October 2009

The cryovac® saddle pack poultry package for fresh chicken parts utilizes a unique nonbarrier rollstock thermoform material to create multiple portions in a saddlebag configuration.

It is a telescopetype box design, which provides tremendous innovation for water marketing in related country. It is particularly designed for use in restaurants, school cafeterias and catering for special meetings. The box has a special design for the storage of the used disposable glasses. There is a space in the middle of the box which is connected to the lid through a hole. Dentas packaging and paper industry s.a.

Biodegradable pla polylactic acid films offer good performance in convertability and are becoming more attractive to the market. With alcans silicon oxide coating technology pla films are now available with a high barrier against oxygen and water vapour.

  Klockner pentaplast continues to broaden its smartcycle brand of films containing recycled content with a new pet film partly made from discarded plastic bottles. The company, based in germany but with u.s. Operations in gordonsville, va, has steadily built its niche in sustainability for the past two years with a host of monolayer films using recycling content. But its new film, released in august, expands its line to food thermoforming applications with a multilayer film that provides both a barrier for longer shelf life and postconsumer recycled content.

 mwv&rsquos Work in foodservice includes recycled content in its paperboardbased hot beverage cups. Mwv is mixing innovation with new marketing initiatives for its line of foodservice packaging materials, branding those products mware. The company is using the branding effort to further collaboration with converters and operators in the use of foodservice packaging that eliminates fossilfuel materials and builds recognition for its innovation efforts, said dobbie newman, mwv director of food service marketing.