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Food Packaging

Food packaging: Peel and reseal

August 15, 2015

Packaging designed to keep products fresh plays a crucial role in reducing some of the 1.3 million tons of food that is wasted around the world each year.

Food Packaging

Food packaging: Wasting away

Food wasted at the consumer level is gaining attention, and some see packaging as the key to reducing the amount of waste.

Debra Schug

August 10, 2015

According to the Environmental Protection Agency, almost half the food wasted in the US, approximately 44 percent, occurs in consumers’ homes.

ConAgra removes BPA from cans

Jeremy Gerrard

July 31, 2015

ConAgra Foods, Inc. announced this week the company will no longer use cans with Bisphenol (BPA) liners. The transition affects all of the company’s facilities in the US and Canada.

3D printed cap detects spoiled food

Jeremy Gerrard

July 23, 2015

Engineers at the University of California, Berkeley--in collaboration with colleagues at Taiwan’s National Chiao Tung University—have developed 3D printing technology that includes electrical components and sensors.

Food Packaging

Packaging Technology: Peel out

June 26, 2015

Creating an easy-to-open, but structurally sound, peel can be a tightrope walk.

Food Packaging

Packaging Technology: Breaking the mold

June 19, 2015

Food manufacturers looking to create proprietary shapes for cups and bottles at nearly the same cost as standard molds can now do so with IMA Dairy & Food USA’s open mold technology.

Food Packaging

Packaging Technology: The smart bottle

Mobile technology on packaging becomes a tool for manufacturers to protect their products and communicate personalized messages directly to consumers.

June 12, 2015

A few years ago, quick response codes became a huge advertising tool and were placed on many products to promote brands for smartphone-carrying consumers.

RPA holds reusable packaging forum

June 3, 2015

This past April packaging professionals from across the country converged in Chicago for a two-day forum on focusing on industry collaboration and solving the challenges related to reusable packaging.

TECH FLASH

Packaging technology: Sensor communicates food spoilage wirelessly

Finnish research and technology company VTT created a sensor that can detect spoiled food in the package.

Debra Schug

May 26, 2015

The sensor detects ethanol emitted by food that has spoiled in the packaged environment.

Plant of the Year

Food Plant of the Year 2015: Mars Chocolate is lean, green and poised for growth

Wayne Labs

April 6, 2015

As a kid growing up on a poultry farm, I couldn’t wait to help my dad truck cases of eggs to the local co-op, but I confess to an ulterior motive—hitting the candy machine just inside the door for a SNICKERS bar.