Items Tagged with 'packaging material handling'

Plastics, paper and other packaging materials bring many benefits to the food supply chain, including sterility and prolonged shelf life. However, there is the potential for transfer of chemicals from the packaging to the food, which is why FDA regulations surrounding food contact materials exist. Understanding this legislation is key to creating effective, safe and legally compliant packaging.

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.

Shipping major manufacturing equipment around the globe is no simple task, requiring significant logistics planning and coordination between manufacturers and suppliers. For Mayfran International, a Cleveland-based leader in scrap and material handling solutions, delivering its conveyor systems to customers in the same quality condition in which they left the manufacturing floor is a top priority. 

Motion Industries Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Genuine Parts Company, announces that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Apache, Inc., headquartered in Cedar Rapids, IA. 

Wildeck's new “RML” product categorywith the new RiderLift™ Rideable Material Lift is an innovative and affordable lift that increases material handling efficiency and meets ASME A17.1/CSA B44 “Safety Code for Elevators and Escalators.”