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Call for Entries: Dow Packaging Awards

January 24, 2019

The Packaging Innovation Awards is an independently judged program that previously operated under the DuPont name until 2018. Winners must show advances in technology, customer experience and responsible packaging across the industry.

High pressure processing offers sustainability

Sustainability Advantages of High Pressure Food Processing

How HPP cuts waste, lowers emissions and helps build a healthier, safer planet.

Lisa Wessels

January 23, 2019

The growth of high pressure processing (HPP) is driven by consumer demand for fresh taste without chemicals or preservatives. But that’s not the only reason why food processors and retailers choose HPP. It also delivers sustainability and cost saving advantages over other processing methods, such as thermal.

Embracing Sustainability in Food and Beverage Processing

Tackling Ethical Consumption in a Growing World

Jorge Izquierdo

January 23, 2019

As the Earth’s population is expected to grow by more than two billion people in the next 30 years according to a 2017 United Nations report, it will become more imperative to address the sustainability of food processing. Population growth translates to higher required food output and consumers—specifically millennials—have concerns surrounding the environmental impact of today’s food supply chain. This leads them to seek out brands that proactively address the matter.

Smurfit Kappa Launches Better Planet Packaging Design Challenge

January 18, 2019

The competition is part of the company's drive to solve one of the biggest challenges in the packaging industry – to reduce the amount of non-recyclable waste that is generated every day.

Case Erector Brings High-End Features to Midrange Lines

January 17, 2019

A-B-C’s Model 300 case erector for 15-25 cpm production lines is a midrange machine that offers key production features of its higher speed Model 330 erector to deliver 24/7 reliable operation in a streamlined machine.

Many Join New Global Alliance to End Plastic Waste

January 16, 2019

Nearly 30 companies from the plastics and consumer goods value chain launched the new “Alliance to End Plastic Waste” (AEPW). The goal is to develop and bring to scale solutions that will minimize and manage plastic waste, and promote solutions for used plastics by helping to enable a circular economy.

CBD Finds Coffee and Tea Markets

January 16, 2019

Diamond CBD Inc., a leader in hemp extraction and innovative CBD products for the wellness market, enters the Coffee segment with the release of CBD-infused coffee & tea K-Kup capsules.

TTO Coder Targets Emerging Markets

January 15, 2019

Markem-Imaje is extending its thermal transfer overprinter (TTO) line of coders with a cost-efficient version targeting low- and medium-speed production lines of up to 600 mm per second initially for users in Asia-Pacific.

Consumers Choose Walmart as Top Spot for Groceries

January 14, 2019

Some 27 percent of grocery purchasers say Walmart is the in-store retailer they get groceries from most, more than twice as many as Kroger, the next most chosen retailer, according to market research firm Packaged Facts in the report "U.S. Grocery Market Focus: The Walmart Food Shopper."

Chobani Brings Plant-Based Yogurt to Dairy Case

January 14, 2019

The nine Non-Dairy Chobani products are coconut-based and packed with probiotics, less sugar than other non-dairy brands and only natural ingredients.