Packaging & Packing Materials, Containers

Making baby formula transparent with Danone’s Track & Connect

21-Feb-2020 By Beth Newhart

Packaging with QR codes and a new digital platform make up Danone’s Track & Connect service for baby formula products. It is available in China, with launches in France, Germany, Australia and New Zealand soon.

NMPF calls for end to ‘red herring’ arguments in dairy alternatives debate

17-Feb-2020 By Beth Newhart

The National Milk Producers Federation (NMPF) wants plant-based dairy alternatives in the US to be barred from using dairy terms in product labeling. But right now it’s not a fair fight, they say, because the focus is not on public health.

North Carolina digitizes environmental monitoring for dairy processors

10-Feb-2020 By Beth Newhart

A new online training course from North Carolina State University is designed for dairy processors. It helps improve their environmental monitoring programs (EMP) for better food safety and pathogen control.

AIPIA cancels China Summit amid concerns over Coronavirus

06-Feb-2020 By Jenny Eagle

AIPIA, the Active & Intelligent Packaging Industry Association has announced it is postponing its China Summit, due to be held in Shanghai in April, due to concerns about Novel Coronavirus (2019-nCoV) in China and many other regions.

US dairy groups press Congress on Dairy Pride Act

06-Feb-2020 By Beth Newhart

Three years after its first introduction to the Senate, the divisive Dairy Pride Act is still on the minds of US dairy. The National Milk Producers Federation (NMPF) made a case for stricter labeling guidelines while the FDA is stalled.

DS Smith opens Box Manufacturing Plant to produce more sustainable boxes

27-Jan-2020 By Jenny Eagle

DS Smith has opened a Box Manufacturing Plant in Lebanon, Indiana, creating 170 jobs, to meet a growing demand for more sustainable packaging and a reduction of shipping costs across the US.

What’s new from the Winter Fancy Food Show?

27-Jan-2020 By Beth Newhart

The Specialty Food Association’s (SFA) Winter Fancy Food Show (WFFS) commenced in San Francisco last week. Dairy and non-dairy alternative products from the specialty sector exhibited for the first time in 2020.

Sustainability

Nestlé to take ‘bold steps to create a wider market for food-grade recycled plastics’

20-Jan-2020 By Jenny Eagle

Nestlé will invest up to CHF 2bn to create a wider market for food-grade recycled plastics and will reduce its use of virgin plastics by one third as part of efforts to make 100% of its packaging recyclable or reusable by 2025.

Coveris to launch sustainable version of its CPP film to support Circular Economy

10-Jan-2020 By Jenny Eagle

Coveris is launching a sustainable and high-performance version of its CPP (Cast Polypropylene) film to support the Circular Economy.

DFA forms new Ingredient Solutions division

23-Dec-2019 By Beth Newhart

The Dairy Farmers of America is realigning its portfolio of dairy-based ingredients into a new group, DFA Ingredient Solutions. It says this will provide better support for food manufacturers and operators.

Hygiene zoning is key for pathogen control in dairy processing

12-Dec-2019 By Beth Newhart

The Innovation Center for US Dairy has released expanded guidance recommendations on controlling pathogens in dairy processing, including Salmonella and Cronobacter Sakazakii.

Stora Enso to build €9m pilot plant for bio-based plastic packaging

10-Dec-2019 By Jenny Eagle

Stora Enso will build a €9m pilot facility to produce bio-based plastics as a barrier in transparent packaging, with construction starting in the second half of 2020, with operations beginning in Q1 2021.

Avery Dennison: ‘We believe in a future where every physical item will have a unique digital identity’

05-Dec-2019 By Jenny Eagle

Avery Dennison Corporation is to acquire Smartrac’s Transponder (RFID Inlay) Division, for €225m, closing in the next few months.

Stora Enso to create Packaging Materials division to develop renewable packaging

05-Dec-2019 By Jenny Eagle

Stora Enso is merging its container board business in the Packaging Solutions division with the Consumer Board division to create a Packaging Materials division, effective January 2020.

AIPIA World Congress

FrieslandCampina to expand Kezzler’s TrackEasy across a further 25 countries

29-Nov-2019 By Jenny Eagle