Packaging Digest - September 1, 2012

New developments in high-pressure processing for food and beverage pasteurization continue to advance the technology. What are the packaging implications?

• Walmart vendors improve compliance with 'Green Guides'
• Produce farm makes its case for robotic packing
• Medical packaging company develops healing solution
• Millennials judge food by its cover
• Group puts its money where the mouths are

• Columns
• Packademics
• Consumer perceptions influence packaging design

• Features
• Sony keeps distribution defects down, efficiencies up
• Bottling Line
• Bottles fly on new aseptic line
• Pouch Packaging
• Smooth running with vf/f/s
• Power Packaging
• Food company bulks up its productivity

• New Products: Equipment
• New equipment September 2012

• New Products: Materials
• NEW MATERIALS September 2012

• Sustainable Packaging
• Bad packaging designs perpetuate negative costs to our communities