Conveying & accumulation

Campbell Wrapper Corporation: Horizontal flow wrapper

Campbell Wrapper Corporation’s full servo driven On-Edge Revolution Horizontal Flow Wrapper features a sanitary modular design with a cantilevered tube forming section that allows debris to fall away from internal drive components while providing an attractive wrap for a variety of products including cookies, crackers, frozen hash browns and frozen meat patties at speeds ranging from 50 - 150 packages/min.

September 8, 2010

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Bakery/Snack

Food danger reports at one year: program expansion may be on way

The Reportable Food Registry, the program requiring food packers, makers, processors and distributors to report potentially dangerous foods and ingredients to the Food and Drug Administration, is almost a year old.

September 8, 2010

Sustainable Packaging

Message in a bottle

The continuing flap over bottled water holds up a mirror to sustainability, from a number of angles.

September 2, 2010

Flexibles

2010 Greener Package Awards honor eight sustainable innovations

The second-annual Greener Package Awards competition recognizes innovations in five categories that significantly reduce packaging’s environmental footprint.

August 26, 2010

Bakery/Snack

Packaging sets the light-hearted tone for Jovial health food brand

Euro-USA Trading Co. Inc., North Franklin, CT, is introducing Jovial First Ever Einkorn Whole Grain Pasta, an innovative health food brand. Einkorn in the oldest species of cultivated wheat and has outstanding nutritional content, compared with common bread wheat.

August 17, 2010

Sustainable Packaging

Holistic Packaging Optimization = productivity plus

Times are changing quickly for packaging in so many ways: open innovation on the rise, sustainability designed in, social media, shelf impact, and the consumer/shopper and retailer focus on lower-cost, more value-minded solutions.

August 9, 2010

Protective/transport packaging

Taking a cost-effective approach to drug and biologic shipments

Knowing your product’s stability requirements, distribution temperature/humidity factors, and your risk tolerances are critical in successful shipments of temperature-sensitive products.

August 9, 2010

Conveying & accumulation

Robotics rallies in 2010; packagers automate for profit

After the past couple years’ serious sales slump, the industrial robotics industry is beginning to rebound, with food and consumer goods applications showing strong gains. Recent packaging installations testify to the value of automation.

August 8, 2010

Conveying & accumulation

Loma Systems introduces new x-ray inspection system

The X4 800XL is designed for the inspection of large trays, boxes and packaged products up to 800mm (31”) wide

August 5, 2010

Bakery/Snack

Private label update: Whole Foods redesigns prepared foods packaging

Upscale retailer’s strength of supporting regional suppliers made for weak national branding.

July 28, 2010

Blisters/clamshells/skin packaging

Evaluating in-mold labeling

How does this method of decoration stack up as an option?

July 26, 2010

Bakery/Snack

Sproxil's brand authentication technology earns IBM, MITX honors

Mobile phone technology allows users in third-world countries to determine if a packaged product is genuine or counterfeit.

July 22, 2010

Contract Packaging

Quick-changeover packaging: Both an essential and a bane

Market drivers are making fast line changeovers a get-ahead packaging strategy. But an exclusive CP/PTIS survey finds that communication and project management deficiencies are creating headaches.

July 16, 2010