Packaging
West Pak Avocado, Murrieta, Calif., plans to promote its bagged avocado program and the brands that differentiates the company in the industry at the Produce Marketing Association’s Fresh Summit.
All of Mastronardi Produce’s Sunset brand greenhouse grown produce will be sold in packaging that’s reusable, recyclable or compostable by 2025.
Sun Automation Group, Glen Arm, Md., has promoted Frank Reynolds to director of sales.
The corrugated packaging industry has chosen America Recycles Day to shine a light on a recovery rate of 96% in 2018.
Robinson Fresh is taking the guesswork out of choosing avocados that will be ripe throughout the week with a four-pack of fruit at different stages of ripeness.
Taking a look back at 2019, IFCO used company resources, expertise and employee engagement to help those in need.
The Netherlands-based PerfoTec has a new system that allows shippers to make their own modified atmosphere liner bags to prolong shelf life.
Fox Packaging, McAllen, Texas, has promoted Lucas Fox to director of operations.
Berry growers and trade associations in the U.S., Mexico and South America are pledging to use 100% recycle-ready packaging for all fresh berries by 2025.
University of California-Davis researchers are taking an innovative approach to guarding fruits and vegetables against microbial cross-contamination by seeking a way to make produce containers fight against pathogens.
Signode Industrial Group, Glenview, Ill., has shortened its name to Signode and launched a new brand identity.
New recyclable corrugated packaging options are available from Castroville, Calif.-based Ocean Mist Farms.
The topic of plastic in produce packaging has been addressed in a big way by the Canadian Produce Marketing Association.
Packaging company Sev-Rend, Collinsville, Ill., has hired Art Vega as vice president of business development.
MountainKing Potato, Houston, is implementing an aggressive retail program to promote smaller potatoes.
This year’s nominees for the Fruit Logistica Innovation Award includes Sinclair International’s EcoLabel.
Moxxy Marketing, Salinas, Calif., received an award for designs for sliced apples bags and applesauce containers for school lunches.
For the third year, IFCO Systems is offering grower and retailer customers who use the company’s reusable plastic containers a certificate noting its sustainability initiatives.
Greensboro, N.C.-based Syngenta is investing $2 billion in sustainable agriculture, and the company said part of the investment will go toward packaging innovations.
Giro Pack Inc., Atlanta, has a territory account manager and a national technical service manager.
StePac, Tefen, Israel, is changing the traditional shipping method of packing broccoli and other vegetables in ice, with its modified atmosphere/modified humidity packaging.
Gills Onions, Oxnard, Calif., is celebrating a decade of sustainability initiatives by adding a solar energy project at its processing facility.
Fox Packaging, McAllen, Texas, has hired Jasper Trujillo as business development manager.
Bosch is selling its Waiblingen, Germany-based packaging machinery business, which includes equipment used to package fresh produce, to Luxemburg-based CVC Capital Partners.
Coral Gables, Fla.-based Del Monte Fresh Produce will showcase Del Monte’s new film-sealed fruit cups at the July 26-27 Produce Marketing Association Foodservice Conference and Expo in Monterey, Calif.
I have discussed the results of an online survey we put out in conjunction with The Packer’s 125th-anniversary publication several times in this space.
The acquisition of Brooks and Co. and J&J Distributing by the Dragonfly Group should be completed in the fall.
Chocolate Avocado Delight and several new salsas are on the way from Russ Davis Wholesale, Wadena, Minn., said vice president Pat Miller.
Wish Farms, Plant City, Fla., has a smartphone app that brings new labels on its berry packs to life with augmented reality.
NatureFresh Farms, Leamington, Ontario, has distributed six million products with compostable pulp molded trays in the past year.