Not a Wasted Effort for Milk

By Joan Mantini Div Chopra, Ph.D, president and CEO of Noluma has almost 20 years of experience in packaging and industrial polymers leading the teams that develop and leverage innovative light-protection technology for the consumer-packaged goods sector. Chopra spent the last five years focusing specifically on research related to light-protective packaging to understand firsthand the…

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Hold the Cheese? Not for This Busy Iowa Production Plant

Minnesota Company Uses Plastic Energy Chain to Help Solve Processing Pain By Dan Thompson, Product Manager for igus energy chain systems Like any industry, cheese manufacturers are susceptible to production downtime due to the breakdown of mechanical equipment. Which is precisely what happened at an Iowa creamery when a stainless steel chain in a finishing…

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Ranpak Named Finalist in National Geographic and Sky Ocean Ventures’ Ocean Plastic Innovation Challenge

Ranpak Holdings Corp.  (Ranpak), an international provider of sustainable packaging solutions, has been named as one of twenty-four finalists in the Ocean Plastic Innovation Challenge, a global search initiated by National Geographic Society and Sky Ocean Ventures to identify innovative solutions that help tackle the world’s single-use plastic problem. Ranpak’s WrapPak® Protector was selected from…

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The Journey

If I were to ask someone if they “tracked” their food, chances are they would immediately think of an app that allows them to input what they ate for the day (some even by scanning the QR code on the package), and then the app would provide them with a tallied count of their daily…

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SencorpWhite Announces New Distribution Agreement with WM Thermoforming Machines

SencorpWhite announced a new distribution agreement for the U.S. and Canada with WM Thermoforming Machines. WM Thermoforming Machines of Stabio, Switzerland,  designs and manufactures both in-line and tilt-bed thermoformers that will expand market presence for SencorpWhite. Its FC and Flex Series in-line thermoformers are all-electric with the size and through-put that complements SencorpWhite 2500 and…

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A Packaging Perspective in Frozen Foods

Five Things to Consider When Choosing Equipment for Your Frozen Foods Packaging Line By Triangle Package Machinery Company When you’re packaging frozen foods, selecting the right equipment to package your product requires a lot of thought and research. You may have different considerations than companies that package other types of products, such as rice or…

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PCD New York 2019 Conference Program Announced: Future Beauty Packaging Live

ADF&PCD New York 2019 – September 17 & 18, 2019 – Altman Building & Metropolitan Pavilion – New York City Packaging of Perfume Cosmetics & Design (PCD) has announced its program for the fourth annual ADF&PCD New York conference, held September 17 & 18, 2019 at the Altman Building & Metropolitan Pavilion in New York…

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Pretium Packaging Acquires Starplex Scientific

Pretium Packaging, has acquired Starplex Scientific Inc., from Apotex Corp. The Starplex acquisition reportedly supports Pretium’s growth objectives in the medical and consumer healthcare market sectors. Starplex Scientific has product lines including leak-resistant sterilized containers, biological sampling swabs and pharmaceutical grade containers and closures. Its products serve the clinical, laboratory and drug manufacturing markets in…

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