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The demand for smaller packs will manifest in the market with packs at a maximum size of 250 milliliter, growing at an annual rate of 5.2% between 2013 and 2016.

The number of American consumers who consider healthfulness when purchasing their food and beverages has shown a significant uptick in the past two years.

This June Dairy Month, the National Frozen & Refrigerated Foods Association will partner with celebrity chef Aida Mollenkamp to show consumers that they may be missing out on the most exciting and convenient aisle in the supermarket.

PMMI members this month voted to expand its definition of “General Member” to include companies that manufacture processing machinery in North America.

The recent staging of interpack, PROCESSES AND PACKAGING 2014, was characterized by an outstanding atmosphere among the approximately 2,700 exhibitors and 175,000 visitors in the 19 halls of the completely booked Düsseldorf Exhibition Center.

Mexico is now the world’s second largest consumer of PET bottles, and leading the way in PET recycling, finds new report from Canadean.

Over the last few years the stand-up pouch has emerged as one of the most versatile and rapidly growing flexible packaging formats which is being adopted worldwide for an increasingly wide variety of end-use applications.

An alliance of food manufacturers, retailers and foodservice operators announce the release of a toolkit to help businesses in the food sector reduce the amount of food waste sent to landfill.

The global biodegradable packaging industry has seen a shift in paradigm and has now moved towards efficient and advanced packaging.

The survey of 400 executives and managers at food and beverage retail companies found that 97% of retail executives believe that consumers are driving a demand for green packaging and 98% of these professionals anticipate an increase in this demand within the next year.