US-based food products manufacturer Vanee Foods Company will invest close to $8m in a high-speed hot fill bottling line. Based at the company's Broadview manufacturing facility, the new facility will fill bottles ranging in size from 8 fl ...
Members of the Australian packaging supply chain voiced their opinion on the need for cross-company collaboration at a joint AIP/APPMA meeting held in Melbourne last night. The group of over 80 packaging professionals had gathered to hear ...
Cott Corporation’s UK/Europe business unit has purchased all subsidiary companies of Aimia Foods in a $133m deal.The acquisition price includes the payment of nearly $80m at closing plus an adjustment for working capital, $33m in ...
Tags: UK Business Unit, Aimia Foods
According to the latest research from The Can Manufacturers Institute (CMI), food cans are preferred by consumers when compared with other packaging formats. The findings show that cans help families enjoy nutritious meals and ...
Tags: Food Cans, packaging formats
Launched in 2004, Thai Taste consists of over fifty products, all exclusively made in Thailand from fresh, locally sourced ingredients. The new packaging formats have helped reduce the amount of packaging by 69% to enhance the brand's ...
Two months ago, Freedom Foods' Pactum Dairy Group commissioned a new $45m UHT (aseptic) dairy beverage facility in the northern Victorian city of Shepparton for manufacture of high value added dairy beverages for key customers in China and ...
Tags: Dairy, Agriculture, Food
Drink mixes and zero calorie sweeteners producer Heartland Food Products has announced plans to invest $21.2m to expand its operations in Central Indiana. The investment will include renovation and installation of 435,000ft2 of production ...
Tags: Heartland Food, Food, Drinking, Food Packaging
Originally only associated with nightlife activities or as an accompaniment to alcoholic beverages to create mixed drinks, energy drinks are increasingly being consumed as refreshments in their own right. In fact, a recent study conducted ...
Tags: Crown, Energy Drinks, Drinks Market
An example of 'innovative' nut varieties The share of nuts in global snack foods launches has risen steadily in recent years as nuts have found increasing favour as convenient and nutritious snacks and technology has allowed development ...
US-based health care products manufacturer Vireo Systems has unveiled new packaging and design for its flagship product AminoActiv, a non-toxic pain reliever. The new labeling and packaging formats have been designed to increase ...
Tags: care products, health products
Thomas Hardy recently upgraded to the end of line packaging system at the site, where a new shrinkwrapper was installed, and there was a requirement to modify the bottle conveyors feeding the new machine. As a contract packer, the ...
Four companies have confirmed they will be exhibiting for the first time, increasing the breadth of services offered, and deepening the show's penetration of two key sectors – chemicals and food. New exhibitors, Woodman Hill and ...
Coopers Brewery has geared up for an expected rise in demand for its traditional Pale Ale, Sparkling Ale, Mild Ale and Stout products with the opening of a second bottling line at its Regency Park, South Australia, brewery. The new line, ...
I joined GreenBlue last fall as the new executive director and Sustainable Packaging Coalition (SPC) director. Now that a year has passed, I would like to take this opportunity to reflect on some key industry milestones in 2013 and talk ...
Willy Wonka is at it again. Not since Violet Beauregarde furiously chewed on a three-course meal piece of gum and suffered the consequences has the confectionery category seen such high levels of innovation and new product development ...