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 interesting novelties. But I will talk about the new developments of Tetra Pak in my next article.
My first report of the exhibition is a collection of smaller but interesting developments and products. Read the rest of this entry »
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.
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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 food packaging much more fascinating and its solutions more complicated, than non-food packaging. Of course pharmaceutical, medical and cosmetic packaging are also very demanding, but their demands arise from rules and regulations, counterfeiting and the like and less from the product requirements.
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 quickly and as such a ready-to-drink vitamin beverage doesn’t give the consumer the kick he/she was expecting and paid for.
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.
