What solutions exist to reduce the amount of plastic in food and beverage packaging? How can they be sustainably disposed of? And are consumers ready to adopt them? FoodNavigator hears from Great Wrap, Huhtamaki, and Foodbytes! by Rabobank.
Accelerated demand from emerging markets, shrewd management of raw material price hikes and favourable currency translations all contributed to a “solid” performance in 2010, said Huhtamaki.
Huhtamaki has posted improved year-on-year figures for the first half of 2010 as it predicted better returns in H2 despite continued uncertainties in the market.
Finnish packaging supplier, Huhtamaki, is scaling back its rigid plastic operations in North America with the closure of its production unit in Phoenix, Arizona.
Finnish packaging giant Huhtamaki is providing Andros with a range
of packaging solutions for its latest children's fruit-based snack
line, that includes a new bottling technology.
Finnish packaging giant Huhtamaki has launched a complete range of
single-use cold drink cups, plates, containers and cutlery based on
renewable raw materials.
Distribution in sparsely populated countries such as Finland is a
perennial problem, especially when it comes to perishable foods
such as meat and poultry. Having worked in this geographic
environment for years, Finnish packaging...
Another packaging company, another set of disappointing financial
results. This time it's consumer packaging specialist Huhtamaki,
which has reported earnings before interest, tax and amortisation
(EBITA) of €34 million in the...
Packaging firm Huhtamaki has launched the Fruitbox Carré, which the
company claims is ideally suited for protecting tomatoes on the
vine. The product is the latest in a line of moulded fibre packs
produced by the Finnish-based group.
Huhtamaki, the Finnish-based consumer packaging specialist with
worldwide operations, will build a moulded fibre egg packaging unit
adjacent to its existing packaging facility in the greater Moscow
area.
In Finland, Huhtamaki has tackled the problem of creating
recyclable in-flight food service packaging - an area of food
packaging that, because of security reasons and convenience, has
remained highly wasteful.
According to Finnish packaging provider Huhtamaki a new trend is
clearly emerging in the demand for traypacks . The company says
that keeping the design eco-friendly and costs low have been the
major influences for its most recent...