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Just add hot water to this rigid polypropylene cup to create a hot meal for your pup.

Food Packaging

‘Bone’ appétit!: New advances for pet food industry

April 8, 2014

A pet peeve for some dog owners is not being able to feed their pets a warm meal. But that problem is being addressed with a heated, moist supplement for dry food in a package familiar to the world of single-serve soups, pastas and snacks.

Detectamet's new detectable pallet wrap helps reduce food contamination caused by packaging materials.

Food Packaging

Pallet wrap reduces contamination threat

The wrap offers greater resiliency and is less likely to tear.

Mikell Knights

March 8, 2014

Detectamet, a UK-based manufacturer of food-safe detectable products, developed its new detectable pallet wrap to reduce the contamination of finished food products.

Designed by Krones AG for Coca-Cola Amatil CCA, the NitroHotfill bottle is the lightweight 2014 Australian Packaging Design Award winner

Food Packaging

Lightweight hot-fill bottle a design winner

Coca-Cola Amatil CCA won the 2013 Australian Packaging Design Award for a 600ml Powerade Sports bottle.

Mikell Knights

March 8, 2014

Coca-Cola Amatil CCA won the 2013 Australian Packaging Design Award for a 600ml Powerade Sports bottle, an extremely lightweight, eco-friendly hot-fill bottle featuring a 38ml-wide neck closure.

Carton packaging is sustainable and is becoming more accessible to US households.

Food Packaging

Making renewable and recyclable cartons sustainable

Taking down the barriers to carton recycling helps to make cartons more recycle friendly for consumers.

Mikell Knights

March 8, 2014

Sustainability is a consumer trend that is transforming the packaging industry. The top three concerns in relation to beverage packaging include recycling or landfilling, renewable resources and energy, said Erin Reynolds, marketing director at Evergreen Packaging, at last year’s Sustainable Packaging Forum in St. Petersburg, FL.

Fresh and frozen fruit processors are the focus of a new high-productivity bag packaging system

Packaging News

Fruits are the target for new integrated weighing and bagging unit

Mikell Knights

February 7, 2014

A fully integrated weigh scale and bag packaging system designed specifically for fresh and frozen fruit is a new development resulting from a partnership between Automated Packaging Systems and BBC Technologies.

Butter sculptures, created in three designs by KellerÃ¢??s Creamery

Packaging News

Sculpted butter moves to supportive packaging

Mikell Knights

February 7, 2014

Butter sculptures, holiday-themed products manufactured by Keller’s Creamery, which is owned by the Dairy Farmers of America, are now being offered in a new, advanced packaging design.