Cartons and boxes

New pack graphics make pierogies easier to shop

America’s largest producer of frozen pierogies updates its packaging with a more contemporary look and feel, while making product varieties easier to shop with new color banners.

October 8, 2018

Leaders (UNIVERSAL TAXONOMY PW): Page 519

Flexibles

Hops rebrand brings in Americana to celebrate company’s heritage

New packaging for Yakima Chief Hops uses a new color palette and logo to represent the company’s American heritage, high-quality hops, and long-standing relationship with the Yakima nation.

October 7, 2018

Sustainable Packaging

Study: Foodservice packaging proves a viable composting feedstock

A joint study by the Foodservice Packaging Assn. and the Biodegradable Products Institute finds that compostable foodservice packaging provides the same benefit as traditional feedstocks in commercial composting facilities.

October 6, 2018

Controls & Machine Components

Wintriss Controls Group: Data collection software

See it at PACK EXPO International, Booth # E-9000! Wintriss Controls Group will showcase the ShopFloorConnect® OEE and Shop Floor Data Collection Software designed to collect downtime and production efficiency data from every machine in a manufacturing operation.

October 5, 2018

E-commerce/D2C packaging

Omni-channel’s weakest link

Big, bulky, hard-to-handle products pose unique challenges to the supply chain.

October 5, 2018

Controls & Machine Components

Encoder Products: Absolute encoders

Encoder Products’ Model A58HE and Model A58SE are EtherCAT-ready, multi-turn absolute encoders designed for harsh factory and plant environments. The Model A58HE is a 58 mm encoder in a hollow bore construction, and the Model A58SE is a 58 mm shaft encoder available with either a clamping flange or synchro flange.

October 5, 2018

Flexibles

Shrink-wrapped salami takes to stand-up pouch

This roadside salami manufacturer proves that disruptive, consumer-minded packaging isn’t reserved for only the most sophisticated operations. Plus, the already shrink-wrapped salamis don't require expensive, shelf life-extending multi-layer films or foils.

October 4, 2018

Containers

Maple water represents a first in composite carton

Organic plant hydration beverage is sourced from the tap in Vermont, adhering to the company’s sustainable/responsible processing and packaging efforts.

October 4, 2018

Sustainable Packaging

Breakthrough recyclable film technology developed by Amcor

Amcor develops a platform of flexible film products that can handle a range of ambient medium-barrier, ambient high-barrier, and retort high-barrier applications.

October 2, 2018

Controls & Machine Components

Balluff: Fork sensors

Balluff offers the IP67/IP69K stainless steel fork sensors designed to resist aggressive cleaning agents, chemicals, coolants, or other media and provide viable solutions for demanding environments in a wide variety of applications, including hygienic.

October 2, 2018

Flexibles

A reclosable Gum Wallet

Only by harnessing the talents of two materials suppliers and one make of vertical form/fill/seal equipment could Perfetti Van Melle succeed in developing its Mentos Gum Wallet.

October 1, 2018

Sustainable Packaging

100% of Coca-Cola Amatil packaging to be recyclable by 2025

This includes bottles, cans, plastic wrap, glass, and paperboard, says the Australian-based Coca-Cola manufacturer/distributor.

October 1, 2018

Containers

Drink label design burrows into the natural world

Label graphics for the third variant in Seedlip’s line of non-alcoholic distilled beverages use an artful arrangement of the brand’s own botanicals, a distinct monogram, and copper detailing.

September 30, 2018