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September 2021

Packaging World September 2021

Mastering Complex Production Sequences

This middle-tier German beer producer offers some 25 varieties of beer in returnable glass bottles, so it needed a highly versatile and automated controls architecture.

September 3, 2021

The Varioline packaging system works with ten robots, distributed among four modules, which enables the machine to handle a total of 18 different packaging variants.

Budgeting Bliss: Package Design Students Prepare Estimates

A successful package is more than just a snazzy design, a whole lot more, but even the best design won’t make it to the shelf if it costs too much to make.

September 2, 2021

After a semester of helping students craft packages for design competitions, I ask them to create a budget for their package.

Sustainable Packaging

Unilever Expands Refill Trials in the U.K.

After a successful trial with Asda last year, Unilever is launching the largest refill trial of its kind in the U.K., offering popular personal and household care products in return-on-the-go and refill-on-the-go formats.

September 1, 2021

The reusable bottles for the refill-on-the-go and return-on-the-go systems are made from stainless steel or aluminum for durability.

Controls & Machine Components

Flexibility, High Throughput on Pizza Case Packer

The M2000 case packer does the work of three machines, erases downtime and excess mechanical parts, and delivers big on flexibility and throughput.

September 1, 2021

XTS greatly reduces jams and downtime as it moves perfectly stacked pizzas into cases. Shown here is a freshly erected case on the right and two stacks of pizzas about to be pushed into the case on the left.

Operational Excellence

The Bottling Plant in the Mountains

Sheikh Mohammed Mussallam describes what it’s like to build a brand new water bottling company, A&M Rare, in the remote Pambak Mountains of Armenia.

August 30, 2021

Digital Transformation

CPGs to Spend $23.8 Billion on Digital Transformation by 2030

As the sharing of information along the supply chain becomes more critical, CPGs are increasingly creating digital threads to inform their production plans with relevant data.

August 30, 2021

Digital Transformation

New Food Safety Blueprint: Threat or Opportunity?

There’s an old expression that says, “Those who anticipate the future can see threats, but also opportunities.” Well, anyway, there ought to be. Here’s an example.

August 27, 2021

Hi-tech Bottling Comes to Remote Armenian Mountains

A&M Rare’s new, ultramodern bottling plant seems almost surreal in a place where unspoiled scenery and mountain grandeur are on full display.

August 26, 2021

Either carbonated or still water can be filled on the glass line.

Blisters/clamshells/skin packaging

Tray Sealer Helps Startup Brand Become a Savory Success

Using a combination of vacuum skin packaging and High Pressure Processing, grab-and-go meal startup Torn Apron is producing 4,000 tray packs/week of restaurant-quality meals that have a shelf life from 50 to 60 days.

August 25, 2021

Torn Apron’s chef-prepared, restaurant-quality grab-and-go meals are packaged in vacuum skin packs that let the bright colors of the fresh ingredients shine through.

Good Reasons for Package Redesign

Since reasons can include the questionable and the capricious, it’s worthwhile to know some good ones.

August 23, 2021

Packaging Redesign

Tray lidding/sealing

As Café-Hatched Egg Bites Hit Retail Shelves, Vital Farms Reimagines Pack Design, Function

The foodservice channel gave us the egg bites trend with sous vide, but Vital Farms advanced it with a new retail pack format allowing for in-pack baking in CPET trays at the production facility. Consumers simply microwave the MAP trays at home.

August 16, 2021

Vital Farms’ Egg Bites use a unique packaging and processing approach, baking the product in-pack prior to MAP sealing.

Secondary Packaging

Washdown Horizontal Cartoner

See it at PACK EXPO Las Vegas Booth #C-3036! PMI KYOTO Packaging Systems will exhibit its washdown horizontal cartoner for frozen foods such as prepared meals, ice cream novelties, and more.

August 10, 2021

Pmi Washdown Horizontal Cartoner

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