The Nutrition Facts label is found on packaged foods and beverages, and can serve as your daily guide for comparing foods and making healthy choices. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is making it even easier to explore and ...
Contract packaging specialist South Atlantic Packaging Corporation has acquired Prostar Packaging for an undisclosed amount. The acquisition forms a part of the company's strategy to become a $50m enterprise by focusing on acquisitions ...
Tags: Prostar Packaging, Packaging
Self-made school canteen certification logos on food and beverage packaging are misleading parents, according to consumer advocacy organisation, Choice. Products such as Paddle Pops, Tiny Teddies and Shapes are displaying “school ...
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Butler Automatic, the inventor and global leader of automatic splicing solutions, announces that its SP1 Series Automatic Film Splicer is ideally suited towards food and beverage packaging applications. The SP1Automatic Film ...
Switzerland-based food and beverage packaging firm Tetra Pak has launched a new high performance filling machine for chilled distribution. The new Tetra Pak TR/G7 has the capacity to produce 6500 gable top packages every hour with ...
Tags: food and beverage packaging, filling machine, dairy products
Multisorb Technologies will be participating at Pack Expo in Las Vegas, September 28-30, 2015 with a focus on its clean label capabilities for food processors and packagers. The demand for cleaner and consumer friendly labels has left ...
Tags: Packagers, Food Processors
Pritzker Group Private Capital has purchased Chicago-based LBP Manufacturing to tap the latter’s potential in material science, equipment and converting technology in food and beverage packaging. LBP Manufacturing is being acquired ...
Tags: packaging machine, arriage, Pritzker Group Private Capital
Food packaging company Sealed Air has begun the construction of its new headquarters in Charlotte, North Carolina, US. The company will move to the new campus at LakePointe Corporate Center in early 2017, and is expected to employ around ...
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Catalyst Paper is investing nearly $16m in the Rumford pulp and paper mill in Maine, US, as for its upgrade and maintenance. Around $11m will be spent on maintenance projects including the upgrade of the mill's Recovery Boiler C. The ...
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Specialized polymer materials, services and solutions provider PolyOne has received an approval for using its ColorMatrix Ultimate UV390 light blocking technology for food and beverage PET packaging in China. The technology claims to ...
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Who are the world’s biggest polluters? A report by non-profit environmental and social responsibility organisation, As You Sow, and the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC), examined the packaging practices of forty-seven fast ...
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According to Visiongain, a British market research firm, the global flexible packaging market has reached some US$143.83 billion, mostly driven by growing sales of consumer products in emerging nations. In the next decade, the firm ...
As part of the Canadian Food Inspection Agency's (CFIA) routine testing of various food products, a survey released today reported that all of the canned foods tested for Bisphenol A (BPA) were safe to consume. BPA was not detected in 98.5 ...
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Tokyo Pack is the showcase in which the most advanced packaging developments globally tend to make their debuts. At the last Tokyo Pack in 2012, Showa Aluminum Can Corporation showed off its colour changing can used by Asahi Breweries. ...
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Festo introduces the DGC-K, a compact rodless pneumatic drive ideal for simple drive functions and positioning operations, such as opening and closing doors and end of line packaging applications. Relative to its stroke, this unit is ...
Tags: Simple Drive Functions, Food