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Credit Napoleon for all these wonderful food packages. As the Little Corporal and later emperor remarked, 'an army travels on its stomach.' Neither his soldiers nor their stomachs were doing [...]

PAPERBOARD packaging has been a mainstay of the food industry for generations. It sometimes gets taken for granted despite continual advances in production, coating, ink and printing technologies. But these [...]

Irradiation, UV light and high pressure emerge as effective treatments for producing a safer food supply. Food pathogens beware! The technologies designed to combat you are getting craftier and are [...]

STATE OF THE ART OVENS AND FRYERS SHORTEN COOKING TIMES, MAXIMIZE YIELD AND ADD FLEXIBILITY. The cook room of the future will offer food processors the ability to maximize yield, [...]

Optimal material handling systems require both economic and ergonomic assessments. Conveyors, lift equipment, and palletizing/depalletizing systems comprise such basic parts of production that it is sometimes easy to take them [...]

Deciding between volumetric and fill-to-level machines or rotary vs. straight-line systems requires careful thought. Here are some tips to expedite your analysis. Every product, every container, every packaging line comes [...]

Hope springs eternal that the technology can conquer and commercialize low acid particulates. Remember the movie 'On the Waterfront' - that scene in which Marlon Brando says to Rod Steiger, [...]

How five top food products use packaging to bowl over consumers. It's what's on the inside that counts - but it's how food and beverage packages are 'dressed' that can [...]

Charged up by some powerful alliances, the great expectations for this aseptic technology may be on the brink of realization. Far from finished - that's the way many food industry [...]

Food processing machinery manufacturers are seeking ways to improve form/fill/seal (FFS) machines to boost sales of food processors. Port Chatham Packing has installed a single horizontal FFS machine to improve canned salmon and trout chunks sales. On the other hand, Shade Foods uses a high-speed vertical FFS machine for packaging ingredients including chocolate chips and other confection.

Besieged by activists and barraged by new consumer demands, dairy processors are finding more ways to be bold and innovative. THE BOVINE GROWTH HORMONE HYSTERIA. Fear of fats. The long-lingering [...]

Packaging waste management laws and international consumer preferences are driving growth. In some European countries, one-way beverage bottles are no longer an option: Packaging waste management laws are mandating refillable/recyclable [...]

Just when you think you know the rules of the game, they change. That's certainly the case with food packaging--a world in which limitations and technological barriers to expanded product [...]

Bier hier, bitte! German brewery turns to turnkey for top-efficiency glass bottle handling. From front to back--from depalletizing of empty bottles to palletizing of filled crowned ones--Thurn und Taxis Royal [...]

Some degree of microbial contamination is inevitable on the surfaces of packing house meats--even when Good Manufacturing Practices, quality control and HACCP programs are faithfully followed. Carcass washing with fresh [...]

The leading consumer complaints about packaged taco shells are breakage and staleness. Nabisco, maker of Ortega brand taco shells, set out to develop packaging that could put the brakes on [...]

A few good products may be turning the tide for stand-up pouch packaging. The stand-up pouch, with its graphics versatility and distinctive shape, is a stand-out package on the crowded [...]

The technology's been out of the headlines lately, but it's not out of the hearts and minds of R&D'ers and product managers. There are some new things happening in aseptics. [...]

More than half of everything that is recycled in the United States is packaging. Over the past decade, while the U.S. population has grown by 10%, grocery packaging discards have [...]

Dateline: Dusseldorf, Germany--The world of packaging came together here for seven days in May, and everyone struggled with a common language of the environment. Dusseldorf's triennial Interpack Show, the world's [...]

Dateline: Berric, Brittany, France--Blazing a new technology trail, SPI (Societe de Proteines Industrielles) mechanically separates poultry meat from neck and back carcasses and sterilizes the meat with electron beam treatment. [...]

Radio frequency processing is a hot new technology for bakers and snack food manufacturers. When Tom's Foods, one of the Top 10 snack food companies in the United States, launched [...]

Internship programs help food companies tap young blood, creative juices of a new generation of packaging professionals. Where are the food packaging gurus of tomorrow coming from? And are they [...]

New developments in an old reliable packaging medium. Glass remains the packaging of choice for many food processors and consumers, for lots of reasons. Glass-packed foods often enjoy a 'premium' [...]

Powered by the winds of changing consumer attitudes and the waves of reshaping demographics, modified atmosphere packaging is sailing smoothly along. Inspired by success stories from Europe, U.S. food companies [...]

Shelf-stable processing/packaging technologies will be an R&D priority for food companies in the 90s, according to the findings of the 1992 FOOD PROCESSING/FOOD BUSINESS Packaging Survey. Seventy percent of survey [...]

Survey reveals revived recognition of the versatility and virtues of an often overlooked technology COLD-FILLING IS A TECHNIQUE that food processors intend to use more of during the next 5 [...]

Pack Expo '92 will be staged by the Packaging Machinery Manufacturers Institute on November 812 at Chicago's McCormick Place. More than 1000 exhibitors will occupy 800,000+ square feet of floor [...]

THESE |SUPER-BARRIER' MATERIALS ARE MICROWAVEABLE, RETORTABLE, AND RECYCLABLE. SOME ECONOMIC AND TECHNOLOGICAL HURDLES REMAIN, BUT RESEARCHERS ARE WAGERING THEY ARE NOT INSURMOUNTABLE. Silica-coated (also commonly referred to as glass-coated) plastics [...]

Packaging materials R&D is high-activity and multi-directional. Food and beverage processors are continuously challenged to keep pace with all the new developments that can impact on how they package their [...]

No matter how much time, money and imagination you put into formulating and marketing your products, failed packaging can obliterate all your best efforts. Stale, spoiled or contaminated product almost [...]

Implementation of radio frequency identification technology isn't as simple as just slapping an RFID tag on a shipping case or pallet. Several variables come into play. First you should make [...]

The retort pouch may be on the rebound. Heralded in the 1970s and 1980s as a packaging technology with outstanding applications potential to challenge metal cans and glass jars, retort [...]

Varied and wonderful, the successful life-forms of our planet are exquisitely shaped by evolutionary forces, honed by competition, physically fine-tuned to their environment, and so on. What, then, can one [...]

A bevy of new beverage packages turned heads in the marketplace in 1996. Trying to narrow these new entries down to a list of the 'best' is a difficult and [...]

The next generation of freezers - crossbred systems - improve product quality and operational efficiency. There's a direct link between freezing system performance and the safety, quality, and profitability of [...]

Clean-fill, ultra-clean-fill, aseptic -- What's the difference? And which mode most efficiently satisfies your product and shelf-life needs? Enhanced hygienics in product filling can translate to extended shelf life (ESL) [...]

When product gets thrown away due to expiration of 'sell by' dates, the profit potential of that product gets discarded, too. Food processors hate when that happens. They know, however, [...]

Majority of industry executives agree that the ability to undertake quick and efficient product and package changeovers is critical in the food business. This trend has picked up in recent years as more processors began to embrace the just-in-time inventory philosophy. Quick changeovers present different challenges but problems can be minimized by good planning and flexibility., Today's just-in-time manufacturing and SKU proliferation demand versatile packaging lines that can change products and package sizes on-the-fly. In life, there are three absolutes - death, taxes, and change. And [...]

Combining form with function produces some eye-popping results. When it comes to tamper-evidencing, necessity is, indeed, the mother of invention. The need to protect consumers and product integrity has made [...]