Flexible packaging

MAP for produce also Highest Achievement

The Fresh-N-Tasty Produce Pouch from Robbie Flexibles won a Highest Achievement Award from the FPA judges.

March 10, 2011

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Flexible packaging

Bulk-liquid packaging system serves up savings for Deli Star

Leading provider of protein salads, cooked meats, and sauces doubles productivity, improves versatility, and reduces packaging failure with new bulk-liquid packaging system.

March 9, 2011

Flexible packaging

Iconic candy meets stand-up pouch

Necco Sweethearts have been an American favorite since 1902, but even the most iconic confectionery can benefit from a packaging upgrade.

March 8, 2011

Closures

Tuna cans open with ease

Jealsa, the leading Mediterranean fish canner, is relaunching its oil-based tuna product using PeelSeam™ peelable ends.

March 6, 2011

Meat/Poultry/Seafood

Multivac receives NMA Supplier of the Year honor

At a ceremony held as during its 65th annual MeatExpo conference, the NMA (National Meat Association) awarded its 2011 Supplier of the Year award to Multivac, Inc.

February 24, 2011

Flexibles

2011 FPA Silver Award Winners

The following award winners took home Silver Awards in the 2011 FPA Awards competition.

February 11, 2011

Beverage

MOCON announces 2011 free webinar series

MOCON, Inc. has announced the 2011 schedule of its free popular educational webinars.

February 11, 2011

Controls & Machine Components

Getting personal

The commercial printing industry has a technology that could migrate to packaging and have a sizable impact. It’s called personalization, and it rests on a three-legged stool of variable printing, affinity marketing, and automated route sequencing.

February 10, 2011

Sustainable Packaging

Survey measures packaging's importance and packagers' strengths

Survey of packagers shows where priorities are. But with each key capability, survey respondents across industries indicate there’s plenty of room for improvement.

February 9, 2011

Sustainability

Smaller slider clip meets bacon brand's convenience, sustainability goals

In the crowded bacon aisle, Plumrose Foods found a way to add value to its 24-oz Plumrose Hearty Country Style Thicked-Sliced Bacon through packaging, while also meeting a senior management directive to reduce energy and package material usage.

February 8, 2011

Recycling

Food safety law is here, and so are some of its effects

Now what? Yes, the new food safety law did get passed, yes it did get signed into law.

January 18, 2011

Meat/Poultry/Seafood

MFK teaches Haitians 'how to fish'

Meds & Food for Kids not only brings a live-saving therapeutic food product to Haiti’s starving children, but it also works with local Haitian farmers and labor to produce and package the product.

January 14, 2011

Flexibles

Band sealer expands lifeline for Haitian kids

Nonprofit Meds & Food for Kids in Haiti installs new packaging equipment that doubles its output of Ready-to-Use Therapeutic Food for the country’s starving children.

January 14, 2011