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Flow wrapping

Horizontal zipper packaging protects left-over tortillas

Honeytop Specialty Foods, Whitby, UK, has introduced resealable film packaging for its tortilla wraps, sold under the brand name of a leading UK retailer.

December 7, 2009

Controls & Machine Components

Eaton Corporation: New Eaton ratings help customers design industrial control panels with improved safety

Eaton Corporation announced it is enabling control panel builders to construct control panels that improve safety while preventing application errors.

December 7, 2009

Conveying & accumulation

PMMI names Benjamin Garvey to board

Garvey Corporation has announced that its General Manager, Benjamin Garvey, has been appointed to the Packaging Machinery Manufacturers Institute's Board of Directors.

December 6, 2009

Coding, Printing & Labeling

Food safety fears fuel traceability options

Amidst an environment where outbreaks of food-related illnesses seem to be making headlines with increasing regularity, and one in which consumers’ trust in government and other institutions continues to plunge as the result of a shaken economy, food safety concerns are at an all-time high.

December 6, 2009

Flexible packaging

Value and health drive new food and beverage packaging

A depressed economy and consumers' increasing concerns about personal, as well as environmental, health and wellness drive food and beverage packaging innovations.

December 6, 2009

Flexibles

A fiber-based food pack first

Finnish food marketer introduces a new kind of tray that permits unusual shapes and functionalities.

December 6, 2009

Filling/capping, liquid & viscous

Steel aerosol cans get enhanced green makeover

In the fourth quarter of 2008, CRC Marine Products adopted new lightweight, polymer-coated steel aerosol can packaging for some of its marine cleaning/maintenance products.

December 6, 2009

Contract packaging

Companies

December 5, 2009

Flexible packaging

Cloud Packaging adds mid-speed expertise with purchase of Toll Packaging

Acquisition made in part to respond to current market demands for shorter packaging runs.

December 4, 2009

Secondary Packaging

New coders ease Fox Barrel's complexity, downtime

Cider maker upgrades its bottle and case coding operations.

December 4, 2009

Coding, Printing & Labeling

Booklet labels: Untapped marketing muscle for your brand?

If you’re a brand manager who hasn’t considered these labels lately, they’re doing wonders for solving complexity and quickly turning out promotional packaging.

December 4, 2009

Coding, Printing & Labeling

Hormel Health Labs launches high-protein beverage in hot-fill bottle

Hormel Health Labs launches high-protein beverage in innovative hot-fill bottle.

December 4, 2009