Packaging is an issue of robust importance for manufacturers and brands alike, as they continue to look for new and innovative ways to make the end-to-end process more efficient, sustainable, and safe. 

Leveraging packaging and processing technologies that enhance food safety while reducing waste is vital if processors are to enhance efficiencies while operating in a more sustainable manner.

When it comes to protecting dairy products, the importance of secondary packaging is far from secondary.

Secondary packaging is designed to protect not only the dairy product, but also the primary packaging, which is typically the packaging most visible to the consumer in retail displays.

SIG Combibloc’s Hero tray is a display tray for tall, slim beverage cartons such as the carton bottle combidome.

A 12-pack of yogurt smoothies from Noga Dairy for club stores is merchandised in a corrugated box made by Sutherland Packaging.

During last year’s Pack Expo Show in November, PMMI (The Association for Packaging and Processing Technologies), Reston, Va., and Pack Expo owner and producer, released its 2014 Secondary Packaging Market Research Study.

 The Cabrio case from Delkor Systems easily converts a corrugated shipping case to a retail-ready display that is also a cost-saving alternative to tray/hood or regular slotted cases. 

 Alliedflex, a provider of global standup pouch and innovative pouch-and-bag packaging machinery systems from global suppliers now includes the Ixapack pouch automation systems machinery program. 

 A-B-C Packaging Machine Corp.’s model 436 case sealer offers both tape and adhesive sealing on one machine.