To give you an idea of how important the Anuga FoodTec is seen in the world of the food and drink industry, let me tell you that this year Tetra Pak had a stand covering 4,800 m2 (that for my American friends is more than 50,000 sq.ft), showing its whole range of products with several [...]
Today the 27th of March the Anuga FoodTec in Cologne, Germany, opened its doors. Scheduled from March 27 to March 30, the Anuga FoodTec offers international food manufacturing companies an opportunity to view the latest technologies dedicated to food and beverage processing, packaging and food safety. The event also includes specialist forums and conference sessions. [...]
As said in my previous article we continue our overview of dispensing caps today with the ViCap of Vicap Systems, the BioGaia or Lifetop Cap of Bericap, the Cedevita cap made by Teamplast, and the PowerCap of Liquid Health Labs. The VICAP To drink from the bottle, after the consumer has activated the cap to [...]
I seldom write about medical and pharmaceutical packaging. The reason is simple. In my some 45 years of experience in the packaging field, I have been mainly engaged in packaging technology for food packaging and only sporadically and intermediately in non-food applications. Furthermore, and I know a lot of my readers will disagree, I find [...]
Since the days of the fish-and-chips wrapped in old newspapers and the Chinese food scooped into unappealing plastic trays, quite some has change. And the developments are continuing, as take-away or take-out meals are the big trend in these years of disciplining our personal financial resources. Note: For the sake of diversity on my blog [...]
In my previous article we discussed why it is desirable to dispense a predetermined amount of ingredients/additive/supplement into a liquid, mostly water, in a container. In short to dispense an additive in powder or in a tablet form into water it can add flavouring, colouring, vitamins, minerals and the like into the water to create [...]
In general it can be said that dispensing caps or functional caps are used to store dry or liquid supplements separately from the water in which when released by the consumer they form an energy or vitamin drink or sometimes a medicinal drink, under the assumption or claim that supplements, particularly vitamins deteriorate in water [...]
In the recent weeks we have seen some very interesting developments in packaging material based on wood fibres. Packaging material made from wood fibres belongs to the oldest packaging materials known to mankind. From the whole range of wood-fibre based packaging material, cellulose film is the oldest transparent packaging product. It was first marketed in [...]
This month we start again our series of new packaging developments. An ingenious packaging format for artisan square sandwiches, Salanova lettuce to grow in your own kitchen, a paperboard handgrenade holding a boxer short, nostalgic paperboard baskets for fruit and vegetables and from Singapore a Rice Dumpling Box made from nostalgic unbleached kraft. Tri-Star’s Artisan [...]
