SABIC plans to display an array of innovative packaging products and materials at the K 2016 trade show in Düsseldorf. Despite all available modern technology, about one-third of food produced today for human consumption still is ...
Performance Packaging, a US based supplier of flexible and folding carton packaging, has introduced a new process to extend the shelf life of packaged foods. The Airshield process is designed to chemically remove oxygen from rigid and ...
US-based Dow Chemical Company has developed new recyclable stand-up pouches using the RecycleReady technology. Made with Retain polymer modifiers, the stand-up pouch features barrier film that can be recycled in a polyethylene recycling ...
Tags: RecycleReady technology, recycling stream, breakthrough
The U.S. prepared meals market, one of the largest in the world and a leader in per capita consumption, is maintaining strong growth, resulting in increased opportunities for packaging solutions that satisfy consumer demands in terms of ...
Tags: Flexible Packaging, Prepared Foods
PKN spoke to Matilda's Frozen Fruit co-founder Ruth Gallace about transparency of on-pack information on the brand's soon-to-launch frozen berries range. The launch of frozen Australian-grown berries is now only weeks away, according to ...
Tags: Frozen Fruit, berries
Two baby and toddler food companies: Beech-Nut is 123 years old, Rafferty’s Garden is 7. Both lead with peak nutrition claims. Beech-Nut makes glass packaging part of this. Rafferty’s Garden uses flexible pouches. Let’s ...
Tags: glass packaging, baby food, Packaging
Flexible packaging such as plastic bags, confectionery wrappers, frozen food bags and pouches makes up nearly a third (32%) of consumer plastic packaging in the UK, however virtually all of this 556,000 tonnes produced annually ends up in ...
The flexible packaging market is rapidly growing, with recent research suggesting that its global value equated to £45bn in 2013. But what has been the catalyst for this growth? Why is rigid packaging being replaced with flexible? ...
Tags: Packaging, Printing, Flexible Packaging
US-based label and flexible packaging printer Label Impressions has bought two additional Nilpeter flexible packaging servo presses in a bid to expand its flexible package printing capabilities. The presses include a 17-inch wide Nilpeter ...
Tags: Flexible Packaging, label
Modernized methods and innovative technology has improved market condition. The use of Powder Filling Machinery has met all demands of different industries including preparing enclosing, filling packets that are self weighted for ready on ...
Tags: Manufacturing, Processing Machinery, Powder Filling Machinery
Sealed Air and Pepsi-Cola Philippines (PCCPI) have joined forces with various other global companies to supply around 300,000 liters of potable drinking water encased in water pouches to the Philippines. The companies have taken the ...
Tags: Sealed Air, Pepsi-Cola
The flexible packaging market is estimated to be worth $351bn by 2018, meaning that it is rapidly gaining market share from other sectors such as traditional rigid packaging. There have been many exciting new product developments which ...
The way in which consumers view and interact with packaged products is changing. With a growing focus on convenience and sustainability, traditional pack types are being replaced by innovative and flexible options designed to meet these ...
GSC Packaging (www.gscpackaging.com) operates a state-of-the-art contract packaging facility, producing pouches, stick packs, envelopes and other flexible containers for packaging of food products and nutritional supplements. The entire ...
Once again, McCormick Distilling has proven it's a leader in innovation with the launch of Triple Crown Whiskey, Hook's Rum and single and double serve flexible packaging. As the U.S. whiskey category experiences explosive growth, ...
Tags: McCormick, Packaging Innovation