News & Analysis on the Bakery and Snacks Industries
SPECIAL EDITION: Active, Smart & Intelligent Packaging
Incorporating an antimicrobial protein onto polyethylene terephthalate (PET) presents the “main characteristics” to be used in active food packaging.
SPECIAL EDITION: Active, Smart & Intelligent Packaging
Emerging technology from StampaSud is designed to give food and beverage customers a simple way to implement intelligent packaging on their products.
Organic food brand Cascadian Farm has upped the sustainability quotient of its packaging, pouring into the first-ever cereal box liner made from renewable plant sources.
SPECIAL EDITION: ACTIVE, SMART & INTELLIGENT PACKAGING
American crab meat company, Blue Star Foods, has partnered with Clip Creative in the UK to redesign the packaging of six of its patented pouch packs.
SPECIAL EDITION: ACTIVE, SMART & INTELLIGENT PACKAGING
Hotpack Packaging Industries, a UAE-based producer and wholesaler of disposable food packaging materials, has opened a $27.2m manufacturing and logistics unit in Dubai.
Bradford-based Seabrook crisps has slashed its products’ salt levels by 20% – but its boss says the industry as a whole is not getting the credit is deserves for undertaking such costly and challenging endeavours.
Canadian food packaging company, CKF has acquired Vancouver-based Earthcycle Packaging to expand its portfolio.
Voluntary folic acid fortification of bread is sufficient but maximum limits should be set and the market carefully monitored, a public health expert says.
Manufacturers of high-sugar ready-to-eat cereals are misleading and confusing kids in child-targeted TV advertising, researchers claim.
Sirane has unveiled a website geared toward packaging products for seafood applications.