Meat/Poultry/Seafood

JBS enhances specialty beef lines with new easy-open package

Meat processor uses new bag that enhances employee and product safety, improves back-of-house efficiencies, and reduces product waste.

January 6, 2012

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Bakery/Snack

Higher-barrier plastics will help grow flexible packaging market

Flexible packaging benefits from a widening range of new products being developed by brand owners in an increasingly competitive consumer marketplace.

January 5, 2012

Filling/capping, dry

MAP meat line is big on flexibility

Danish meat processor Himmerlandskoed sends a variety of modified-atmosphere packs to both retailers and wholesalers alike. So a versatile tray sealer was crucial.

December 6, 2011

Containers

Seafood specialties in retorted, IML tubs

Appel Feinkost GmbH & Co. KG, of Cuxhaven, Germany, produces the Appel Gourmet Seafood line in six non-refrigerated salad and snack varieties.

November 15, 2011

Meat/Poultry/Seafood

X-ray inspection enhances meat pack safety

Meat processor elevates contaminant detection capabilities beyond metal particles only.

November 3, 2011

Sustainability

Fishery converts to 100%-recycled-fiber cases

Foodservice seafood provider makes transition to 100% recycled kraft for its master cases, printed with water-based, metal-free inks.

October 26, 2011

Flexibles

U.S. demand for flexible packaging to exceed $18 billion in 2015

Study indicates that deceleration in raw material price growth, as well as flexible packaging’s lightweight properties will push demand for the converted material.

October 14, 2011

Conveying & accumulation

Check weigher OEM weighs in on open architecture

Friesen’s increases its check weigher system speed by 31% and reduces downtime by 22% using controls that are PC- and EtherCAT-based.

September 29, 2011

Conveying & accumulation

Marketing mussels with a microwave boost

Fresh mussels have a short shelf life and aren’t easy to prepare at home. Microwave pasteurization addresses these issues and provides a 21-day refrigerated shelf life.

September 28, 2011

Protective/transport packaging

An epistolary column

My Lead Off column in the July issue described how Ecovative LLC and others are turning to crop waste as a biopolymer feedstock. The column generated this intriguing exchange of e-mails.

September 28, 2011

Blisters/clamshells/skin packaging

Twist-out blister is a first

A revolutionary new fishing line gets a paperboard/plastic package that is equally original and is believed to be the first twist-off blister package ever.

September 15, 2011

Blisters/clamshells/thermoforming materials

OFF THE SHELF: Twist off blister pack

Editor Pat Reynolds checks in from Packaging World's Pine Lake office with a NatraLock first: A twist-off blister pack for Berkley brand fishing line.

September 12, 2011

Meat/Poultry/Seafood

Ground beef recall

Vantage Foods, a Lenoir, NC establishment, is recalling approximately 1,642 pounds of ground beef products that may contain foreign material, the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) announced today.

August 25, 2011