Aptar Food + Beverage has announced a new addition to its portfolio of packaging solutions. The 2” Ultra XLV closure is a large valve that can dispense thick and high viscosity food products, ensuring that dispensing is clean, controlled and convenient. The product can be integrated in rigid bottles or inverted flexible pouches, the latter becoming the more preferred packaging option. More are considering putting items like guacamole, peanut butter, cream cheese and similar food into squeeze … [Read more...] about Aptar Food + Beverage introduces new flow control solution
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Grupo Modelo invests on eco-friendly can packaging rings from WestRock, Grupo Gondi
Leader in the brewing, distribution and sale of beer in Mexico Grupo Modelo is investing about $4 million in a sustainable packaging solution from WestRock and Grupo Gondi. The fiber-based CanCollar® Eco product helps eliminate plastic rings in Mexico, starting in Quintana Roo, amounting to 12 million plastic rings per year. Grupo Modelo is the first company in the Americas to adopt CanCollar® Eco, which replaces hard-to-recycle plastic and yields 100 tonnes less plastic. This innovation uses … [Read more...] about Grupo Modelo invests on eco-friendly can packaging rings from WestRock, Grupo Gondi
NTU Singapore, Harvard University scientists design sustainable microbe-killing food packaging
In order to provide sustainable food solutions, scientists from the NTU-Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health Initiative for Sustainable Nanotechnology (NTU-Harvard SusNano) have developed a biodegradable food packaging material that can eliminate harmful bacteria. Researchers from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore and Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health have collaborated on this new technology, which is also water-proof and able to extend shelf-life of fresh fruit by up to … [Read more...] about NTU Singapore, Harvard University scientists design sustainable microbe-killing food packaging