Food Packaging

This change in distributorship allows Bartelt to expand and streamline the HFFS product lines both Bartelt and FLtècnics, and strategically aligns them to more effectively provide the best solution for a variety of customer applications. Bartelt is a leading manufacturer of pouching, cartoning, shrink wrapping, case and tray packing systems for numerous markets, including food and confectionary, beverage, pharmaceutical, and others. 

Baby food brand Piccolo has launched what it claims is the UK’s first 100 per cent recyclable baby food pouch suitable for kerbside recycling.

Rather than the standard plastics and aluminium structure, Piccolo’s Yellow & Go pouches are made using a single material, polypropylene. The company has partnered with recycling scheme, First Mile, to ensure that consumers can recycle them from home. The multipack box doubles up as a returns box, with a QR code that allows consumers to download the free returns label to put on the box and send to First Mile.

The company says it has created new packaging for cold and frozen foods that is made from recycled paper, and can be recycled in curbside bins. It rolls out starting this month for Amazon Fresh and Whole Foods grocery deliveries.

The packaging is also produced in different regions of the United States, closer to the locations that will use it, further reducing the environmental impact, says Stephenie Landry, vice president of Amazon’s grocery business, in a post announcing the new packaging.

“CäPeachio’s has always been a brand that keeps up with the times,” says James Anderko, Vice President of Sales. “While the crackers themselves are timeless, it’s important to us that the packaging continues to attract the modern customer.”   

The brand refresh includes all-new photography of the elegantly simple crackers with new toppings. A deeper, more vibrant color palette, coupled with subtle patterns, highlights the range of flavors. As always, CäPeachio’s old-world-style crackers are all-natural, vegan, non-GMO, and kosher.

In August 2020, we flagged that New York took a significant step in becoming the third state in the country to ban the use of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) in food packaging. At the time, the legislation (S.8817 and A.4739-C) was passed by the New York State Legislature, but had not been signed into law by Governor Cuomo. On December 3, 2020, Governor Cuomo took the final step and signed the PFAS food packaging ban it into law, joining Maine and Washington in banning the use of PFAS in food packaging.

PFAS are a diverse family of synthetic chemicals that are used in the manufacturing of every day products with anti-stain, water, grease, oil and/or dirt-repelling properties. These products include fast food containers, microwave popcorn bags, paper wrappers such as those for sandwiches and butter, and many others. The PFAS in Food Packaging Law, an update to the New York State Hazardous Packaging Act, will take effect on December 31, 2022. The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) will be testing for PFAS in food packaging beginning in 2023 in New York State.

South Korea with an annual average instant noodle consumption of some 3.7 billion units is a heaven for Ramyeon lovers. The most popular kind of Ramyeon in 2022 is "Shinramyun" (9.8 percent) made by food ingredient maker Nongshim. Ottogi's bestseller "Jin ramen" (9.33 percent) was ranked sixth on South Korea's instant noodle popularity chart in 2022, according to pollster Nielsen IQ Korea.

They are optimally tailored to the respective product and interfere with the environment as little as possible. At the same time, they fulfill their purpose of protection, extended shelf life and the clear separation of conventional goods in mixed retail, where in addition to organic goods, non-organic products are also offered. It is precisely there that it is important to use printed packaging to label organic goods so clearly that the consumer can find the organic food he is looking for without a doubt and without the risk of confusion.