North America IML Containers specializes in manufacturing plastic cups with in-mold labels. These labels are tamper-evident, leak proof and freezer-grade resin.

Printpack provides heat shrinkable film products for a wide variety of applications.

From yogurt to pallet, Markem-Imaje offers a full product line of coding equipment. The small character 9000 Series inkjet coders, for example, facilitate operator activities by offering intuitive and improved ergonomic utilization.

Sealed Air’s Cryovac food packaging brings an optimized level of efficiency to automated bag loading with the BLX-F2 taped bag loader.

Overnight Labels is a manufacturer of custom printed products, including shrink sleeves, labels and flexible packaging.

Companies that build machinery to produce, trim and handle packages are a valuable resource to the package designer, says Brian Dowler of Graham Engineering, York, Pa. Their experience with a broad array of packages can benefit a dairy processor.Lessons that equipment vendors learned in one application, such as the production of bottles for non-food applications, often can be applied to produce innovative options for food packages as well, he says. Container light weighting is one example.