News on Packaging Equipment

It happens all the time: You open a snack bag, cereal box, or pill bottle and find a little bit of product and … lots of air. Consumer Reports dings such products with a Black Hole Award, and loyal readers are quick to send us nominees.

At next October’s PACK EXPO International 2010 (October 31-November 3;McCormick Place, Chicago, IL) several new features will make it easy for packagers and processors from around the globe to enhance operational excellence across the production line, ...

U.S. shipments of packaging machinery decreased by 0.4 percent to $5.885 billion in 2008, the first decrease in seven years, according to the Packaging Machinery Manufacturers Institute, Arlington, Va. Export growth of 8.6 percent was tempered by a 2...

Breaking the stranglehold of DS Smith and Smurfit Kappa, who accounted for all of the finalists last year in this hotly contested category, Inspirepac just pipped DS Smith's Louth site to this year's top prize, thanks to an entry hailed by judges for i...

Unilever has long been committed to clear, transparent nutritional information for consumers, and therefore welcomes the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) announced plans to develop standardized criteria on which future front-of-package nutriti...

The Queensland [Australia] Japan Chamber of Commerce & Industry Inc (QJCCI) announced Heat and Control as winner of the Large Manufacturer category of the 2009 QJCCI Export Excellence Awards.

Organisers of last month's annual PPMA Show said that the "green shoots of economic recovery were in evidence"at the event, with many exhibitors reporting sales and high levels of enquiries. Ishida Europe said it achieved its leads target w...

United Biscuits (UBUK), a leading manufacturer of snacks, biscuits and cakes, has launched a range of savoury snacks 35p Price Marked Packs, available now, to help retailers and their customers beat the economic downturn. The new selection of Price Mar...

Consumer goods companies expressed confidence in the future of the economy last week by turning out for PACK EXPO Las Vegas in near-record levels, reports leading packaging and processing trade association PMMI, which produces and sponsors the PACK EXP...

Greenvale's new packaging for its Lady Balfour organic potatoes has increased shelf life, decreased wastage and reduced complaints about greening by over 50%.Greenvale AP is the UK's largest supplier of fresh potatoes and Lady Balfour is one of the UK'...

Starting next year, the Food Processing Suppliers Assn. (FPSA) will co-locate its Process Expo with the Institute of Food Technologists’ IFT Food Expo. That’s not the most natural of pairings, and the arrangement was born a little out of desperation fr...

TNA will debut intelli-scan®, designed to inspect and confirm date coding on high speed VFFS packs, at Pack Expo, Las Vegas, October 5-7, booth # S 5249.  The tna intelli-scan®, is featured ontna’s robag® 3 fx 180 rotary triple jaw vertical form/fill...

It will be the end of a brief era when Pack Expo Las Vegas and Process Expo stage their last trade show together in Las Vegas Oct. 5-7.Some 21,000 packaging and food processing professionals are expected in the Las Vegas Convention Center for the show,...

DS Smith has created retail-ready packaging (RRP) for Seabrook Crisps that can be turned into a standalone display.The pack can be transformed from RRP to a display unit by opening the perforations on the side of the tray to create special locking tabs...

ROVEMA Global Packaging Group, LLC, a global leader in supplying state-of-the-art packaging machines and lines announces today the completion of the acquisition of BOSSAR S.L., a world leader in the design, development and manufacturing of horizontal f...

A new option for automation of the weighing and bagging of potatoes is being provided through a joint initiative by Tong Peal and Pacepacker Services.  The two companies are working together to offer machinery that combines the Tong Peal electronic w...

PMMI announces the Reusable Packaging Association (RPA) will co-locate its 2009 annual meeting with PACK EXPO 2009 (October 5-7;Las Vegas Convention Center) and sponsor a reusable packaging track for the Conference at PACK EXPO. The collaboration is t...

Ishida Europe has launched a new Flexible Strip Pack Applicator (F-SPA) which produces ready-to display strips of bagged products, providing an attractive hanging display for retailers.Ideal for snacks and confectionery but also perfectly applicable ...