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Food & Beverage Packaging Insights is an electronic newsletter created by the editors of Food & Beverage Packaging. Food & Beverage Packaging Insights appears in your inbox 2x a month with a recap of top news, new products and trends. It also offers you exclusive access to industry analysis, events, webinars, digital issues and exclusive feature articles.
Totani America debuted at Pack Expo 2009 a new feature on the CT60D Stand-Up Pouch machine. Existing and entry-level convertors can have additional capability of Quad Seal with this new unwind and forming section. The "CT60D+Q" is similar to its predecessor
with three-side seal and stand-up pouch capabilities. The new, powered unwind unit has more film width capacity of 1600mm, and gusset web hole punching is done in continuous motion, allowing for greater accuracy at high speed.
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Product weight vs. calories presents packaging dilemma
By Rick Lingle
Executive Editor
We recently posted a news item in our Breaking News section, "Food packages: Actual calories exceed labeled values," that I felt-like a controversial football call-was worthy of further review. The study, reported in the January 2010 issue of the Journal of the American Dietetic Association , found that the measured calorie values of 10 frozen meals purchased from supermarkets averaged 8% more calories than stated on the label. more
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TOP DEVELOPMENT
Package codes direct microwave popcorn heating
Diamond Foods Inc., San Francisco, Calif., has partnered with Microwave Science JV LLC to use its TrueCookPlus microwave oven codes on 13 different Pop Secret products. Consumers input a short numeric code found on each package.
The microwave oven adjusts automatically... more
Kraft sheds 150 million pounds of packaging
Kraft Foods reports that it has eliminated 150 million pounds of packaging from its supply chain since 2005. more
Pampered pets get personalized packs
One of the key 2010 trends that we recently relayed as noted by the Food Channel was for personalization of products. That trend is playing out in a unique new venture that uses personalized, custom-packaged foods for pooches and felines. more
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NEW PACKAGES
 Oreo
package is one huge cookie
Oreo cookies sold in Mexico are available in a round plastic tub molded to resemble a single, giant cookie. The single-serve packs are in a 11.2-inch-diameter plastic tub with an lid that looks like a single
Oreo. more
 Low-calorie
rolls nestle in tray
The Pepperidge Farm unit of Campbell Soup Co. has rolled out a bread product whose round, thin shape lends itself to tray-style packaging. Pepperidge Farm Deli Flats are 100-calorie rolls stacked in a four-by-two
configuration in a thermoformed tray. more
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 Eager
to see the most innovative packages of 2009? Well, look no further. BRANDPACKAGING's Design Gallery Vol. 7 book has just been published, featuring paperboard, rigid plastic, flexible, metal and glass packaging materials in multiple product categories. To preview the book, click here. To purchase the full volume, click here.
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Are you ready to face the Fresh Connection Competition?
The Fresh Connection is a Web-based role playing simulation game in which teams of four operations management professionals will be challenged to collaborate and employ supply chain management expertise to help save a virtual
fruit juice manufacturer.
Join the competition and become a part of an engaging and interactive platform that will enhance your team-building and e-collaboration skills. Compete online weekly from April 5-May
17, 2010.
Register
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