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Flip-up vacuum pack gives 360-deg look at beef

Chicago-based PRE Brands develops a vacuum pack that flips up from a backing card to offer a full view of its ethically sourced beef products. Features such as an easy-peel opening and easy-tear perforation provide extra consumer convenience.

September 14, 2017

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Milk conveys organic with unbleached paperboard carton

Arla’s EKO organic dairy brand uses a new carton made from natural brown unbleached paperboard that retains the color of the wood fibers and has a visible fiber structure.

September 11, 2017

Arla Foods in Sweden has launched several milk products in its organic EKO range using the Naturally Pure-Pak carton.

Compostable film wraps snack bars

A compostable film wrapper for new cold-pressed fruit and nut bars from Shanvalley Innovative Food Company of Ireland helps the company expand on its brand promise, ‘Eat Right – Live Right.’

September 10, 2017

The wrapper is a multilayer laminate made from a blend of different compostable polymers.

Case/tray packing

Beech-Nut completes redesign of infant cereal canisters

Beech-Nut’s popular baby cereal product has been in a paperboard carton for a whole lotta years, but now a coextruded newcomer with a built-in measuring cap has taken its place.

September 5, 2017

Containers enter the rotary continuous-motion auger filler by way of a feedscrew. At the discharge is an applicator that applies a foil cap that later gets induction sealed to the container. The filler lets an operator pick from a menu of different vibration set points depending on which product is in production.

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

Bagging hops goes automatic

This Yakima broker used to buy hops pellets and bag them by hand. Now the firm takes in baled hops, mills its own pellets, and then packages the pellets with a combination scale and bagger.

September 5, 2017

Hollingbery incorporated an extraction fan to keep airporne particles from contaminating the electrical circuitry.

Secondary Packaging

Robotic case packing for a safer end-of-line environment

Indonesian dairy relieves its congested manual case-packing area by installing 11 robotic case packers that improve efficiency, create a safer work environment, and reduce labor costs.

August 29, 2017

Shown are Fresian Flag employees instrumental in the installation of the company’s new robotic case packers.

Secondary Packaging

Swedish food producer sold on ‘cobots’

Collaborative robots at Atria Scandinavia work alongside operators to handle repetitive tasks, decreasing changeover time from six hours to 20 minutes and enabling new packaging applications.

August 28, 2017

Atria employs three six-axis collaborative robots to automate tasks such as labeling, carton erecting, and palletizing.

Blisters/clamshells/thermoforming materials

Nordic heritage, unique flavors are focus of new skyr cup

A new paperboard-plastic thermoform structure and redesigned label graphics differentiate Icelandic Provisions’ skyr product from yogurt and highlight its Nordic roots and ingredients.

August 26, 2017

Icelandic Provisions Peach Cloudberry Skyr AFTER redesign

Coding, Printing & Labeling

Labeler resolves bottleneck for Produlab Pharma

Dutch CMO meets growing global customer needs without its previous set-up and adjustment difficulties.

August 24, 2017

Produlab Pharma can now run various-sized bottles faster and with less complexity since installing its new labeler on this production/packaging line.

Refreshed label graphics conjure Mediterranean warmth

The Peloponnese brand of Greek and Mediterranean food specialties gets a new visual identity that puts its namesake—the Greek village of Peloponnese—front and center.

August 21, 2017

Source Atlantique introduced new packaging graphics for all 14 of its products.

Cartons and boxes

Hershey’s new display-ready case reduces corrugated by 32%

Redesigning the display-ready case for its packaged chocolate products from a two-piece to a one-piece box helps move Hershey toward its goal of reducing its packaging material by 25 million pounds by 2025.

August 19, 2017

Hershey has changed its display-ready case from a two-piece design (l.) to a one-piece box (r.).

Blisters/clamshells/thermoforming materials

New microwave pasteurization line fuels Swedish food producer’s success

Beef producer Grön Ko expands its business to include chilled ready meals prepared by microwave pasteurization, growing from 1,000 units per week to 20,000 with a new line.

August 18, 2017

Grön Ko’s selection now include 20 varieties, among them traditional Swedish dishes as well as ethnic specialties.

Meat/Poultry/Seafood

Hongyang Biotechnology delivers livestock authentication

TruTag’s authentication security platform aims to protect livestock at 1,500 farms for Hongyang in China.

August 16, 2017

TruTag’s authentication security platform aims to protect livestock—beginning with pigs—at some 1,500 farms in Hongyang’s supply chain in China. Meat packaging will be a focus of Hongyang's authentication efforts.

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Products

New COMPASS belt-fed optical sorter from Key Technology

Duravant Showcases Food Sorting and Handling Equipment at PACK EXPO Las Vegas

Visit Booth W-1044 to see optical sorters, conveyors, and more from Duravant’s Food Sorting and Handling Group, including Key Technology, PPM Technologies, and WECO.

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