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A number of French school canteens are benefiting from the long-term product freshness and attractive appearance of plastic cups supplied by RPC Barrier Containers France.

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.

The purchase of two new R-Series multihead weighers from Ishida Europe has doubled the packing speed at leading fresh and frozen shrimp supplier Goldfish B.V.

Urban Foods has brought convenience and style to its new Greenshoot fresh soup range by selecting the innovative pack format for ambient soups launched by RPC Bebo Nederland and RPC Containers Halstead.

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.

Packaging is the “business card” of a product. It makes it stand out from the rest of the bulk on the shelf, offers space for information and provides the consumer with a further incentive to buy. Functional characteristics have become more and more important for packaging during the last years. They offer an added value by reporting the freshness of a product or changes of important quality factors, such as temperature and humidity. For perishable goods such as meat and fish, the main concern of producers and retail is to enforce the shelf life of their products by preventing quality loss.

With a number of fully integrated packing lines on display, Ishida Europe will be showcasing its expertise in automation, safety and QC systems at Interpack 2008, along with weighing and packing solutions for a variety of end markets including fresh and frozen foods and snacks.

In response to the needs of the food packaging industry for more efficient and higher quality packaging, Borealis, a leading provider of innovative, value creating plastics solutions, has launched Bormod™ BJ368MO. This new injection moulding polypropylene (PP) grade offers sturdy performance, faster productivity and light weight properties. The new solution can be used to produce consumer food containers for products such as refrigerated salads, margarines, and fresh and frozen dairy products.

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.

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.