Ceepackaging

Ishida Europe has launched a new system for the fast and efficient packing of trays into cases and Eurocrates. Operating at speeds of up to 150 trays per minute, the Ishida IPS has been designed for a wide range of products and applications, including ready meals, meat and poultry, seafood, salads, dairy, fresh fruit and confectionery.

The Norwegian confectionery company Brynild Gruppen has found a true recipe for success for its Dent pastille. Since its relaunch in the market in February 2008, Dent's sales have increased by more than 70 percent! A new package made from Stora Enso Performa White board is part of the new concept.

Amcor PushPop, the easy-open and fun-shaped flexible pack from Amcor Flexibles, has been chosen by major UK retailer Sainsbury’s and Kinnerton Confectionery for the launch of the new Sainsbury’s Taste The Difference range of Dusted Milk Chocolate Hazelnuts, Belgian Milk Chocolate Fruit & Nut Selection and White Chocolate Strawberries.

How will packaging look in ten years? What are our consumption patterns, and what makes packaging sell? These are the questions Korsnäs asked young design students at the Packaging Impact Design Awards (PIDA). This year, concurrent competitions were held in Sweden, Germany and France. First out of the box was the Hochschule der Medien in Stuttgart. This year’s PIDA coincides with Korsnäs’ introduction of the new cartonboard Frövi White, and the contest assignment was to choose a luxury product in the beauty, beverage, confectionery, fashion, media or health & medical segment and design packaging for it using Frövi White These are the market segments for which Korsnäs introduced the new board, developed with focus on whiteness, smoothness and formability.

Two of the world’s leading companies in the packaging industry, Multivac and Ishida, have agreed upon a strategic cooperation to provide customers with fully integrated, best-in-class packing line solutions.

tna, a world leader in the design and manufacture of vertical form, fill and seal (VFFS) systems, will display a robag3® rotary triple jaw machine at ProSweets, 29th January through 1st February, 2007, Koelnmesse Hochhaus.

RPC Bebo is to expand its packaging operations in Poland through the acquisition of rival firm 4 You Sigal, as the company looks to move into the confectionery packaging market.

WALKI®PackMetalex is an ideal packaging material for cosmetics, alcoholic beverages and confectionery. The metal coating makes for a shining and luxurious impression, while cardboard gives the package stability.

The Austrian packaging firm GIKO has announced a lot of interest in all three of its business segments flexible packaging, rigid packaging and cardboard packaging at the Fachpack international packaging fair in Nuremberg. The company is now expecting significant postfair business.

At FachPack, GIKO will be focusing special attention on mono and composite films with full-surface or partial wax lamination as a speciality seldom found in Europe. There is a growing market for this type of packaging in the form of twist films with aluminium lamination for confectionery, stock cube wrapping, etc.