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Market Trends: Pharmaceutical Packaging

Pot Luck: Cannabis Packaging Reaches New High

February 16, 2018

Cannabis continues to grow with many countries legalizing its usage, creating a new packaging segment. In 2018, Canada is expected to fully legalize marijuana, and the U.S. appears to be heading down the same path as more states approve its medical and recreational use.

Taylor Weiss, assistant professor at Arizona State University (ASU)

Materials Technology: Sustainable Materials

Scaling Up Manufacture of Bioplastics

February 13, 2018

University researches method to make biodegradable plastic using bacteria and algae. The world is awash in discarded plastics. A recent estimate of the amount of plastic in the earth’s environment puts it at 6.3 billion metric tons.

Cover Story: Food Packaging

What’s Cooking in Food Packaging?

Consumer trends driving developments that enhance food shopping

John Kalkowski

February 12, 2018

Consumers have become accustomed to having a wide variety of foods available to them from all corners of the world, no matter what season it may be. The days of being able to eat what is grown or raised on your own plot of land are long gone, especially as the world becomes more urbanized.

Machinery Technology: Inspection/ Detection

Inspection & Detection: Validation, Monitoring and Verification Processes

These processes are critical to the effectiveness of food safety inspection systems.

Robert Rogers

February 12, 2018

The U.S. Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA) requires that food manufacturing and processing companies identify potential hazards in their production systems and then put in place preventive controls to address those hazards.

Healthcare Compliance Packaging Council Column

The Role Packaging Plays in the Opioid Crisis

Walt Berghahn

January 16, 2018

The Federal Drug Administration (FDA) is putting a full court press on the opioid crisis, and unit-dose packaging looks to be part of the team.

Materials Technology: Barrier Films

Making Ends Meat: Packaging Offers Food Safety, Longer Shelf Life

Chub packaging gains ground as it delivers safe food and longer shelf life.

January 16, 2018

Today's chub packaging for meats simplifies handling for consumers and on the packaging line. When research showed consumers want to minimize contact with raw meat, Cargill added an easy-peel feature to its Our Certified brand of ground beef in one-pound chubs.

Materials Technology: Rigid Packaging

Pack to the Future with Rigid Packaging

Rigid plastic containers are making a comeback—and should continue to do so in the foreseeable future.

Kristen Kazarian

January 15, 2018

Rigid plastic is seeing innovations that challenge its rivals. Add to that the increasing use of bioplastics, reusable plastics and improved barrier properties, and rigid plastic containers definitely have a solid role in packaging.

Market Trends: Blow Molding

In-House Blow-Molding Offers Advantages

Advances make container molding more attractive for beverage operations.

Kathie Canning

January 15, 2018

Numerous processors of drinkable yogurts, other ready-to-drink (RTD) dairy beverages and RTD nondairy beverages rely on blow-molded bottles for their products. In many cases, these bottles are produced elsewhere and delivered to the processing facilities.

Cover Story: Packaging Innovations

Top Innovations in Packaging 2017

Innovators unveil packaging concepts that respond to consumer trends.

John Kalkowski

January 11, 2018

The year 2017 saw a number of developments in products and changes in consumer attitudes that prompted the design of inventive packaging designed to meet emerging needs.

F4 robots at the Destrooper-Olivier installation

Machinery Technology: Filling & Closing

Packaging Robots Offer Gentle Handling for Star Product

Belgian biscuit manufacturer Destrooper-Olivier relies on packing technology from Gerhard Schubert GmbH for its flagship Almond Thins.

Georg Koutsogiannis i.A.

January 11, 2018

Family owned Destrooper-Olivier, a well-known manufacturer of Belgian bakery products worldwide, was looking for a packaging solution for its award-winning almond biscuits which, in addition to high efficiency, would ensure gentle handling of the fragile baked goods.