Eagle Packaging is teaming up with its sister company, WeighPack Systems to bring to market automatically loading stand-up pouches into trays and cases.
A group of delegates from New Zealand will visit Europe next month to look for partnerships on food processing technologies for products, preservation and food safety.
BASF has signed a contract to divest its liquid masterbatch business in Clermont de l’Oise, France, to Audia International, a global supplier of polyolefins and color masterbatches.
Water is crucial in any food-related operation, but water systems don’t usually come to mind when plant managers look at improving operational efficiency.
MeadWestvaco is offering an indepth look at how consumers really feel about food and beverage packaging; many report they are not perfectly happy with their containers.
Systems Integration (SI) will roll out its redeveloped production planning software across five Vantage Foods sites in the US and Canada this year, giving the meat processor live pictures of its orders.
Universal Pasteurization Company, which delivers outsourced High Pressure Processing (HPP) services has announced its wholly owned subsidiary, UPC Texas has acquired Global Leading Foods (GL Foods).
How2Recycle, a program that wants standardized recycling labels on most US consumer goods by 2016, has welcomed supermarket chain Wegmans Food Markets to its scheme.
A Mullinix Packages executive advises the lifestyles of today’s time-crunched, demanding consumers calls for food packaging with longer shelf life and quality-guarding properties.
As part of our series on Operational Efficiency Month, FoodProductionDaily.com speaks to Charles Randon, senior product manager, Linx Printing Technologies about its work around operational efficiency, focusing on reduced downtime and hygienic design...
A Frito-Lay leader says that for creative packaging ideas to work, developers must put the consumer first and create packs that “delight” the shoppers they’re targeted at.
‘Although many people are starting to speak about a global financial recovery, we’re still in the midst of a unique period for the world economy. High volume food producers are continually under pressure – costs are still rising while selling prices are...
Vorne Industries has created a series of Improvement Topics on operational efficiency, which are free to download in pdf format on the internet and has already attracted 24,000 views.
The Praxair ColdFront Cryo-Saver tunnel freezer is designed to offer a higher degree of freezing efficiency in the same footprint of a traditional cryogenic tunnel.
Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology (JKUAT), in Kenya, has partnered with Nissin Food Holdings in Japan to open a food processing factory.
Potato chip waste converted into biogas to fuel production is a viable, eco-friendly waste reduction plan that other snack makers should consider, says the president of Naturally Homegrown Foods.
