Clever carton for rice

Seen at ProFood Tech was a windowed carton for rice that is now rolling out in supermarkets across the country.

Ralston Family Farms has launched this windowed carton for rice.
Ralston Family Farms has launched this windowed carton for rice.

Ralston Family Farms of Atkins, AR, has only been in business a little over a year. But the firm has developed an unusual and attractive format for a 24-oz windowed carton of rice. Helping in its development on the machine side is Nimco with a modified Model 495 Slim filling machine. Providing the windowed carton, made from am 18-pt SBS paperboard with a coating of low-density polyethylene, is Carton Service.

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