Prepared & Canned Foods

High-volume retailers set the pace for packaging

Consumer packaged goods companies follow high-volume retailers’ packaging lead as they seek to align with retailer strategies, brand positioning.

January 11, 2008

Leaders (UNIVERSAL TAXONOMY PFW): Page 344

Prepared & Canned Foods

Artegraft switches to copolyester for vascular graft tubes

Company transitions from cylindrical glass culture tubes for its collagen vascular grafts to a copolyester-based tube with a flat side, helping to prevent breakage and save money.

January 10, 2008

Beverage

Newman's Own Organics coffee bags restructured

Reshaped bags from Green Mountain Coffee Roasters boast new graphics in a 'greener' structure.

January 10, 2008

Beverage

PLA: A converter's viewpoint

Chris Burger, coffee product manager of Fres-Co System USA, offers his take on using polylactic acid (PLA), a sustainable material derived from corn, in film structures for coffee bags.

January 10, 2008

Beverage

Comments on Changes in Dec. 2007 Chemistry Recommendations

Below are the insights and comments of Kristina E. Paquette, PhD on FDA’s December 2007 revisions to its Chemistry Recommendations guidance document. Dr. Paquette had served as a chemist in FDA’s Office of Food Additive safety until mid-2007, and was personally involved in developing some of the revisions.

January 9, 2008

Dairy

The evolution of natural as a lifestyle choice

It’s all about stewardship, life, and energy, and it’s playing out in the beauty and health and wellness categories.

January 9, 2008

Beverage

Coffees, teas tap shelf stability in use

A foodservice BIB pack uses a unique tap that maintains shelf stability after opening.

January 9, 2008

Beverage

The wrap-up: Wacky warning label winners

'Danger: Avoid Death' wins top prize in 11th annual Wacky Warning Label Contest.

January 7, 2008

Beverage

Patent search site

A comprehensive Web site for searches of patents related to packaging and everything else.

January 7, 2008

Beverage

3125 wipe-on label applicator

The Label-Aire Model 3125 Wipe-On Label Applicator delivers on its promise of speed, accuracy, and ease of use. That translates into lower operating costs and increased productivity for your business.

December 31, 2007

Beverage

Bringing MES to medical device packaging

Stirling Medical Innovations is implementing a Manufacturing Execution System (MES) that Stirling project leader Colin Boyd calls "the way of the future."

December 14, 2007

Dairy

New tea totes top-notch labels

Ten-color gravure print gives PVC shrink labels impact.

December 10, 2007

Beverage

Internet seminar on basics of barriers in flexible packaging

Three separate seminars from MOCON discuss permeation principles and how they impact testing methods. Covers the relationship between permeation, solubility and diffusion. Compares barrier properties of the most important traditional high barrier resins like EVOH, Nylon, PVdC with more recent additions to the barrier offering like PGA, COCs, MXD6 and different types of polyesters including PET, PEN and LCPs.

December 9, 2007