News on Packaging Equipment

United Biscuits (UBUK), is announcing its first wave of new products, promotions and reformulations to drive sales for retailers in 2011.

New research reveals that the costs of labelling changes for the food and drink industry are “substantially greater” than European and UK legislators have previously estimated.

The latest edition of Interpom | Primeurs in Kortrijk, Belgium didn't only seem to be a record edition concerning the number of exhibitioners and used surface ... also the number of visitors increased

Prins Verpakkingstechniek will introduce at the Interpom | Primeurs 2010 exhibition in Kortrijk, its re-styled, carrousel shaped multihead weigher specially designed for unpeeled potatoes.

In flexible packaging, aluminum foil (hereafter foil) is the benchmark for barrier substrates when the requirements are protection against gases, moisture, and light.

The prosperity index of equipment manufacturing industry from China Economic Monitoring Center indicated that after the seasonal adjustment, the growth rate of packaging equipments in Q3 reached 37.2 percent year on year.

This morning, with its partners and several guests from the food and packaging fields in attendance, Polytechnique Montréal inaugurated the NSERC/Saputo/Excel Pac Industrial Research Chair in Materials and films for safe, smart and sustainable (3S) packaging.

In the last PotatoPro Newsletter 'Chips bags from potato peel? Biodegradable snack packaging' we focused on the changes Frito-Lay was making to the 'noisy'biodegradable Sunchips bags. Sunchips original will continue to be sold in the 'noisy'compostable bags, but all other Sunchips versions will be packed in regular (non-compostable) packaging until an improved biodegradable packaging is developed.

Boulder Canyon™ Natural Foods, a leading North American snack food manufacturer, has introduced a renewable, fully compostable pack for its line of All Natural Kettle Cooked Potato Chips.

Magnetic Products, Inc. (MPI), a worldwide provider of both magnetic and non-magnetic material handling solutions, is pleased to announce its partnership with Cassel Messtechnik GmbH.

Klamath Basin Fresh Direct have found a way with their packaging, which is developed by Fox Packaging, to stop 99% of damaging light from reaching their potatoes. Potatoes are very sensitive to light and will turn green when they are exposed to light for too long.

Last week we included two articles on 'interactive'packaging and the use of labels to link to a website, video or application:

There are lots of factors that affect the amount that people eat. It is now well-known that large plates will lead people at a buffet to fill them with more food than small plates and so they end up eating more.

Key Technology announces the launch of its Integrated Solutions Group (ISG) and the introduction of new line integration services.

Technical Help in Engineering and Marketing (T.H.E.M.) and Zip-Pak will showcase the Zipbox™ at PACK EXPO International 2010

What do you get when you combine a consumer society that is increasingly mobile, global, and “linked in,” one that demands the delivery of data to their fingertips 24/7, with packaged goods producers clamoring to differentiate themselves on and off the shelf?