- PE food packaging films due for steady growth.
Mastiogale's 2005 polyethylene film market study forecasts North American consumption of PE food-packaging films this year at 2.93 billion lb, representing 17% of total PE film resin usage. PE food packaging films include wrappings for baked goods, candy, cheese, meat, seafood, and poultry; fresh produce bags; self-serve and wet-pack bags; ......
- That's a wrap! Corn yields a natural solution for
sustainable food packaging.
By combining the best of large-scale industrial biotechnology with chemical processing, Cargill Dow LLC is providing food companies the opportunity to offer the complete package with its 100 percent corn-based food packaging material. This new material is known as NatureWorks[TM] PLA. The technology used to create it allows abundant, annually ......
- Food packaging industry booming. (News
Briefs).
More than 65% of U.S. and European foodservice packaging manufacturers, raw material and machinery suppliers, expect 2002 volumes to exceed last year's, according to a recent survey conducted by the Foodservice & Packaging Institute (FPI). Furthermore, 63% of the 38 surveyed said they expected increased profits this year versus last....
- When it comes to food packaging King Yuan Fu sits on
Taiwan throne.
With the great boom in frozen food consumption during the past decade in Taiwan, the market for packaging materials has expanded by leaps and bounds. And emerging as king of the hill on the domestic supply side is King Yuan Fu Packing Co., Ltd. of Shu Lin Chen. Boasting sales ......
- Wrappings
Packaging Dynamics will close its Farmers Branch, Texas, flexible packaging plant during the first quarter of 2006 to cut costs. The company's food packaging production will be transferred to other facilities. Hilex Poly has purchased Vanguard Plastics , creating the largest retail carryout packaging manufacturer in the world. The combined ......
- Packaging breathes new shelf life into fresh produce:
packaging is in development to ensure that fresh fruits and vegetables
reach consumers with their taste and nutrition intact. (Innovations
Fresh-Cut...
Before the flexible packaging revolution, the phrase "produce packaging" meant a brown kraft bag into which the grocer tossed vegetables or fruit. "Modified atmosphere" meant he folded down the top of the bag to keep the flies out. The produce came to the store in wooden and corrugated crates transported ......
- FDA excludes food packaging materials from
Bioterrorism regs.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has issued interim final rules implementing The Public Health Security and Bioterrorism Preparedness and Response Act of 2002 (known as the Bioterrorism Act) that require food company facility registration and prior notification for food product imports. The food packaging industry got some good ......