Cartons and boxes

Cannabis brand incredibles grows up, but keeps its cool

New, more polished, packaging for the incredibles line of edibles reflects the brands’ growing national status while keeping some of the graphic elements that made it a fixture on the Colorado scene.

December 29, 2018

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Confection/Candy

Pouch graphics perform heavy lifting for cannabis edibles

Cannabis is a new market, but early movers in legal states have a head start in pioneering more sophisticated packaging.

November 29, 2018

Confection/Candy

Multi-orientation, multi-scan metal detector unveiled

New metal detector for high-value foods can identify very thin contaminants, inspecting products vertically and horizontally at one time.

October 16, 2018

Confection/Candy

New versatile small batch confectionery depositor

Baker Perkins (Booth #S-2695) has introduced the ServoForm Mini, a high-output small batch candy depositor.

October 15, 2018

Flexibles

Smaller packs, healthy snacking pushing pouch applications

New Freedonia study forecasts the demand for pouches used in candy and snack food packaging to increase 3.8% annually through 2022 to $3.4 billion.

October 9, 2018

Flexibles

A reclosable Gum Wallet

Only by harnessing the talents of two materials suppliers and one make of vertical form/fill/seal equipment could Perfetti Van Melle succeed in developing its Mentos Gum Wallet.

October 1, 2018

Secondary Packaging

RRPs for candy pouches require robotic case packing

A Ferrara Candy packaging center installs two robotic case packers capable of loading its consumer-preferred stand-up pouches in a range of retail-ready packaging configurations.

August 20, 2018

Flexibles

Merchandising pop for Mentos candies

SHARE-A-BOWL, a flexible, stackable, and reclosable package made from a single roll of film on a vertical form/fill/seal machine, scores big points on sustainability.

March 27, 2018

Flexibles

Pack becomes a reclosable serving bowl

Perfetti Van Melle's Mentos SHARE-A-BOWL PrimaPak package won not just a Gold award for Packaging Excellence but also two Silver Awards, one for Expanding the Use of Flexible Packaging and another for Technical Innovation.

March 26, 2018

Recycling

Gifting gets personalized

Cadbury in the UK makes it possible to deliver a personalized Valentine’s Day gift using an innovative digital packaging technology.

February 14, 2018

Confection/Candy

Stratasys eyes packaging

According to market research from MarketsandMarkets, the 3D printing market is expected to be worth $32.78 billion by 2023, which represents a Compound Annual Growth Rate of 25.76% between now and then.

November 2, 2017

Cartons and boxes

Hershey’s new display-ready case reduces corrugated by 32%

Redesigning the display-ready case for its packaged chocolate products from a two-piece to a one-piece box helps move Hershey toward its goal of reducing its packaging material by 25 million pounds by 2025.

August 19, 2017

Feeding/inserting/unscrambling

Tasty treats packed in trays and cartons at 250 products/min

Turkish confectioner installs two automated packaging lines for its chocolate-filled ice cream cones that use 16 robots each to load the products into trays for flow wrapping or cartoning.

July 29, 2017