Cartoning

Perfecting pasta packaging

A line at Barilla's greenfield plant in Avon, NY, features a cartoner and two case packers.

January 7, 2009

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Dairy

Small footprint, maximum functionality

IndraDrive Mi helps reduce footprint and add flexibility for a four-axis, top-load robotic case packer handling 120 packs/min.

December 3, 2008

Flexibles

Pouch provides at-home meal prep

A confluence of food and beverage product and packaging trends are represented with the introduction of new Salad Finishers™ and Potato Finishers™ from Sargento Foods, Inc., Plymouth, WI.

December 3, 2008

Sustainability

Economic concerns battle convenience for supremacy

Escalating oil costs have an impact on both packagers and consumers, driving new food and beverage packaging trends. But convenience is still top-of-mind for many.

December 3, 2008

Labels

Kiwifruit and RFID

A combination of technologies proved fruitful for kiwifruit packer EastPack in New Zealand.

December 1, 2008

Coding, Printing & Labeling

RFID-powered cabinets

Using RFID Cabinets and Freezers to Protect and Manage High-Value Inventory was the subject of a Webinar Oct. 2 sponsored by Terso Solutions (www.tersosolutions.com) and Odin Technologies (www.odintechnologies.com) that highlighted several case studies.

November 2, 2008

Secondary Packaging

Frozen entrée producer installs high-efficiency casing equipment

Competitively priced, small-footprint system fits nicely into the budget and floor space at Inovata Foods.

November 2, 2008

Coding, Printing & Labeling

Hey, do eat that, you know where it's been

The United States imports a lot of the food you eat, and now more of it will be labeled with its country of origin.

November 2, 2008

Bakery/Snack

Spray-can pancake batter is a blast

Organic pancake and waffle batter in a spray can allows quick preparation of a healthy breakfast.

November 2, 2008

Sustainability

Colorful sustainable packaging

Newly launched by PWP Industries, the AgroResin® Rainbow expands the AgroResin® fiber composite packaging portfolio to include bright, vibrant new colors.

October 5, 2008

Secondary Packaging

Fishing for customers

Ronnie Wrenn waits patiently for retailers and consumers to catch on to fresh, never frozen case-ready seafood from his company, Fresher Than Fresh, which provides its products in modified-atmosphere packaged overwrapped trays (see www.packworld.com/casestudy-26065)

October 3, 2008

Bag/pouch fill/seal (pre-made bags)

Enhanced vf/f/s

The robag® 3 vf/f/s packaging system from tna includes new kanga jaw technology for high-quality, specialty bag formats and long bag applications such as cereals and frozen foods.

October 3, 2008

Conveying & accumulation

Servos deliver robotic dexterity

Multipacks of refrigerated dessert cups have been ‘discovered’ by German food marketers and their consumers. At Campina, better automation was required.

October 2, 2008