacturing

December 31, 2005

Labels

Technical advances in RFID at hand

New advances in RFID include long-range HF tags, devices that work well with challenging substances, and tags that are sterilization tolerant.

December 31, 2005

Controls & Machine Components

Hershey's new direction on controls

“We invested heavily in controls technology, but in the last few years we’ve changed directions because in too many cases the technologies we implemented were complicating, not simplifying, our packaging operations.”

December 31, 2005

Closures

Multipacks extend champagne distribution

Club stores have boosted the interest in multipacks, and that trend is expanding into more retail channels and product categories.

December 31, 2005

Coding, Printing & Labeling

Consumers say freshness more important than cost

The food and beverage industry believes U.S. consumers are more price-sensitive than they actually are.

December 31, 2005

Coding, Printing & Labeling

Food factors dominate barrier film analysis

The $1.1 billion U.S. market for barrier films is driven largely by growth in convenience foods, according to a new study from Kline & Co.

December 31, 2005

Sustainable Packaging

Private label trends

A recent roundtable report of private label’s evolution at retail is summarized in nine trends.

December 31, 2005

Coding, Printing & Labeling

2006: an exciting milestone and a new outlook for packaging

This year marks the 50th anniversary of Pack Expo, being held October 29 - November 2 at Chicago’s McCormick Place. We spoke with Chuck Yuska, president of the Packaging Machinery Manufacturers Institute (PMMI), sponsor and producer of the show, about this special anniversary and what the new year has in store for packaging professionals.

December 31, 2005

Secondary Packaging

Companies

Leister Process Technologies, Sarnen, Switzerland, formed a new master distribution network for the United States. The U.S. market will be serviced by the following factory-trained sales and service centers: Assembly Supplies Co., western region; Heely-Brown Co., southeast region; Hy-Tech Products, midwest; and Malcom Co., northeast region.

December 31, 2005

Dairy

FDA and FSIS discuss jurisdiction

FDA and the Food Safety and Inspection Service held a public meeting in Rosemont, IL, on December 15, 2005, to discuss ways to decide which agency regulates which food products when it comes to foods that contain meat and poultry ingredients.

December 31, 2005

Beverage

FDA warns of unwarranted claims

FDA warned 29 manufacturers, marketers, or distributors of foods made from cherries or other fruits to stop using unproven claims that their products treat or prevent disease on their web sites or product labels.

December 31, 2005