Plastic packaging provider Petainer will launch petainerJar, a new PET jar, designed specifically for food manufacturers. The petainerJar is claimed to be the cost effective and sustainable option over other jars, and has much less ...
Tags: Food Industry, Petainer, Pet Jar
Although 84 percent of Americans believe that eating breakfast is an essential part of their morning routine, 56 percent skip it several times a week or more. To address this gap for time-starved consumers, Hormel Foods has introduced ...
Tags: Hormel Foods, Breakfast Meals
B&G Foods, a US-based manufacturer of branded shelf-stable foods, has signed a deal to acquire Specialty Brands of America from American Capital and certain individuals for $155m in cash. Specialty Brands of America is a packaged food ...
Tags: B&G Foods, Specialty Brands, Evercore Group
Woolworths has announced new long-term milk supply contracts Australian supermarket giant Woolworths has announced two new 10-year milk contracts across Australia that it says "will give dairy farmers and processors more certainty to ...
Tags: Milk, Agriculture, Food
FKuR has been on a growth spurt. The company's flagship bioplastic, Bio-Flex, is a blend of blends of co-polyester and PLA with a very high content of natural resource material, and comes in thirteen grades. Each Bio-Flex packaging film ...
More than 90 packaging technologists, engineers and designers came together for the 2014 AIP/IGD Shelf Friendly Packaging (SFP) training which was held across two states and four Woolworths sites over two weeks in March. It was the third ...
The full colour, single pass press incorporates drop-on-demand inkjet technology using aqueous inks. The Corrstream comes in three ranges: 66, 40 and 20. Sun has linked up with an unnamed partner for the print heads. Mark Eaton, Sun ...
Fonterra Australia has secured a ten-year contract from Woolworths to supply and process the retailer’s own brand milk in Victoria. The deal allows farmers to further invest in their businesses as they have a guaranteed buyer for ...
Tags: Milk Supply, milk, local farmers
The premium on LNG cargoes delivered into the Asia Pacific market compared with Southwest Europe is down 63 cents/MMBtu, or roughly 19%, since early January on steady demand in the Atlantic Basin from South American buyers. Recent buy ...
In the last five years, the proportion of Australians drinking soft drinks such as colas and lemonades in an average seven days has declined from 56 per cent to 49 per cent, but could it be that more consumers are simply starting to enjoy a ...
Tags: Soft Drinks, Agriculture, Food, beverage
Stylish Tails cocktails are making a huge impact in the drinks world with their premium blends and innovative pack, which combines the design and engineering expertise of RPC Containers Market Rasen and Blackburn. Launched in early 2010, ...
Tip Top Foodservice, the specialist foodservice bakery division of George Weston Foods, has launched a new Burgen Gluten Free White Bread for the Australian foodservice industry. The new gluten free bread is frozen from fresh specifically ...
Tags: Agriculture, Food
MULTIVAC is presenting for the first time at interpack 2014 in Düsseldorf its new R 085 entry-level model for thermoforming packaging. The machine can be used for running both flexible films and rigid films. It is therefore suitable ...
Dairy products maker Saputo will close four of its facilities in Canada and the US, as part of efforts to improve its operational efficiency. The move is a part of the company's review of its overall activities to pursue additional ...
Multivac is presenting for the first time at interpack 2014 in Düsseldorf its new R 085 entry-level model for thermoforming packaging. The machine can be used for running both flexible films and rigid films. It is therefore suitable ...
Tags: Multivac, Entry-Level Machine, thermoforming packaging