02-Feb-2012 - Supermarket chain Morrisons is set to create 400 jobs at its Bridgwater manufacturing site as the firm seeks to combine its packaging and distribution operations.
31-Jan-2012 - Two Norfolk firms have been fined a total of £8,000 after a worker’s hand was crushed in a vegetable packing plant.
30-Jan-2012 - As supermarkets encourage consumers to buy more milk in bags, there are growing opportunities for dairies to compete for this work. And a bagging machine developed for this purpose, now available in the UK, should help dairies to meet supermarket demands.
30-Jan-2012 - Premier Foods is introducing a new headstand valve dispensing closure designed for the jams and condiments sector on Hartley's Squeezy Jam.
30-Jan-2012 - Tear tape has enabled a New York-based packaging firm to create a tamper-evident yet easy-to-open clamshell food pack for lettuce and bakery products.
30-Jan-2012 - To ensure that investment can continue despite budgetary restrictions, Quorn Foods has purchased a reconditioned T400 traysealer from Multivac for its plant at Methwold in Norfolk.
30-Jan-2012 - Will you still need me? Will you still feed me? When I'm 64." So sang The Beatles back in 1967. If you're not concerned about how you're going to be fed when you're 64, then good luck to you. But food manufacturers should certainly be thinking about how best to feed the 64-year-old consumer if demographic predictions are anything to go by. Mintel data indicates that the UK's 60 plus category will grow by 13% to reach 11.85M by 2016. That's 18.3% of the population. Age UK projects even further to the year 2083, by which time it says one in three people in the UK will be over 60, with reduced sight and dexterity.
30-Jan-2012 - By Paul GanderCoca-Cola is partnering Dutch- based technology firm Avantium in the production of bottles made from an, as yet, uncommercialised bio-based polyester.
30-Jan-2012 - Decoration and shaping technologies for board and paper are creating new opportunities particularly in confectionery, as witnessed by visitors to the recent ProSweets show in Germany.
01-Jan-2012 - The limited reduction in supply chain product and packaging waste in the latest phase of the Courtauld Commitment is due to its relative recent introduction as a target, said the Waste & Resources Action Programme (WRAP).
01-Jan-2012 - Food packaging will need to adapt to major changes in demographics, social trends and the supply chain in the future. Just what this could mean for the industry emerged in a recent series of seminars.
01-Jan-2012 - Top sealing technology specialist G Mondini-Ulma has introduced a tray skin system for use with its Evo and Trave range of machines with the aim of revolutionising the sealing of meat, poultry, fish and ready meals.
01-Jan-2012 - A time/temperature monitoring and management system for perishable foods launched originally in the US is now being made available in Europe.
01-Jan-2012 - Packaging Automation (PA) has revealed that the next evolution of its Eclipse range of high-speed tray heat sealing machines will be the first in the UK to operate entirely without any compressed air.
01-Jan-2012 - At the ProSweets exhibition in Cologne later this month, Gerhard Schubert will demonstrate a picker line for chocolate bears, cookies, candies and much more.
01-Jan-2012 - Foil tray manufacturer Nicholl Food Packaging is one of the firm's behind Alupro's (the Aluminium Packaging Recycling Organisation's) recycling and awareness-building programme. This has enabled foil to qualify for the Widely Recycled at Recycling Points (WRRP) labelling in the British Retail Consortium's On-Pack Recycling Label scheme.
01-Jan-2012 - BD Foods, in St Leonards-on-Sea in Sussex, purchased a Thermocode 107M thermal transfer printer from Open Date Equipment to print data onto pouches of chutneys, sauces, dressings and soups, which it supplies to foodservice.
01-Jan-2012 - Pioneering technology is claimed to lie behind a machine designed to remove labels from most sizes of jars, bottles or plastic bottles.
01-Jan-2012 - Veal processor Ekro, part of the VanDrie Group, has installed a faster and more flexible printing and identification labelling system to meet increasingly stringent industry regulations, expansion and increasing customer demand.
05-Dec-2011 - Austrian film producer Mondi Napiag has commissioned a blown film extruder that enables the production of films with up to 14 layers with ethylene vinyl alcohol and polyamide as barrier material. The films are for use in food packaging.
05-Dec-2011 - A briquetting press and shredder has helped Cheshire-based pasteurised egg producer D Wise turn a waste stream into a valuable biofuel.
05-Dec-2011 - "The packaging designer must move from a disposable to a constant reuse mindset, which forms part of a broader effort to reduce waste by planning for a product's potential recycling or reuse at the end of its life before it is even made."
05-Dec-2011 - Domino Printing Sciences has launched a black ethanol-based ink for use with its G-Series range of thermal ink jet printers.
05-Dec-2011 - Together with its client Carl Kühne, RPC Kutenholz has developed a two-litre container for foodservice. The shape and specification were designed for its client's production and filling needs.
05-Dec-2011 - Norwegian beverage company Mack has chosen Rexam Beverage Can Europe to create a novel polar bear cut-out tab for its newly designed Arctic Beer series.