Beverage

Cooler bag for beer wins top FPA award

Designed to be opened up and filled with up to 5 lb of ice, this multilayer and reusable bag replaces the traditional paperboard beer carton yet allows the brewery to merchandise its product in the manner consumers are used to seeing.

March 7, 2019

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Beverage

Addressing a need for more speed

An existing line dedicated to 500-mL PET bottles couldn’t produce more than 42,000 bottles/hr. So management at Altmühltaler Mineralbrunnen decided it had to be replaced.

March 7, 2019

Beverage

Over 20-year span, some challenges persist

Who knew that the process of producing handled PET containers would remain an area of development and interest over 20 years.

March 7, 2019

Dry Processing

Conveyor designed for food product settling, singulation and orientation

Offers elementary, cost-effective, high-speed transition

March 6, 2019

Processing Equipment

Nibbler delivers flexible, comprehensive size reduction

An explosion-proof version is available

March 6, 2019

Conveying & Product Handling

Optimizing the sorting and filling of returnable glass

Flooded with returnable glass bottles of varying types, this brewer needed an efficient method of sorting out its own distinct bottles from the rest; a new filling line completes the upgrade.

March 6, 2019

Regulatory

FDA publishes second installment of intentional adulteration draft guidance

Food facilities covered by the rule will be required to develop and implement a food defense plan that identifies vulnerabilities and mitigation strategies for those vulnerabilities.

March 5, 2019

Beverage

Fit4style spray revs sports nutrition market

Portable energy spray in a replaceable pouch/sachet helps boost stamina during high-endurance workouts and sports activities.

March 5, 2019

Beverage

Flat wine bottle gets complementary case

London-based Garçon Wines, inventors of the eco-friendly Flat Wine Bottle, has launched an innovative 10-count corrugated case that will significantly cut carbon emissions and logistics costs from the supply chain of wine.

March 5, 2019

Beverage

America loves its coffee, but you can kick Grandpa’s coffee can down the road

Flexible packaging totally dominates the whole bean and ground coffee categories, according to Euromonitor.

March 4, 2019

Processing Equipment

Water filtering system reduces poultry labor costs

Makes water clean enough to be used a second time

March 2, 2019

Beverage

What is America drinking?

That’s the question Gary Hemphill of Beverage Marketing Corp. answered at The Packaging Conference when he rolled out fresh market data from 2018 and provided a peek at trends for 2019.

March 1, 2019

Dairy

Form, function define ice cream pack

The high quality, user-friendliness, and eye-catching decoration of this new ice cream package were key factors in its selection for a new range of ice-creams from Russian manufacturer Taice.

March 1, 2019