Food

Flow packs are becoming increasingly popular in the food industry – even in the case of fresh ground meat from prepacked counters, consumers are now resolutely opting for unconventional bag packs. SÜDPACK identified this market trend at an early stage and, above all, adjusted its portfolio to the rising demand for recyclable alternatives. Recyclable high-performance PP and PE-based film for efficiently packaging food in bags, in particular, will therefore be on display on the lines of various packaging machine manufacturers at IFFA in Frankfurt.

• GEA will showcase its Mobile Test Center (MTC) for new food applications
• The MTC enables customers to evaluate process and product concepts as well as prepare them for commercial manufacturing
• Visit GEA at Anuga FoodTec, Hall 5.1, booth C.001/D.019

The need to sustainably transform the food industry and find alternative sources of nutrition has never been more pressing, concludes a report by the U.S. Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO).

Decreased production downtime and reduced cost of ownership for ZERO Technology tools, which allow food manufacturers to easily break monomaterial multipacks into individual cups.

The German biogas plant specialist WELTEC BIOPOWER registers keen interest in its plant technology in Greece. In the past year, WELTEC expanded its market leadership in the southern European country by building four further projects and expanding three existing plants. Due to the great potential of organic residues to produce biogas and biomethane, especially in the north of the country, the climate-friendly energy source is playing an increasingly important role in the Greek energy transition.

Tekni-Plex Consumer Products is expanding its product line to include foam polypropylene processor trays for fresh food products such as meat, poultry, pork, fruits and vegetables – diversifying material offerings for this category. The announcement was made in advance of the International Production & Processing Expo in Atlanta, January 25-27.

A new design, simple navigation and real added value: SÜDPACK has been online with its new website since January 2022, one that sets new standards in communication, particularly in terms of user-friendliness and the depth of information. The goal of the website relaunch is to provide a special kind of information experience – and to also adapt the positioning of the SÜDPACK brand due to the sharp changes in market requirements.

Ardagh Glass Packaging in Nienburg produces 150 different glass bottles and jars for the food and the beverage industry. One bottle in particular - the extraordinary blue Hitchcock Juice Collection glass bottle – has received the highly prized “Product Innovation in Glass” award, presented at the November Aktionsforum Glasverpackung, an initiative of the Federal Association of the German Glass Industry (BV Glas).

Glass bottle impresses with its design and functionality

• Collaboration led to top prizes at prestigious French packaging awards
• Packaging producer Mondi developed the recyclable functional barrier paper allowing Les Crudettes to save 137 tonnes of plastic per year, the equivalent weight of one blue whale
• Machine supplier IMA Ilapak developed new solutions on their range of vertical baggers ''Vegatronic'' to handle paper-based materials at high speed
• French vegetable producer Les Crudettes uses the new paper packaging to replace plastic packaging for its ready to eat salads in France

Thanks to enhanced performance, Sidel’s Super Combi Compact complete water line opened the door for more business opportunities for Zulal Water Factory, in Sharjah, UAE (Zulal). Running at up to 45,000 bottles per hour (bph), the line not only delivers increased productivity by 280%, but also helps the company save 56% on energy costs, when compared with their existing PET line. In addition, with the new, lighter PET bottle and optimisation of utilities, there has been a considerable reduction in the overall carbon footprint.