As demand for ready meals grows, so does the need to detect contaminants in products bound for human consumption. Eagle Product Inspection offers advanced x-ray equipment that provides detection of foreign bodies that can wind up in sub-compartments in ready meals, whether those meals are refrigerated, shelf stable or frozen.
One of the fastest growing options for differentiation comes through in-mold labeling, especially for packaging of food products with a shorter lifespan, such as butter, margarine, ice cream, cottage cheese, yogurt and other dairy items.
Bona partnered with TricorBraun on a packaging re-design project to align aesthetics and improve functionality of the Bona family of hard floor surface cleaning products. Improvements maintained Bona’s existing retail footprint while including an anti-glug feature and an ergonomic handle.
Hiland Dairy redesigned its ice cream packaging in response to consumer and grocer requests for more food label transparency and less packaging waste. The company is also introducing three new flavors for summer.
TEKLYNX International has launched LABEL MATRIX, LABELVIEW, CODESOFT, LABEL ARCHIVE and SENTINEL. These barcode labeling software solutions are built to improve labeling efficiency, accuracy and automation for manufacturers of all sizes.
Two limited time offerings, for Trolli and Black Forest candy, turned red, white and blue for this summer and the Fourth of July, with designs by Hughes BrandMix.
The new Mettler Toledo CV3770 combination inspection system offers accurate weight measurement and high-performance label inspection in one compact machine. It helps ensure accurate product weight, comply with labeling guidelines and weights and measures legislation, and minimize product rework, retrieval and recovery.
FINE & RAW, a craft chocolatier based in Brooklyn, N.Y., has launched its redesigned signature line, featuring colorful packaging, two new flavors and thinner bars.
Summertime snacking just got easier with new grab-and-go snack cups by WHOLLY GUACAMOLE. The new line of portable snack cups features its signature guacamole made from hand-scooped Hass avocados and tortilla chips, in two separate compartments.
The PopLok, by Eagle Packaging Machinery, is a customizable automatic tray forming solution designed to erect self-locking corrugated and paperboard trays with or without a lid, and is capable of forming 1-tuck, 2-tuck, and multi-tuck trays.