Flexible packaging

A whole new look at micro-perfs for produce packs

A new way of micro-perforating PP film right in the produce packager’s plant is helping this Scottish firm sell more rutabagas in a consumer-friendly, microwavable format.

May 8, 2011

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Cartoning

A winning package for Old Style and the Cubs

Pabst and its design firm hit one out of the park with this full-body heat-shrink label designed to make a 12-oz glass bottle look like a wooden baseball bat.

May 8, 2011

Dairy

Enthusiasm builds for Expo Pack Mexico

Expo Pack Mexico is June 21-24 in Mexico City, and by now it’s clear that both packaging and processing solutions providers are ready and enthusiastic.

May 7, 2011

Meat/Poultry/Seafood

Open innovation hits its stride

Asad Hamid, VP global packaging at Campbell Soup Co., talks about packaging and open innovation at Campbell.

May 7, 2011

Contract Packaging

Next stop Düsseldorf

By the time most of you receive this issue, I’ll be pounding the aisles of Messe Düsseldorf in search of all the new things that interpack has to offer.

May 7, 2011

Meat/Poultry/Seafood

Hormel honors Curwood with 2010 Spirit of Excellence Award

Hormel Foods Corporation has awarded Curwood, a leading packager and a division of Bemis Company, with a 2010 Spirit of Excellence Award—a prestigious honor that celebrates the company’s commitment to continuous improvement and contribution to the Hormel heritage of innovation and quality.

May 6, 2011

Contract packaging

Observations from the Contract Packaging Association's annual meeting

Experts tell contract packager and CPG company attendees to get to the point quickly, that creating tension is healthy, and that good listening skills carry high value.

April 12, 2011

Coding, Printing & Labeling

Industry Watch

A quick run-down on the latest supplier news, mergers, expansions, and people.

April 11, 2011

Conveying & accumulation

Loma forms partnership with Dorner

Loma Systems, an ITW Company is pleased to announce that it has created a strategic partnership with Dorner Manufacturing for the manufacture of conveyors for sanitary applications.

April 11, 2011

Beverage

Coors Light scores big with interactive Super Bowl carton

MillerCoors combines compelling NFL-themed carton graphics with an interactive on-pack sweepstakes to score more beer sales during the 2011 Super Bowl season.

April 9, 2011

Conveying & accumulation

Hamburger assembly, packaging gets synchronized

Kepak Group, one of Ireland’s leading food processing companies, is now benefiting from a new assembly and packaging line for its Rustlers brand of microwavable hamburger-and-bun products in which every individual unit responds flexibly to the product flow in the upstream and downstream sections of the line.

April 9, 2011

Coding, Printing & Labeling

USDA awards Clear Lam Packaging, Inc. first Certified Biobased Product Label on its Renewable Thermo

Renewable thermoformed produce packaging developed by Clear Lam Packaging, Inc. has earned the industry’s first U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Certified Biobased Product Label, part of a new voluntary labeling program to help purchasers choose products made with biobased commodities.

April 7, 2011

Conveying & accumulation

Hamburger assembly, packaging gets synchronized

Kepak Group, one of Ireland’s leading food processing companies, is now benefiting from a new assembly and packaging line for its Rustlers brand of microwavable hamburger-and-bun products in which every individual unit responds flexibly to the product flow in the upstream and downstream sections of the line.

April 7, 2011