Packaging protects the product, but it is also a billboard of sorts where processors make claims about a food’s nutrition, value and ingredients.

At City Kidz Food Science Educational Lab, there’s more to ice cream than meets the scoop. Whether it’s learning the behind-the-scenes production process, understanding food science and technology or working to put a product on national stores’ shelves, the lab provides more than just a typical classroom experience.

The PET sheet innovation DPET covers all the needs of cheese processors, brand owners and consumers. Joe Barenberg, Chief Operating Officer of Octal explains: “DPET is perfectly suited for form-fill-seal applications.

Tetra Pak in May launched the Tetra Evero Aseptic 1 liter, the first aseptic carton bottle for milk. Employing market driven insight and breakthrough engineering techniques, Tetra Evero Aseptic for white milk combines the easy handling and pouring of a bottle with the environmental and cost advantages of a carton.

Wilmington Machinery expands its product offering of its plastic pallet making systems with the new Pallateer #4 System (PM #4).

ITW Muller, a leading manufacturer of both innovative stretch wrap equipment and high quality stretch wrap film, introduces the Tail Tucker.

Aplix introduced a new re-closable system for flexible packaging at Interpack 2011 in Düsseldorf , Germany, in May. Easy-Lock by Aplix is currently being used in cheese and other applications. 

Polypack has built a completely new Wrap Around Case Packer to compliment its existing line of shrink wrap equipment. 

Hail the hard-working label. It imparts nutrition data and other product attributes to shoppers, while providing tamper-evidence.

Silgan IPEC’s product portfolio includes a range of 38 millimeter dairy closures consisting of a virtually leak-proof ISO (screw-on), consumer-friendly ISS (screw on or snap-on/screw-off), industry staple lightweight ITT (tamper