Ceepackaging

The growing market for self-service fresh meat in Eastern Europe has been reflected in increased demand for MAP meat tray solutions from RPC.

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.

CRYOVAC BDF® for whole birds is a shrink overwrap packaging under modified atmosphere combining a thin, anti-fog, barrier shrink film with a variety of trays. This technology offers the store-wrapped look with the added bonuses of enhanced branding, longer shelf-life and leak proof closure.

Cryovac has introduced the Mirabella® which it claims offers “Fresh thinking with less packaging” in a tray lidding system for bright, fresh meat.

The installation of two Ishida multihead weighers and two checkweighers at leading puff pastry manufacturer Cansimag France SA has halved the rate of product breakages as well as increasing weighing speed and accuracy.

The Belgian ready meal producer, Le Médaillon, has chosen SilviPak for the launch of its chilled oven dishes in the stores of the Dutch retailer Super de Boer.

Shown for the first time at Anuga, SilviPak is a new generation of natural packaging, based on pulp made from virgin wood fibres. The trays are dual ovenable and suitable for frozen and chilled ready meal products, challenging the “traditional” CPET and aluminium trays by being more natural and reducing both packaging weight and oil consumption.

If you want to accumulate less waste packaging, the single most important step is to shop less at supermarkets. Though the big retailers are making commendable efforts to cut down on packaging, there’s still too much of it. An 80g pack of organic Portobello mushrooms bought recently (not by me!) at a national chain came in a clingfilmed plastic tray weighing 20g – one quarter the weight of the contents.

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.

The use of multi-layer food trays from RPC Bebo UK Corby has enabled the Mispol Group to launch a new product range to meet the growing popularity of ready meals in the Polish market.

For tray and wrap-around packing machines, KHS now also offers a glue precisely corresponding to these applications: Innocoll HMP. KHS is thus building on its years of experience gathered with its Innocoll range of adhesives in the field of labeling technology.

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.