Delighted to have been able to go along to the UK Packaging Awards last night, presented by Packaging News. They are always good nights, and I quite like getting dressed up in my monkey suit and schmoozing the great and the good of the industry. I can also tie my own bow tie, which means [...]
New food packaging can double or, in some cases, even triple the shelf life of certain foods for up to 24 months compared with conventional packaging, claims its manufacturer Superfos.
SuperLock packaging is said to achieve the longer shelf-life thanks to very low oxygen transmission rates obtained through a new oxygen barrier. And barrier protection is [...]
Don’t understand this story from America at all – 100% polyester lidding films have been available in the UK for 20 years from companies like FFP Packaging Solutions. And I’m not sure 2.5mm works as a film thickness either! There has been a lot of work by FFP and maybe some others in reducing film [...]
FFP Packaging Solutions of Northampton have produced new printed laminate flexible packaging for Marks and Spencer’s fishcakes and crispbakes ranges, consisting of twelve product lines across the two complementary product groups. Marks and Spencer went for a consistent look and feel, with a deep black offset by a different colour cue in the body of [...]
Many food products – including some meat products – are packaged with a small amount of gas to maintain their fresh color and enhance shelf life. From salad mixes to bottled water, modified atmosphere packaging (MAP) technology has been used safely for years.
Red meat tends to change from a bright red color to brown or [...]
You have to take your hat off to Khalid, he has really made a stir here. I’m delighted that one of our East Midlands companies is doing so well. Quite recently there wsas a report that suggested that good packaging was an important part of alleviating world hunger. I hope that other packaging companies can [...]
Isn’t it great that the organisation that looks after cheese is called ‘The Cheese Board’? Also, while I was avoiding the Champions League final last night, I watched a programme on weight loss that told me that the Calcium in dairy products makes the fat in the rest of my food indigestible, so I can [...]
The white paper details the high level of protection afforded by the aseptic process and describes the contribution aseptic packaging makes to improved sustainability through an overall smaller carbon footprint. Oystar concludes this white paper with details of high cycle rate thermoforming, filling, and sealing.
via Aseptic packaging is the best possible solution for long shelf [...]
New analysis from Frost & Sullivan, Southeast Asia Plastic Flexible Packaging Market for Food, finds that the market earned revenues of over $1.41 billion in 2008 and estimates it to reach $2.22 billion in 2015. This is due to robust growth in the food processing sector and the rise in demand for food exports as [...]
Here’s an opportunity! (Martin)
KINGSTON, Jamaica, May 21, 2009 – Jamaica’s Minister of Finance and the Public Sector, Audley Shaw, has proposed food processing as an alternative to the ailing bauxite/alumina industry as a major foreign exchange earner.
The sector has been hit recently by companies scaling down operations, the most recent being the country’s largest bauxite [...]
