Food Packaging

The new cleaner packaging design will feature Biscoff as the core brand in a larger font for improved customer brand recognition, with the reduced Lotus marque acting as an endorsement to the core brand.

Frances Booth, category development & marketing manager at Lotus Bakeries says: “This greater focus on Biscoff on the packaging will immediately grab the customer’s eye in-store with most consumers regularly referring to the brand simply as, Biscoff.”

Synerlink, a leading provider of sustainable packaging solutions for the food industry, has introduced Versatech, a forward-looking filling solution tailored for the food and dairy sector. Versatech's modular design allows customers to adapt this packaging innovation to their evolving business strategies over time.

A wide range of UPM Specialty Papers’ label papers have been certified as industrially and home compostable, helping brand owners and label converters meet their target of prioritizing materials with a sustainable end of life.

he preferred end of life for any paper is to be recycled as fibres. However, compostability is an area that sets fibre-based and fossil-based materials apart. While it is estimated that fossil-based materials take hundreds of years to decompose, the industrial compostability standard requires that material disintegrates into soil in less than 12 weeks.

Food and beverage brands constantly launch new products and new packages, many of which are posted to social media — if you can find them. Packaging Digest highlights the best of them on a regular basis, with the most recent “find” at the beginning. Come back often to quickly scroll through to see what you’ve missed. You'll find the just archived Best in Food & Beverage Packaging for August at this link

Unilever brand Pot Noodle is trialing paper pots for its instant noodle soups with UK supermarket Tesco. The new pots can reportedly be recycled at home with other paper waste and include on-pack recycling labels to guide shoppers on correct disposal. 

The new design marks the brand’s biggest innovation in its packaging since its launch over 40 years ago. Pot Noodle, the UK’s “biggest” instant hot snack brand, says the new paper pot has launched with an initial stock of 500,000 for the brand’s Chicken & Mushroom flavor. 

Forbo Movement Systems is launching a new belt. It’s ideal for narrow applications and conveying unpackaged food like chocolate bars or snacks.

The new Transilon E 2/1 U0/U8 LG blue FDA (art. no. 904718) was originally developed for a renowned OEM of tubular bag packaging machines and now makes knife edge applications for mini conveyors possible. The advantage of a conveyor belt with a knife edge is the very narrow gap during belt transfer between two conveyors for instance. Therefore, even very small products are transferred very gently.

BioPak’s new products include various sizes of chip boxes, chip cups, wrap wedges, sandwich wedges, ice cream cups, sushi trays and taco boxes.

The new sandwich wedges and wrap wedges are made from a sustainably sourced FSC Mix certified paperboard, with a waterproof Ingeo bioplastic lining and window.

The chip boxes and scoops are made with sustainably sourced FSC-certified paper and are certified industrially compostable.