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.
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.
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.
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.
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.