FMCG Packaging

Research and development is very important at Sappi, the result of which is the development of an exceptional level of expertise. One key area is packaging paper with integrated functionality. “No other provider on the market anywhere in the world offers as many solutions and applications as we do. Customers from every part of the globe therefore, put their trust in us and use Sappi material to package their goods,” says Thomas Kratochwill, Vice President Sales & Marketing Packaging and Speciality Papers at Sappi Europe, highlighting the company’s position as an innovation leader.

Cold storage retrofit challenges Americold is a third-party logistics (3PL) company serving producers, retailers and food service providers with a network of 177 temperature-controlled warehouses. The Atlanta, GA-based firm works on a range of temperature-controlled supply chain activities, including public warehouses, facilities physically attached to customer production facilities, port facilities, regional consolidation centers, as well as dedicated customer-managed facilities.

The three-year-long project brings together a diverse network of organizations and stakeholders throughout the value chain — including brand owners, suppliers, packaging converters, and recyclers — to develop the best solutions for the future of fibre-based packaging. Explains Lisa DiGate, Vice President, Printing & Packaging of Michelman, “As a supplier to companies throughout the entire packaging value chain, we want to help transition the industry into more sustainable packaging.

The new Jowatherm® GROW product range of Jowat boasts hot melt adhesives with a very high content of renewable raw materials, which impress with high efficiency and cleanliness during processing and facilitate recyclable bonds according to the German packaging law. In their formulation, only resins made from crude liquid rosin are used. Crude liquid rosin is a by-product of the sustainable manufacture of paper and does not compete with food production. Jowat will be showcasing two new adhesives from the series at FachPack.

In this solution, we provided a blister machine for chocolate product, the blister feeder contains a hopper and Pneumatic plunger pump, the hopper adopts double jacketed heating function, it can preserve a certain temperature to ensure the liquidity of chocolate, the heating medium between the double jacket is water, the maximum temperature is 100 degrees Celsius, so the chocolate would nerve be overheated or burned; Inside the hopper equipped a agitator to stir the chocolate evenly, in this way, the chocolate is available to be fed at any time, such as after lunch break or any down time.

SafeTraces' saniDART™ is the first rapid solution for verifying sanitation effectiveness at a microbial level to receive AOAC certification. saniDART addresses major shortcomings of two commonly used methods for verifying sanitation effectiveness in food production, the Adenosine Triphosphate (ATP) test and the Aerobic Plate Count (APC) test. The ATP test measures the effectiveness of the sanitation processes in removing organic matter but is not a reliable indicator of bacterial inactivation.

MADERA, CA, April 15, 2020 — JBT Corporation (NYSE: JBT), a leading technology solutions provider to the global food and beverage industry, has introduced a new breakthrough for Continuous Rotary Sterilizers called Gentle Can Handling (GCH) which reduces damage to food containers as they run through the sterilization process.

In 1977, we entered the pharmaceutical label industry with GMP-compliant roll tack labels. In the early 1990s, we developed an LPE pack label equipped with light-shielding and shock-absorbing functions, establishing the position of labels as a functional packing materials in the pharmaceutical field.

SUREFISH (2020-2023), financed with 2 million euros by the PRIMA (Partnership on Research and Innovation in the Mediterranean Area) Program in the framework of the Horizon 2020 program, brings together organisations, companies and research centres from Spain, Italy, Tunisia, Egypt and Lebanon with an interdisciplinary approach to, through R&D, ensure fish authentication and reduce fraud based on RFID, Blockchain, TTI (time-temperature indicators) and tamper-proof technologies as well as to harmonize and validate related analytical methods and create a trans-national laboratories network.