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Tech Update: Filling Equipment

August 1, 2011

By Kevin T. Higgins, Senior Editor

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Faster fill times are nice, but a host of other considerations also are part of manufacturers’ value calculations. Those needs are evident in the systems being developed.

Flexibility, safety, sustainability dominate Interpack 2011

August 1, 2011

By Maureen Byrne

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Held May 12-18 in Düsseldorf, Germany, the triennial exhibition featured innovations that packed a punch.

Susceptors and the safety challenge

June 1, 2011

By Kevin T. Higgins, Senior Editor

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With the microwave supplanting the convection oven, package engineers eye susceptor systems to better protect frozen-food consumers from undercooked products.

The carbon-attuned chicken

June 1, 2011

By Kevin T. Higgins, Senior Editor

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Gold’n Plump Poultry packages chickens at three price points, including its premium Just Bare brand, which touts its carbon consciousness with a certification seal from the Carbon Trust on the

Standards by popular demand

June 1, 2011

By Kevin T. Higgins, Senior Editor

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Ossid’s Jason Angel demonstrates the ease-of-access to the sealing chamber on the company’s new horizontal form/fill/seal machine for protein products. The design of the 15-cycles-per-minute vacuum machine was driven by

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