Robots Connect With Food in Hygienic Environments

At PACK EXPO Las Vegas, Stäubli demos its capabilities in fresh food, including work in washdown and sterile environments, with its fully enclosed robots.

Oct 1st, 2019

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New International Guidance Set to Improve Social Responsibility in the Global Food Chain

Social responsibility is not only good for business, it is everyone’s business. New international guidance for the agri-food sector has just been published.

Valio of Finland is testing this injection-molded lid made of a biocomposite.

Lids formed from a biocomposite

Valio, Finland’s largest dairy, will distribute 10,000 wood fiber-based, injection-molded, snap-on, reusable lids made from a biocomposite, while encouraging consumers to reduce food waste.

Automation and Robotics are Top Two Operational Improvements for Food Manufacturers

Food Manufacturers Top Two Improvement Priorities

Operational improvements that impact food manufacturers the most continue to focus on automation and robotics.

Tetra Pak Launches Virtual Marketplace for Food and Beverage Manufacturers

It will initially host more than 300,000 spare parts and consumables from Tetra Pak, then add 200,000 products for maintenance, repair and operations from vetted sellers.

The redesign, which included packaging for the company’s Original Honey Smoked Fish and five other flavors, ‘is highly inspired by the original, with a design that takes its cues from old fish market signage.’

Salmon with a Smile: Fish Brand’s Bold Personality Captured in Redesign

New label graphics for Honey Smoked Fish Co.’s salmon products evokes the original founder’s ‘big personality,’ while taking its cues from old fish market signage.

Get recognized for sustainability in food and beverage processing

Get recognized for sustainability in food and beverage processing

ProFood World will honor food and beverage manufacturers who display exceptional improved performance through sustainability. Nominations are open; awards will be conferred in Chicago, June 9-10.

Molson Coors Stopping Production at Irwindale, California

Gives Pabst option to purchase facility

Seven key steps for a capital project RFP

RFP Process Challenges and Solutions

Having upfront clarity into needs and establishing standards for what to use (and why), are the two biggest shortcomings cited by Vision 2025 participants in the Request for Proposal process.

For consumer packaged goods companies that want to inspect and test final packaging seals during production, the Seal-Sensor can be integrated into a packaging line.

Ultrasound Technology Analyzes Seal Integrity Accurately and Reliably

PTI’s Seal-Scan and Seal-Sensor test packaging seals in a noninvasive, nondestructive manner both on and off the production line, respectively.

MAP (Modified Atmosphere Packaging) preserves food and extends shelf life

MAP Leads Fresh Food Preservation Methods

Modified Atmosphere Packaging is prevalent among participants of a new PMMI Business Intelligence report, but technologies such as High Pressure Processing (HPP) are continuing to expand as well.

Young Living, headquartered in Utah with farms and operations around the world, makes a wide range of essential oils and other products.

Hitting Essential Filling Speeds for Essential Oils

With expansions in pharmaceutical, medical, and food and beverage applications, the essential oil market is booming. Young Living turned to Syntegon (formerly Bosch Packaging) to triple its filler speed and improve yield.

ProFood Live Helps F&B Manufacturers Succeed

ProFood Live Helps F&B Manufacturers Succeed

Join us in Chicago in June for this one-day conference devoted to delivering real-world solutions for processors in the food and beverage manufacturing industry.

Conagra Brands Announces Sustainable Packaging Goal

Is striving to make 100% of current plastic packaging renewable, recyclable, or compostable by 2025

Brillo sculpture from 1964 not only pays homage to beautiful package graphics, the Brillo boxes were produced in a 'factory' and displayed like products on a store shelf.

The Power of Iconic Package Design

Warhol retrospective at Chicago’s Art Institute recalls how iconic brands and their alluring package design inspired the pop art movement and catapulted the artist into history.

