PMMI News

New Cold Pressure Council Launches at ProFood Tech

Council aims to advance High Pressure Processing (HPP) as a critical technology for the food and beverage industry.

March 2, 2017

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Conveying & accumulation

Stone scales craft beer beyond micro format

Known for variety, Stone had long required extreme flexibility in its equipment. But as the business scales up, an all-new line had them looking to strike a balance between agility and volume.

March 1, 2017

PMMI News

New Comprehensive Knowledge Center for Food and Beverage Industry

The ProFood Tech Learning Hub Offers Free Educational Opportunities to Attendees

March 1, 2017

Beverage

Craft brewing—quick hits—2017

The Craft Brewers Conference doesn’t take place until next month. But why not take a peek now at a few of the more intriguing developments unfolding in this always exciting arena?

March 1, 2017

Cartoning

Devils Backbone keeps it local, familiar

This growing East Coast brewery has found value in responsive, local machine builders and vendors who are intimately familiar with their lines of bottling and canning equipment.

March 1, 2017

Filling/capping, liquid & viscous

Steady growth makes automation essential

Beers brewed by this Munster, IN, brewery just 60 miles from Chicago have won their fair share of accolades over the years. Now management is focused on expansion and automation.

March 1, 2017

Blisters/clamshells/thermoforming materials

A push for single unit-dose adoption seen at PACK EXPO East

An Italy-based manufacturer of single unit-dose package designs, films, and accompanying machinery sees slow but certain adoption of European single-serve pack trends in North America.

February 28, 2017

Flexible packaging

New chip pack format seen at PACK EXPO East

Irving, TX-based Mission Foods has sold its popular tortilla chips in preformed flat-bottom pouches made of a paper lamination for many years now, but new packages shown at PACK EXPO East suggest that a change is being evaluated.

February 28, 2017

Recycling

IML ice cream packaging wins awards for trailblazing design

New IML packaging for South African brand Dairymaid Ice-Cream elevates the product’s shelf impact with a compact and streamlined look.

February 28, 2017

Flexible packaging

New cat litter pack spotted at PACK EXPO East

Clorox brand Scoop Away cat litter now comes in a convenient new format: four flexible-film brick packs in a shrink-wrapped corrugated tray holding a total of 38 lb of cat litter.

February 27, 2017

Sustainability

Libby’s labels vegetable cans as BPA-free

Seneca Foods adds a logo to its Libby’s brand canned vegetable packaging to alert consumers that the can uses BPA-free can-lining technology.

February 26, 2017

Flexibles

Audible packaging feature appeals to pets and pet owners

Sensory closure system provides heightened audible cues each time Purina’s Fancy Feast Duos pet treats pouch is opened.

February 23, 2017

Flexibles

Unit-dose shaving minis

Thanks to water-soluble film, these pouches bring a whole new level of portability and convenience.

February 23, 2017