Low-cost filler for ready meals and prepared salads
10 August, 2007 | Supplied by: http://www.hbm.com.au
Multi-Fill of Utah USA specialise in the manufacture of semi-automatic and automatic volumetric fillers for the home meal replacement and convenience foods industries and are represented in Oceania by HBM Packaging Technologies.
Trays for dogs
09 August, 2007 | Supplied by: Techni-Chem Australia Pty Ltd
Forthglade has selected multilayer trays from RPC Bebo UK Corby for its revamped dog food range
Spherical gum pack and sleeve
06 August, 2007
Sleever International has provided a labelling answer for a new Cadbury chewing gum
Traceability and shipment verification for bakery
30 July, 2007
Groupe Jacquet, of the Limagrain group, is a major bakery with facilities throughout France and Belgium, shipping over 70,000 boxes of bread a day to hundreds of customers
Success for Australian EPC/RFID pilot
12 July, 2007
Radio frequency identification (RFID) using GS1 global standards can improve productivity, reduce delivery processing times and open up visibility throughout the supply chain for the benefit of all trading partners, according to a multi-industry Australian consortium.
Collaboration to apply RFID technologies in New Zealand
09 July, 2007
Radio frequency identification (RFID) technologies can make a major contribution to New Zealand’s economic development, according to Auckland University of Technology (AUT) and the New Zealand RFID Pathfinder Group.
Benefits of bulk aseptic packaging recognised
20 June, 2007
Philip E Nelson, president of the Institute of Food Technologists in 2002 and food science professor at Purdue University, has been recognised as the 2007 recipient of the World Food Prize.
Blow-moulded retort containers
13 June, 2007 | Supplied by: Gilpin and Co
Gilpin and Company has been awarded exclusive distribution rights in Asia-Pacific for Silgan Plastics Corporation's OMNI injection blow-moulded retort containers. The multilayer, high-barrier plastic bowls and cylinders (cups) are designed for shelf stable processed foods that can be heated in a microwave oven and served. Silgan's OMNI retort containers are suitable for categories like soup and prepared entrees because they are lightweight, portable and, above all, microwaveable. Consumers have embraced the convenience this packaging format offers.
UNIVERSAL top load case packer for difficult-to-handle products
13 June, 2007 | Supplied by: http://www.hbm.com.au
Goodman Packaging Equipment from Chicago, USA is one the global leaders for top load case packing machinery.
A label for 'Australian Grown'
05 June, 2007
The ‘Australian Grown’ logo has now been launched, allowing consumers to identify packaged food that has been grown on Australian farms.
Paper innovation holds promise for improved global health
27 May, 2007
A Canadian-invented bioactive paper has been developed that contains the ingredients to detect and ward off life-threatening bacteria and viruses like E.coli, salmonella and SARS.
No more warm beer
23 May, 2007
An American brewing company, Coors, has released a beer bottle that changes colour when the beer is at the optimal drinking temperature.
Wet and steamy coding
21 May, 2007 | Supplied by: Tronics NZ Ltd
Coding plastic pouches in a wet steamy environment has proved no problem for the latest small character ink jet printer from Videojet
Empty-bottle inspection for the low output segment
18 May, 2007 | Supplied by: JL Lennard Pty Ltd
Since the smaller breweries and beverage producers also need a high degree of dependability in their bottling operations, Krones has come up with an empty-bottle inspector designed specifically for mid-tier applications. The Smartronic K 714 has a machine rating of maximum 18,000 containers an hour. It features high-resolution DART (distributed architecture for real time) camera technology and is operated from a 12.5 cm touch screen. Its space-saving dimensions, moreover, enable it to be easily integrated into existing lines.
Bag-in-box beer
18 May, 2007
In a partnership with Bavarian brewer Ankerbrau, Rapak has launched a bag-in-box system for the keg beer market
