Flexible packaging - Articles - Page 17

Packaging Materials

Multifaceted empowerment

New packaging materials add functionality, improve sustainability, lengthen shelf life and enhance shelf impact of food products.

Hallie Forcinio

March 6, 2013

Innovative packaging materials and concepts give new and established products greater functionality, sustainability, shelf life and shelf impact.

Packaging

Shake your bottle

Kevin T. Higgins

March 6, 2013

Old ideas that clicked are tailor made for recycling, provided they have a contemporary twist.

Packaging

Recession? What recession?

At November’s PACK EXPO trade show, food and beverage equipment buyers came, they saw, they purchased.

Kevin T. Higgins

February 6, 2013

If market share numbers are indicative of trade show attendance, 27,000 packaging machinery buyers from food and beverage companies prowled the aisles at the 2012 PACK EXPO event, and they had the kind of checkbook balances that make equipment fabricators’ eyes water.

Sausage maker streamlines shrinkwrapping on breakfast line

November 7, 2012

System upgrade doubles throughput, maximizes line uptime and provides efficient long-term operational ROI.

Processor uses VFFS to meet changing customer demands

November 7, 2012

Low maintenance, flexible vertical form-fill-seal equipment delivers increased speed and uptime.

All that jazzy

Kevin T. Higgins

October 4, 2012

In August, Britain’s best-dressed spud debuted on grocers’ shelves in a distinctive bag that lets it preen for shoppers in all its glory.

TECH FLASH

Efficiency is the key to a successful line

September 25, 2012

Efficiency, however, requires accuracy, reliability and effective use of resources.

TECH FLASH

Ensuring the sustainability of sustainability efforts

August 28, 2012

Making a product “green” often calls for manufacturing changes—sometimes with unexpected results that must be factored into the equation.

Green, by the way

Kevin T. Higgins

August 6, 2012

Functionality usually takes a back seat or rides shotgun with environmentally friendly packaging materials, but that’s not the case with a new polymer film from the Australian firm Plantic Technologies Ltd.

Store-wrapped beef’s Waterloo?

Kevin T. Higgins

August 6, 2012

Case-ready meat has replaced in-store wrapping for many products, and a new film provides another opportunity for centralized packaging in vacuum bags.