April 19, 2024

Processing and Packaging

How closer collaboration between solutions suppliers is keeping processors and packhouses ahead of the Game

With processing machinery becoming more interconnected, new business partnerships are making day-to-day operations easier at processors and packhouses. They are also accelerating the development of new solutions. Bjorn Thumas, TOMRA Food’s Vice President of Mergers & Acquisitions and Partnerships, explains. Machines on food processing lines talk to each other. Not in a fantastical way, like

What is drupa? Far more than just a tradeshow!

Over the last 20 years, the way to engage with customers across the entire sales-cycle has evolved beyond recognition. New technologies have enabled things that simply were not possible before and this process continues. Traditional customer touchpoints are being challenged, even replaced, as the mix of engagement activities becomes more complex and sophisticated. So here

GEA supplies HEINEKEN UK with heat pump solution for the Manchester site

GEA supplies its long-term customer HEINEKEN UK with a low-carbon heat network for its Manchester brewery. This is in support of HEINEKEN’s global ambition to reach net zero across its production sites (scopes 1 and 2) by 2030. The Manchester brewery produces about 400 million liters of Heineken®, Birra Moretti and Foster’s beer per year.

GEA bundles and modernizes spare parts supply in new logistics center

A new logistics center is currently being built in Sehnde near Hanover, Germany, for the supply of spare parts for all plants and components of GEA’s Separation & Flow Technologies Division (SFT). Together with the new partner Kuehne+Nagel, the focus is on state-of-the-art automated storage systems, maximum flexibility and sustainability. The logistics center is scheduled

70 years of Hassia – a success story

On the occasion of the company’s 70thanniversary, Hassia Verpackungsmaschinen GmbH in Ranstadt organised an open day for all employees, pensioners and the public on 8th July 2023. The company’s anniversary was to be taken as an opportunity to show the public what it means to package food. From the left tot he right: Thomas Becker

Intermarché pioneering SIG packaging material

Intermarché, one of the most popular retail chains in France, demonstrates its relentless commitment to sustainability as it becomes the first in the country to use tethered SIG SwiftCap Linked closures on SIG’s carton packs. This pivotal move covers their entire private label juice portfolio of around 20 SKUs. The fruit juice for the Paquito

swop to take place annually

The Shanghai World of Packaging (swop) will be happening every year from 2024. Under the interpack alliance umbrella, the trade fair is paying even stronger attention to the requirements of the local market and is strengthening international relations within the processing and packaging industry. Even before the start of swop 2023, it was clear that

adapa Group Introduces EcoString Bag as a Sustainable Alternative to Drawstring Bags

adapa Group, a leading flexible packaging solutions company in Europe, is revolutionizing the classic drawstring bag for hygiene and cosmetic products with the introduction of the enhanced EcoString bag. This innovative bag contains 80% post-consumer recycled (PCR) content, making it a more sustainable choice compared to regular drawstring bags. The EcoString bag is a true

tna solutions helps Mister Bee potato chips increase production capacity by 400%

TNA Solutions, a global supplier of integrated food processing and packaging solutions, has partnered with Mister Bee Potato Chips, an iconic American brand founded in 1951, to revolutionise its snack production and enable it to realise its ambitious goals going forward. TNA completely redesigned and optimised the company’s manufacturing site in Parkersburg, West Virginia, achieving

BW Flexible Systems hosts ribbon-cutting event to unveil new Minnesota facility

BW Flexible Systems, BW Packaging’s global manufacturer of flexible packaging machinery, will host a ribbon-cutting ceremony and tour for customers and media members at 1 p.m. Tuesday, May 30, atits new Brooklyn Park manufacturing facility. The site, located at 9360 West Broadway Avenue, Suite 100, was designed to be a vibrant workplace, research and development

Provisur® Technologies presents innovations and high-performance legacy brands for industrial food processing

Provisur Technologies, a leading industrial food processing equipment manufacturer headquartered in Chicago, Illinois, USA, will showcase the company’s food processing innovations at Propak Asia, June 14 – 17, 2023, in Bangkok, Thailand. The booth will feature high-performing machines such as the versatile Formax® NovaMax® 150 Former, the maximum-yield SM® 820 Separator and the Lutetia® T2

interpack 2023: The SAVE FOOD Initiative takes a visible stand against food waste

interpack, the world’s largest trade fair for processing and packaging, is again taking a visible stand against the world-wide waste of food from 04 to 10 May in Düsseldorf. Members and partners of the SAVE FOOD Initiative demonstrate how food can be safely processed and packaged, how its shelf life can be extended and how any

Danish Innovation at InterPack 2023

Danish companies are in a class of their own when it comes to sustainability and innovation in packaging solutions, and Interpack is an ideal showcase to show the world what Denmark has to offer.Whether it is recyclable or compostable packaging, or production lines that last year after year due to quality and reliability, sustainability and

New GEA control top generation provides explosion protection for food producers

GEA completes the T.VIS® control top series with a version for potentially explosive processes: GEA T.VIS® E-20 is of interest to the dairy industry, among others, which processes highly flammable hazardous substances in the form of milk powder and sugar dust – for example in the production of fruit preparations. In the food, dairy, chemical