Contract Packaging

Growth of Contract Packaging and Manufacturing Through 2025

Interview with Bush Brothers and Pretzels, Inc. on the expanding role of contract packagers/contract manufacturers during the pandemic, with an introduction by PMG's Jim Chrzan on recent Contract Packaging Association survey results.

February 17, 2021

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Sustainable Packaging

Loop Reusable/Returnable Packaging Platform Launches in Canada with Retail Partner Loblaw

Loop’s global expansion continues, bringing waste-free shopping for a range of food and household products, including Loblaw own-brand items, in reusable packaging to Canada

February 1, 2021

Coding, Printing & Labeling

First NSF Approved Edible Ink Printer

Baking Betty’s, located in Minnesota’s Mall of America, utilized Primera Technology’s Eddie,™ The Edible Ink Printer to meet high demand for personalized cookies.

December 12, 2020

Flexibles

Snack Food Companies Meet Increased Demand with New Baggers

Campbell Soup Company’s Snyder’s brand and World Food Products share how they increased capacity during the pandemic to meet the need for more products and smaller-size packages using tna baggers.

November 13, 2020

Flexibles

Bag-in-Bag VF/F/S is Really Two Machines in One Enclosure

While both machines operate independently, and bag lengths, temperatures and speeds are independent of one another, they operate hand-in-glove with the top machine cutting off sealed bags into the top of the forming tube of the second machine.

November 12, 2020

Form/fill/seal - horizontal

Off-the-Shelf HFFS Runs Sustainable Films

The entry-level system runs at speeds up to 100 pouches/min, and is capable of format changeover in less than 15 minutes.

November 9, 2020

Robotics

Robotics Special Report: Case Packer for Croutons Saves Dough on Corrugated

Specialty food products manufacturer installs a robotic case packer for croutons that can keep pace with the rest of the packaging line, while saving costs on shelf-ready packaging, as well.

July 28, 2020

Package Design

Little Red Box Gets First Redesign in Decades

A brand refresh for Sun-Maid’s raisin and other whole-fruit products includes changes that aim to appeal to millennial shoppers looking for healthy snacks for their families.

May 19, 2020

E-commerce/D2C packaging

PepsiCo Opens Two New E-Commerce Outlets

PepsiCo launches new direct-to-consumer offerings to deliver food and beverage products and meet increased demand amid pandemic.

May 11, 2020

Flexible packaging

A Dang Good Redesign for Asian-American Snacks

Healthy snack brand Dang is repositioned and redesigned to tastefully emphasize Asian-American roots while infusing fun, playful personality.

April 14, 2020

Robotics

Pick-and-Place Robots, Flow Wrapper, Fuel High-Volume Bakery

With daily volumes in the millions and demand growing, this Canadian bakery automated what was once a manual process and is now hitting speeds of 280 product/min.

April 7, 2020

Flexibles

Caramel Wafers are Wrapped and Case Packed at 650/Min

New packaging line for caramel wafer biscuits from Scotland’s Tunnock’s die-fold wraps, multipacks, and case packs caramel wafer biscuits with high flexibility and fast changeover.

February 17, 2020

Bakery/Snack

J&J Employs Versatile X-Ray for Mixed Snack Foods

To maximize detecting capability, J&J Snack Foods recently installed three x-ray systems from Mettler-Toledo Safeline, including an X33 model in 2017 and another X33 and a two-lane X36 model last year.

January 12, 2020