Flexibles

Dashboard dining gets a new player

Add grapes to the growing list of fresh-cut produce showing up in high-impact, graphically appealing, consumer-friendly, convenience-oriented packages found at the local supermarket.

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Containers

Bulk filler improves cookie packaging

David’s Cookies, Fairfield, NJ, is a major supplier of frozen, preformed, unbaked cookies to a range of foodservice customers. Until late 2004, the company had been manually packing its frozen-dough cookies into 20-lb bags in boxes for shipment.

August 31, 2005

Prepared Foods

Culinary expertise lifts stocks

Charles Dale, an award-winning chef and restaurateur based in Aspen, CO, is co-founder of Dale’s Kitchen, which is set to debut a line of aseptic bag-in-box ingredient stocks used for soups and other dishes.

August 31, 2005

Prepared Foods

World Kitchen's 'try me' package extends brand

World Kitchen has extended its equity in bakeware into silicone products.

August 31, 2005

Labels

PET bottles shake up cocktail-mix market

Unique packaging hits bull’s-eye for Target stores’ liquor departments.

August 31, 2005

Flexibles

Coated bowl with peelable lidding wins Diamond Award

France-based ready-made meals manufacturer William Saurin selected retortable, polymer-coated steel bowls with easy-peel polymer-coated aluminum foil lidding for its new single-serving “Salades Gourmandes” and “Salades Soleil” meat salad products.

August 31, 2005

Prepared Foods

A bag for all BBQs

From FPP Packaging Solutions in England comes the Qbag, a foil bag with a polyester window designed specifically for cooking on the barbecue grill. It won a Gold Award in the food category of the DuPont Awards competition.

August 31, 2005

Flexibles

4-panel stand-up pouch

In search of unique packaging for the launch of its new Energice® rehydration/recovery drinks, the Jel-Sert Company, West Chicago, IL, selected QuadPAK™ side-gusset, 4-panel stand-up pouches from Kapak, an Ampac company.

August 31, 2005

Meat/Poultry/Seafood

Convenient freezer-to-oven turkey packaging

Jennie-O Foods, Willmar, MN, is marketing its new “Oven Ready” fresh-frozen turkey products in a freezer-to-oven, easy-open bag system developed by Curwood, Inc.

August 31, 2005

Flexibles

Quilt packaging enhances microwave heating

Browning and crisping of microwave foods such as baked goods and sandwich breads are enhanced by QuiltWave™ packaging from Graphic Packaging International.

August 31, 2005

Containers

A batch processing approach to packaging

Arla Foods’ automated order system lets production orders flow through its new fresh-milk bottling lines in batches.

August 31, 2005

Flexible packaging

BIB tap maintains sterility in use

A patented dispenser tap that keeps low-acid bag-in-box products aseptic after opening draws end-user interest, including Dale’s Kitchen for soup stocks.

August 31, 2005

Coding, Printing & Labeling

Percent ingredient labeling

The U.S. is likely to oppose any effort by the Codex Alimentarius Commission to adopt an international labeling standard that calls for listing the percentage of the main ingredients on a packaged food label.

July 31, 2005