packaging
April 2014
Product Focus: Frozen Foods Ingredients: Gelatin and gums Packaging: Conveying and Handling, Interpack Processing: Water and Waste Management Show Coverage: Vitafoods, Interpack
Conveyor for sticky sweets
Packaging solutions specialist, tna, is launching its new tna roflo VM 3 high throw vibratory conveyor. The high throw design achieves the gentle transfer of sticky confectionery and difficult products through increased vertical motion to improve product throughput and line efficiency. The latest incarnation of the tna roflo VM 3 overcomes the specific challenges of […]
Flexicon offers FLEXI-DISC line of Tubular Cable Conveyors for fragile materials
Flexicon is now offering its FLEXI-DISC line of Tubular Cable Conveyors for fragile materials, integrated with upstream and/or downstream equipment that sources material from single or multiple locations and delivers it selectively to storage vessels, filling machines or other processing equipment. Upstream equipment ranges from Inlet Hoppers and Metering Devices to Bulk Bag Dischargers, Drum/Box/Container […]
The ‘Pack’ is back
I hope you have packed the comfortable shoes. If you have entered the industry within the last three years and have yet to experience an Interpack tradeshow, you will not quite be prepared for the vastness of it compared to other trade shows. The 2011 event had 2,700 exhibitors from 59 countries and 165,000 visitors […]
Metsä Board launches two double-coated fully bleached liners
Metsä Board has launched two new double-coated fully bleached liners in its lightweight range. Modo Northern Light Litho is specially developed for litholamination and also suitable for other offset applications; Modo Northern Light Flexo is recommended for flexo preprint. Both grades offer high whiteness, gloss and premium printing properties in lower substances. They are ideal […]
Petainer launches light weight jar
Petainer, a plastic packaging supplier, is launching the petainerJarT. The new PET jar can be supplied as a fully blown jar or as a PET wide mouth preform to be blown by food manufacturers on their premises. The petainerJarT weighs less than traditional jars, so more can be transported in one truck. The preform offers […]
Packaging equipment investment
The GEA Group has made a multi-million euro investment in production capacity for vertical bagging and confectionery equipment as part of its growth plans. “We have experienced strong growth over the last few years,” explains Harrie Neijnens, vice president of technology and site manager. “We’d reached the limits of our capacity. At the same time, […]
New modular hotfill machine
Sidel, the international supplier of liquid packaging solutions to the drinks industry, has produced a new modular hotfill machine that offers customers an extensive range of possible configurations. Part of the Sidel Matrix range, it provides high standards of hygiene to meet the production demands of more natural and fresher beverages, even those including pulps […]
High temperature certification of ovenable films
New printed ovenable films from TCL Packaging are the first in the UK to have been successfully tested to 220°C, 450°F Gas 7 with Smithers Pira. Managing director Mike Golding explains, “We decided to extend the test boundaries after we became concerned that not all printed ovenable films on the market are verified. It’s vital […]
Pork Farms re-launches brand
Pork Farms is to re-launch its range of branded chilled savoury foods, which includes cold pies, slices, sausage rolls and Scotch eggs. The packaging will, for the first time, highlight that Pork Farms products contain 100% British meat and are colour coordinated by variant and flavour. Each SKU in the range carries its own Union […]
Alternative to sleeves for cup packaging
Greiner Packaging International has developed an alternative to sleeves for special shaped cup packaging in the form of K3 D. K3 stands for Karton-Kunstoff-Kombinationen (cardboard-plastic combinations) and the D stands for the deformability of the cardboard wrap. The new technology makes it possible to deform a cardboard wrap in the third dimension to decorate a […]
Ilapack launches electronic flowrapper for the poultry industry
Ilapak has launched an electronic flowrapper for the poultry industry. The new Delta 3000 4S can pack poultry in a full range of pack formats, in either trayed or trayless pack styles. The flowrapper can pack whole birds and single portions. It can run laminates, paper laminates and ovenable films producing pillow pack and quad […]
Tetra Pak launches first bio-based cap for gable top
Tetra Pak has launched the first bio-based opening for gable top packages. Manufactured using high density polyethylene (HDPE) derived from sugar cane, the bio-based version of TwistCap OSO 34 marks another step forward in Tetra Pak’s ambition to make fully renewable packages. In 2013, the company delivered 1.1 billion bio-caps globally, an increase of more […]
New microbiological process hall at Campden BRI
A newly commissioned microbiology process hall at Campden BRI will help in the development of its well established microbiology evaluation and process validation services. Joy Gaze, Deputy Head of Campden BRI’s large microbiology department comments, “This is a major development for us. In particular, it provides us with a larger area dedicated to the microbiological […]