Prepared & Canned Foods

2011 FPA Silver Award Winners

The following award winners took home Silver Awards in the 2011 FPA Awards competition.

February 11, 2011

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MOCON announces 2011 free webinar series

MOCON, Inc. has announced the 2011 schedule of its free popular educational webinars.

February 11, 2011

Beverage

Getting personal

The commercial printing industry has a technology that could migrate to packaging and have a sizable impact. It’s called personalization, and it rests on a three-legged stool of variable printing, affinity marketing, and automated route sequencing.

February 10, 2011

Beverage

Snack portion olives 'packed loose without the juice'

“The pop-able olive that is unstoppable!” That’s how Plant City, FL, specialty food importer and distributor Mario Camacho Foods describes its new snack-size olive portions packed in portable, single-serve, stand-up pouches.

February 10, 2011

Beverage

Multipacks say 'So long' to corrugated materials

Water bottler debuts first shrink-wrapped 24-pack using new staggered-bottle configuration that completely eliminates the need for a corrugated tray or pad.

February 9, 2011

Dairy

A closed-loop RPET first

Ice River Springs buys baled PET in metro Toronto, cleans it, and turns it into 100% PCR RPET water bottles that it fills and sends to the marketplace.

February 9, 2011

Beverage

Plan to attend Sustainable Packaging Symposium 2011

Greener Package and the American Institute of Chemical Engineers' (AIChE) Institute for Sustainability have combined resources to produce a new conference, Sustainable Packaging Symposium 2011—Advancing the Greener Supply Chain, which will focus on the technical foundations of successful sustainability programs.

February 9, 2011

Beverage

Survey measures packaging's importance and packagers' strengths

Survey of packagers shows where priorities are. But with each key capability, survey respondents across industries indicate there’s plenty of room for improvement.

February 9, 2011

Beverage

Coca-Cola wins Mobius Awards for themed packaging

Designs reflect the spirit of the Winter Games and summer activities, and take home honors in the Packaging Design category.

February 9, 2011

Soups, Condiments, Sauces, Spices, Dips & Dressings

Digitally printed label lends personality to Wisconsin bistro's sauce

Carmella’s Italian Bistro. When the family-owned restaurant in Appleton, WI, decided to market its popular, authentic Carmella’s House Marinara Sauce outside of the bistro, the owners concluded that the right label design was essential for conveying the personality of the restaurant, while also allowing Carmella’s sauce to stand out on shelf at four local retail outlets.

February 8, 2011

Beverage

Where have all the leaders gone?

Editor’s note: Mike Richmond was inducted into the Packaging Hall of Fame during this past Pack Expo International.

February 8, 2011

Beverage

Coors Banquet beer joins heritage packaging bandwagon

Brewer’s nostalgic packaging is another sign that the trend toward designs that celebrate a brand’s past has legs with consumers.

February 3, 2011

Dairy

EPA releases 2009 waste disposal data

Containers and packaging make up the largest portion of MSW generated by weight: almost 30%, or about 72 million tons.

February 3, 2011