Packaging

Sustainability

Kellogg announces 100 percent sustainable packaging goal

The manufacturer has set its sights on 100 percent reusable, recyclable or compostable packaging by the end of 2025

Wayne Labs, Senior Contributing Technical Editor

October 26, 2018

The Kellogg Company is expanding its global sustainability commitments to include a goal of working towards total (100 percent) reusable, recyclable or compostable packaging by the end of 2025.

Food Waste

Curbing food waste in industrial food production

Examining waste in packaging and production can offer solutions to decreasing overall waste in the plant

Wayne Labs

October 22, 2018

As World Food Day has just recently passed, we consider the issues of food waste and look at areas where waste can be decreased.

Food Packaging

Meeting meat and poultry packaging needs

Manufacturers try to achieve clean-label products, enhance sanitation and advance automation

Sean Riley

October 22, 2018

Expiration dates, packaging conditions, and product look, feel and taste are all considerations in consumer purchase decisions when reaching for meat and poultry.

Food Packaging

Lunchbox packages leave room for notes

Rose Shilling

October 22, 2018

Companies selling chips and treats for lunchboxes offered back-to-school packages with space for parents to write notes to their children, with an option to add braille stickers on Rice Krispies Treats.

Food Packaging

Snack QR codes give glyphosate info

Testing for weedkiller added due to questions about possible health effects

Rose Shilling

October 15, 2018

ZEGO now offers QR codes on its fruit-and-seed bars and snack mixes with the results of tests checking for traces of the widely used weedkiller glyphosate, which is under scrutiny in court.

Industry news

Viking Plastic, Accu-Seal agree to distribution deal

Plan expands Accu-Seal’s presence in upper Midwest

Rose Shilling

October 10, 2018

Sealing machinery manufacturer Accu-Seal SencorpWhite Inc. announced it reached a distribution agreement with Viking Plastic Packaging / Reliable Packaging Systems

Packaging

Anheuser-Busch InBev, DS Smith Plastics win reusable packaging award

AB InBev streamlined keg handling, and DS Smith’s recyclable transit container improved efficiency

Rose Shilling

October 9, 2018

Anheuser-Busch InBev and DS Smith Plastics are winners of the 2018 Excellence in Reusable Packaging Award for innovations that reduced CO2 impact.

Packaging for e-commerce

October 8, 2018

Food Engineering editor-in-chief Casey Laughman and PMMI’s Jorge Izquierdo discuss how processors can make packaging decisions that help meet both e-commerce and in-store goals.

Tech Update

Processors use interleavers to speed up packaging of raw bacon

Meat processors are increasingly packaging raw bacon using dedicated, high-throughput interleavers and card dispensers, which dramatically increase packaging speeds.

Wayne Labs

September 28, 2018

Meat processors are increasingly turning to newer, higher speed packaging solutions that include dedicated interleavers and card dispensers that maximize throughput of raw bacon.