Hershey Foods and Smithfield Packing Co. were among the honorees in packaging award competitions held in conjunction with the recent PACK EXPO Las Vegas show.
Bag-in-box packaging for wine has been the butt of countless bad jokes, though consumers in Europe and especially Australia have embraced this alternative to the glass bottle for a wide variety of wines.
It's that time of year when Food Engineering takes a few minutes to focus not so much on engineering challenges and operations success stories, but on the people running food and beverage manufacturing plants.
There's no shortage of traceability tools from technology providers. How effectively manufacturers deploy them is shaping up as a key competitive issue.