Packaging Competence Center debuts
The Packaging Competence Center brings together experts in regulation, packaging design, materials and automation technology, to provide advice on the development of sustainable packaging.
The Packaging Competence Center brings together experts in regulation, packaging design, materials and automation technology, to provide advice on the development of sustainable packaging.
The MULTIVAC Cooling@Packing System is the winning Sustainable Packaging Machinery, a category of the Sustainable Packaging News Award. It is a vacuum application that integrates the cooling process for bakery products into the thermoforming packaging machine.
Automating packaging and coding not only streamlines the process but also checks all of the boxes – efficiency and transparency, material traceability and sustainability.
Sustainable packaging in the bakery sector lies at the intersection between EU regulations and industry commitments.
As flatbreads grew to become a valued staple worldwide, technology has provided answers to all its production challenges, to match traditional handcrafting techniques.
Verhoeven Family of Companies launched its latest technology, its vacuum cooling and baking technology, remotely. However, equipment testing and adjusting the process to the specifics of the destination environment is key.
Designing the turnkey line that fits best with a given environment throughout each process step also starts with people: the design team tasked with bringing together only the perfect pieces of the puzzle that will become a new line.
Inviting with their diverse iterations, biscuits are, nevertheless, a delicate business to master. Following careful preparation, the fragile products are thoroughly inspected so that they may begin their journey to the consumer in great condition, and remain that way until snack time. The competition for attention matches their diversity, which is, at the same time, their unique selling point.
For industrial production, pizza lines are made to welcome any variations required. Accurate processes are a must for these flexible lines.
Widely different concepts, approaches and methods lead to advancing sustainability throughout a company’s operations. For Kwik Lok, sustainable materials used in packaging closures are the immediately visible result of this mindset. And, this priority also influences the process.
UPM Specialty Papers, Lantmännen Unibake and Adara teamed up to create a new fiber-based packaging that replaces plastic bags as primary packaging for frozen baked goods. To minimize the use of fossil-based materials, plastic bags were eliminated by using UPM Asendo barrier paper as an inner liner in the corrugated cardboard box.
At home or at the restaurant, for lunch, office parties, or even for breakfast, ordered in person or online, the