There are some exciting opportunities ahead as the future of packaging knows no bounds, according to Cambridge Design Partnership (CDP), but how can manufacturers tap into this space while taking into consideration the high costs?
With sugar reduction in full swing, the sales opportunity in the salty snacks category is growing fast to the tune of 3.7% annually with a projected $22 billion in sales in the US in 2015, according to a recent Packaged Facts report. And innovative manufacturers...
With plummeting winter temperatures sending much of the US into a deep freeze, it's prime time for a bowl of hot, steamy soup. Here are some examples of creative soup packaging to help warm you up.
Food packaging firm ILPA said its ‘leased’ takeover of fellow Italian company AMP Film and Packaging would allow it to become self-sufficient in the production of rPET with an annual capacity of around 10,000 tons.
RPC Group said the time lag in passing on record raw material costs to its customers had hit its full year 2010 results – but that revenue has still jumped year-on-year.
The UK Food Standards Agency (FSA) has said it will campaign for a change in European law to allow the production of smoked skin-on sheep meat for human consumption.
Food ingredients prices rose at the fastest rate since 1998 in
August, says a new report released just as ministers warn that the
worst of the hikes is yet to come - a particularly for meat.
Austrian-based packaging giant the Frantschach Group has completed
yet another acquisition, this time in Mexico. The company has
acquired the sack business of paper and packaging group Copamex for
a total of $52 million, in a deal...
Frantschach has completed the acquisition of an industrial sack
plant near Chicago, USA. The move is designed to consolidate the
firm's position across the Atlantic and open up new opportunities
for the export business in the...
Sensor Wireless of Canada is to release its newest wireless real
time monitoring system, DTS, as an additional feature for its Smart
Bottle, Smart Can, and Universal PD sensor systems.
With growing awareness of the problem of acrylamide in processed
foods, German company Retsch is coming to the fore with its two
testing systems, one for fatty foods, the other for defatted and
degreased foods.
Posimat, the Spain-based provider of unscrambling and conveyor
logistics solutions, is about to launch its Posimaster Multichute
high-speed bottle line unscrambler at the Hispack show in Barcelona
on 31 March.
The Institute of Packaging has announced a "positive and swift
response" to its 'Packaging the Stars of the Future' literature,
created as part of its campaign to raise awareness of Schools and
Student Starpack...
The Danish Crown group, a leading pork meat processor, made an
interim profit of DKK 578 million (€77m) for the first half of the
financial year 2001/02.
