Ceepackaging

Ishida Europe has extended its range of solutions for the weighing and packing of fresh, sticky products with the introduction of a new range of ‘Screw Feed’ multihead weighers, which allows the fully automatic handling of these types of products for the first time.

Packforum®, the Sealed Air Cryovac European customer care center near Paris, hosted its second global fish and seafood event last month. The programme comprised a seminar session with a series of presentations from leading industry experts on all aspects of fish packaging, specific workshops and an optional tour of a flagship French supermarket store. The event welcomed 85 delegates from retail, industry and food sciences representing 64 companies and 21 countries in West and Eastern Europe as well as Saudi Arabia.

RPC Bebo UK Corby and RPC Barrier Containers France have provided new plastic packaging for major Spanish fish processor Salica, enabling its range of tuna-based ready meals to be heated directly in the microwave.

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 Containers Blackburn is creating a new look for its market-leading Thor range as part of an initiative to reduce packaging weight. At the same time, the company is also launching a brand new size into the range, a 280ml version, specifically developed for fish products such as roll mop herrings and prawn cocktails.