If there were a Miss Congeniality award for packaging, a food or beverage company would have been the odds-on favorite of judges for the 23rd DuPont Awards for Packaging Innovation.
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.
With the microwave supplanting the convection oven, package engineers eye susceptor systems to better protect frozen-food consumers from undercooked products.
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
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
OK, readers, what’s going on out there? I am very surprised to report four food and beverage quality issues that occurred on consumer purchases I made in the past six weeks.
Every process needs connectivity-the right “circulation system” to provide optimum hygiene, flexibility, fast changeovers and ease of maintenance at the lowest possible cost.
Burst tests, leak detection and other package-integrity testing remain largely lab-based, manual processes, even as the machines that produce those packages accelerate their output capabilities.