Recycling Photo

Nestlé Creates Market for Food-Grade Recycled Plastics, Launches Fund to Boost Packaging Innovation

Nestlé today announced that it will invest up to CHF 2 billion to lead the shift from virgin plastics to food-grade recycled plastics and to accelerate the development of innovative sustainable packaging solutions.

Bag Discharge Model Xym15 Vffs Bagger

Bagger, Weigher Lead to 100% Production Improvement

This California poultry producer had been experiencing bad seals, incorrect package weights, and low speeds, but it realized a 100% improvement in production with a new bagging and weighing system.

Financing Gender Equality in Manufacturing

PPWLN Keynote speakers address the broken rung and economic empowerment.

Multifunctional Equipment: Challenges and Solutions

Multifunctional Equipment: Challenges and Solutions Faced by CPGs Today

Finding a standardized process to manage changeover, and balancing flexibility, reliability and cost are some of the major pain points for Vision 2025 participants.

Vital Proteins Collagen Options

Rotary Filler Helps Keep Pace With Booming Collagen Market

To keep up with skyrocketing demand for its collagen powders, Vital Proteins turned to Spee-Dee Packaging Machinery and its rotary filler. It boosted production from 20 to 100 plastic canisters a minute, also improving safety and ease of operation.

Miura, 2 Others Introduce Steam-as-a-Service

Aim to solve major challenges facing steam users, such as capital funding, a declining workforce expertise, and subpar system efficiencies

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PSSI Integrates Packers Chemical into Unified Brand Strategy

Packers Chemical, Inc. now to be known as PSSI Chemical Innovations

Oatly's Non-Dairy Frozen Dessert uses paperboard pint packaging that uses a biopolymer coating to resist moisture.

Oatly Frozen Dessert is Plant-Based from Product through Packaging

Using oats rather than cow’s milk for its frozen dessert, Oatly also opts for a paperboard ice-cream pint container with a coating made from sugarcane rather than petroleum.

Taylor Farms Achieves Industry First Sustainability Milestones

Three facilities now Total Resource Use and Efficiency (TRUE) platinum zero waste certified and more than 90% energy independent

Food Manufacturers Look to Reduce, Recycle and Reuse

Food Manufacturers Look to Reduce, Recycle and Reuse

Improvements to recyclability and sustainability, along with the desire to extend shelf life and prevent contamination, are some of the drivers of change in packaging formats and materials.

PepsiCo Aims to Achieve 100% Renewable Electricity in the U.S.

Global headquarters completes solar energy installation

Voice of the Food Manufacturer: Equipment Needs

Voice of the Food Manufacturer: Equipment Needs

Cleaning, sanitation, changeovers and data collection are all top of mind for food manufacturers considering equipment needs today.

Roberta Barbieri, Vice President Global Sustainability, PepsiCo,

PepsiCo Accelerates Plastic Waste Reduction Efforts

Roberta Barbieri, Vice President Global Sustainability, PepsiCo, shares the strategies the company is using to reach its ambitious new sustainable packaging goals.

How to Identify Emerging Leaders in Manufacturing

How to Identify Emerging Leaders

As the generational workforce shift looms with more than 2.7 million baby boomers preparing to retire, OEMs need to bridge the generational divide, retain tribal knowledge, and ensure a lasting legacy. Here’s how to do it.

PepsiCo’s bubly sparkling water line was among the Top 25 Breakthrough Innovations, aligning with sparkling water’s position as the fastest-growing category in bottled water, at 30%.

Top 25 Breakthrough CPG Product Innovations of 2019

Products on the list include those in the food and beverage, personal care, OTC, and petcare categories and reflect consumer trends such as good-for-you ingredients, convenience, and a move away from traditional beverage products, among others.

New Consumer Brands Association Launches

Forges modern path for consumer packaged goods industry

Flowers Foods Brands

Flowers Foods Expanding Operations

Will transform Virginia bakery into organic facility

Sara Lee Frozen Bakery Announces Expansion

Is set to start major project at existing North Carolina facility