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Odary, a new umbrella brand from Agroprodukt in Kazakhstan, claims to have created of 30% per month by using reclosable packaging for its cottage cheese.

The patented Slide-Rite® closure system by Pactiv had already received much recognition and was already very successful in the United States by the time it was introduced in the European market in 2000. Since the introduction in Europe, the Slide-Rite® closure system has repeated its early success in the United States with a similar story in Europe being distributed in several countries and an ever increasing volume base.

The Packaging Community has undertaken a survey into decision making in packaging across 9 European countries and concluded that there is a big move towards environmentally-friendly and sustainable products. This is partly met in the trend towards lower weight, as discussed at the October 2009 AMI conference on Thin Wall Packaging held in Cologne, Germany. Jon Nash of AMI described typical applications: yoghurt, cheese, cream, fresh produce, bakery, yellow fats, ready meals, sandwiches, pet foods, frozen foods, etc. Dairy is the largest sector at almost 25% and chilled meals are among the fastest growing areas. PP and PS dominate, followed by PET and PVC with a small percentage of other materials.

Emmi, Switzerland's leading cheese and dairy product company, has introduced their brand new cheeseboard (“Käsplättli”) with a hard cheese range available in the two varieties; Swiss Tradition and Premium Selection. Now consumers have the choice between four different types of individually portioned cheese, but conveniently packed in one single pack.

Kerry Foods, a major supplier of chilled foods across Ireland and the UK, has chosen Amcor Stickpack for their recently launched Cheestrings Shots, a new product development to add variety to Cheestrings.

Austrian company Berglandmilch has invested in a multihead weigher and checkweigher from Ishida Europe, enabling it to pack grated cheese accurately into bags to within one gram of target weight and leading to a fast payback on the investment.

Tetra Pak today launched a new version of Tetra Tebel Casomatic which enables cheese producers to achieve superior and more consistent product quality without compromising food safety – while reducing operating costs and minimising their environmental impact.

The creative use of an in-mould labelled (IML) lid from RPC Bramlage Antwerpen, allied to an APET tray from RPC Bebo Nederland, has given cheese manufacturer FrieslandCampina a highly visible packaging format for its new range of cheese slices and pieces.

Sibirsky Bereg, a recognized leader in the Russian snack foods market, has chosen Amcor SerialCoding for the recent promotional campaign for its well known brand Kirieshky. Kirieshky is a dried rye bread snack that is available in nine different flavours: red caviar; smoked salmon; cheese; bacon and cheese; bacon; salami; jellied meat and horseradish; chicken; and pizza.

With the packaging of a product a producer makes also a statement on his attitude towards the environment. To position his product well, he must reconcile contradictory demands. On the one hand he must display environmental friendliness and keep the price low. Yet on the other hand the food must be reliably protected from exposure to oxygen and humidity. To address this challenge, ten SME-AGs and SMEs have joined forces with four research partners under the leadership of IRIS, a Spanish research centre, and PIMEC, the Catalonian SME association. Together they have discovered that whey protein has the potential to substitute polymer layers in the packing of food, and in particular of fresh food. By developing a technique for the manufacture of whey-coated plastic films with excellent oxygen barrier properties, improved water vapour properties and, in addition, antimicrobial activity, the consortium will improve food safety through the use of bio-based and partly also biodegradable packaging. Using a by-product from cheese production that accumulates in vast amounts to create value for commercial use means killing two birds with one stone - without making any concessions concerning safety and shelf life.

AGROHURT is a well established Polish dairy processor specializing in the production, curing, packing and wholesaling of high quality smoked cheese, supplied by the best cheese plants in the region. This family business owned and run by the brothers Czesław and Leszek Kuprel has experienced fantastic growth in the past five years, a result of its innovative product strategy focusing on premium quality and pioneering marketing.

The new Cryovac® ULMA FLOW-VAC® FV35 is an entry-level machine providing an automated packaging solution to small and medium sized smoked & processed meat and cheese processors looking for flexible, highly automated systems to minimize labour costs with reduced investments.

RPC Bramlage-Wiko’s skills in in-mould labeling (IML) has led leading cheese products manufacturer Hochland to move its best-selling Streichfein brand into an injection moulded container and lid offering advanced all-over decoration.

Cryovac OSB® 4550 belongs to a new range of overlap-sealable, high performance, multilayer, coextruded shrink bags specially designed for cheese applications. This bag further enhances the wide and unique range of Cryovac® shrink bags for cheese curing, enlarging the offer with a medium abuse product for low gassing cheese.

Milk Link’s new sliced packaging format was short-listed amongst the best packaging initiatives at the 2008 Dairy Innovation Awards, a global initiative organised by Dairy Innovation magazine.

Tetra Tebel Alfomatic cheddar equipment is a versatile, modular solution for automatic whey drainage, fusing, stretching, milling and salting of cheese curd - for Cheddar and Mozzarella cheese types.

Président, number one Camembert brand of the Lactalis group, is launching new packaging in total contrast to market trends in the form of a miniature cheese cover, thereby surpassing the competition and consolidating the brand’s market leadership. The new packaging features a dome and a base, both of which are protected by Sleevercap®, designed by Sleever International®.

DSM Engineering Plastics has introduced Akulon XP, a high productivity grade of PA6 for film applications. Akulon XP offers a broader processing window leading to more flexibility and more uniform thickness distribution in cast film, more melt strength and better parison stability leading to optimized LDPE/LLDPE ratio in multi-layer films without sacrificing the mechanical properties, more shear thinning than with standard PA6 enabling thus higher coating velocities possible and still absolutely gel free.

RPC Bebo is to expand its operations in Poland through the acquisition of rival packager 4 You Sigal, as the company looks to move into new markets.

Superfos UniPak Strainer which carries Arla Foods feta-brand ‘Apetina’ has received the ‘Deutcher Verpackungspreis 2006’