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Food Packaging: Beer carton stacks up

February 13, 2016

A Canadian brewer is using a new carton with a retractable handle to draw attention to its craft beers.

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Food Packaging: In the resealable future

The standup, resealable pouch seems to be taking over the retail shelf, offering consumers freshness and convenience.

Debra Schug

February 8, 2016

If you take a trip to the grocery store, you’ll see the popularity of standup pouches.

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Lightweight champ

Debra Schug

January 12, 2016

Amcor Rigid Plastics has been named the winner in the beverage/nonalcoholic category of the AmeriStar Package Awards Competition, sponsored by the Institute of Packaging Professionals (IoPP).

FDA revokes approval of three chemicals previously cleared for use in food packaging

Jeremy Gerrard

January 5, 2016

According to FDA, the decision reflects new data linking these substances to structurally similar toxic compounds.

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Addressing safety concerns

With more demand for safe food and beverage packaging, new innovations for consumer packaged goods could soon enter the marketplace.

Debra Schug

January 5, 2016

The growth of the consumer wellness movement and demand for healthy foods has resulted in companies like Kraft and Nestlé eliminating the artificial ingredients in their products.

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Food Packaging: Pourable straw

Debra Schug

December 19, 2015

Nippon Straw, a manufacturer of drinking straws based in Tokyo, has created the Ex straw that facilitates smooth pouring of a package’s contents into another vessel.

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Food Packaging: Better Barrier

Debra Schug

December 12, 2015

Greiner Packaging’s inert barrier technology won the Swiss Packaging Institute’s award for outstanding performance in the packaging technology category.

Food Packaging: Flexible leads the pack

Debra Schug

December 5, 2015

At PACK EXPO 2015, the Association for Packaging and Processing Technology (PMMI) unveiled the findings from three industry reports: the “State of the Industry U.S. Packaging Machinery Report,” “Global Packaging Trends” and the “2015 Flexible Packaging Market Assessment Report.”

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Food Packaging: UV light and recycled PET bottles

Debra Schug

November 26, 2015

The storage conditions of post-consumer polyethylene terephthalate (PET) bottles could affect further recycled PET bottles, according to a recent Plastic Technologies, Inc. research study.

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