Cindy Dubin

Food Packaging

Brewing up beverage innovation

November 5, 2014

In 2015, the beverage packaging industry in North America is expected to reach $26.3 billion in sales, with plastic bottles leading the way in popularity, according to the study Beverage Packaging—An Industry Assessment by PMMI, The Association for Packaging and Processing Technologies.

Food Packaging

A thirst for package design

Competitive factors make the beverage category fascinating to watch, especially as iconic brands go head to head with smaller brands competing for a piece of the consumer’s dollar.

Cindy Dubin

October 7, 2014

Of all the aisles in the grocery store, the beverage aisle has probably seen the most changes in the past several years.

Food Packaging

There’s a cap for that

New cap reseals container for later use, preserves cool temperature and carbonation, and helps prevent spillage.

Cindy Dubin

August 7, 2014

Bridging the gap between conventional beverage cans and meeting the demands of a mobile generation, German-based ACTEGA DS and US company Dayton Systems Group (DSG) have developed the non-breakable, recyclable DSG Beverage Cap Can, with a reclosable feature that was previously available only on glass.

Food Packaging

Keep it fresh with hermetically sealed, airtight paperboard package

Cindy Dubin

May 6, 2014

Preserving freshness is the most important attribute for overall product satisfaction, followed by easy-to-carry and easy-to-reclose, according to MeadWestvaco (MWV) Corp.’s annual consumer satisfaction study.

Food Packaging

Cultured pearls

Cindy Dubin

May 6, 2014

Stonyfield, an organic yogurt maker, is launching an organic frozen yogurt dessert in collaboration with Cambridge, MA-based WikiFoods, Inc.

Food Packaging

Home plate: Packaging reinvents typical lid and tray for ready-to-eat

Package is a far cry from the typical lid and tray common in the ready-meal category.

Cindy Dubin

May 6, 2014

Consumers have little time to prepare home-cooked meals anymore. And retailers have seized on this as an opportunity to do the cooking for them.

Consumers say a curved package enables them to get every last bit of product out of their dairy container.

Food Packaging

Curve appeal

Cindy Dubin

April 8, 2014

Last year, some members of the dairy industry thought it hip to be in square packaging. But Dean Foods, Inc. is taking a more circuitous route. Its Land O’Lakes brand sour cream and cottage cheese products are appearing on retailer shelves throughout the upper Midwest in curved packaging.

Food Packaging

Coffee stick makes a stir

Cindy Dubin

April 8, 2014

Make a perfect cup of coffee—or tea—in about 30 seconds. Might sound too good to be true, but Australian inventor Dave Hopper may have enabled you to do just that with the development of Quikstix.

Just add hot water to this rigid polypropylene cup to create a hot meal for your pup.

Food Packaging

‘Bone’ appétit!: New advances for pet food industry

Cindy Dubin

April 8, 2014

A pet peeve for some dog owners is not being able to feed their pets a warm meal. But that problem is being addressed with a heated, moist supplement for dry food in a package familiar to the world of single-serve soups, pastas and snacks.