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Food Processing Equipment

Selecting the Right Plastic for Food Processing Equipment

As throughput rates continue to rise, so do the demands on traditional materials, equipment designers and maintenance personnel. Understanding the capabilities of a broader range of equipment material options allows for quality designs.
Dave Seiler, business development manager, Curbell Plastics, Inc.
Dave Seiler
July 10, 2025

As throughput rates continue to rise, so do the demands on traditional materials, equipment designers and maintenance personnel. Understanding the capabilities of a broader range of equipment material options allows for quality designs.


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Plastic Pallets

Considerations for Turning to Plastic Pallets and Totes

Alex Hempel_ORBIS
Alex Hempel
July 7, 2025

Plastic pallets and plastic totes provide enhanced durability and reusability, making them the sustainable option for manufacturers looking to reduce their environmental impact while maintaining high hygiene standards.


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Plánteus ready-made meals

Changing Consumer Attitudes on Sustainability Means More Solutions for Plastics

Food manufacturers now include sustainability-related emission programs but are still identifying ways to displace plastic from packaging.
Grant Gerke
Grant Gerke
November 18, 2024

Food manufacturers now include sustainability-related emission programs but are still identifying ways to displace plastic from packaging.


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Use It or Lose It: Sustainability Challenges in Fresh Food Packaging

Amid a food waste crisis, product protection is a key aspect of fresh food packaging sustainability.
Eldon Schaffer
Eldon Schaffer
August 17, 2023

Food packaging has come a long way over the last decade, those of you in the food manufacturing business—as well as those, like me, on the materials science side—have witnessed a rapidly rolling movement placing environmental friendliness at the top of priorities lists.


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Think Plastic Brazil

World Plastic Connection Summit Will Take Place on August 21-24 in São Paulo

June 27, 2023

World Plastic Connection Summit with the theme “Brazil as a Shaper of Global Trends in Converted Plastics,” will be featuring a seminar with international guests.


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CJ Biomaterials expands into new market segments and applications
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CJ Biomaterials Names Helian Polymers as Distributor in Europe

April 20, 2023

Helian to build European market for CJ Biomaterials and its PHCT A1000 amorphous polyhydroxyalkanoate technology.


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plastics roll on machine

Concerns for European flexible packaging industry

May 6, 2022

Energy and raw material prices were already at a high level but surged even further after the beginning of the war in Ukraine. Those increases combined with availability issues have serious financial impacts on the flexible packaging supply chain in Europe, according to a report by FPE (Flexible Packaging Europe, the industry representing interests of 80 companies and manufacturers).


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single-use plastic
Nuts & Bolts

Environment and human health are concerns for single-use plastic

February 16, 2022

Single-use plastic waste is a major concern for consumers today, according to The Hartman Group report, “Sustainability 2021: Environment and Society in Focus.”


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Nuts & Bolts

AI in packaging market expected to grow

February 14, 2022

According to a report published by Global Market Estimates, the global artificial intelligence (AI) in the packaging market is projected to grow at a CAGR value of 55.2% from 2021 to 2026.



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