Packaging
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.
Fresh packaging company StePac L.A. Ltd., Tefen, Israel, has unveiled a sustainability strategy with four pillars.
Starting in 2020, new generic Universal Product Codes will not be issued for produce in the U.S. and Canada, with company-specific codes taking their place.
Natural Delights, Yuma, Ariz., is launching new packaging made from 100% post-consumer recycled plastic for its dates.
Starr Ranch Growers, Wenatchee, Wash., has new sustainable packaging for organic apples.
StePac, Tefen, Israel, has new bin liners designed to extend the storage life of fresh pomegranates.
Itallian packaging and equipment company Sorma Group has a new packaging line that not only reduces overall plastic, but makes recycling of the packaging components easier.
The Reusable Packaging Association has launched the 2020 State of the Reusable Packaging Industry Survey.
Bard Valley Date Growers Association has unveiled new sustainable packaging
California lawmakers appear poised to pass legislation that could dramatically alter the way produce is packed in the state within 10 years.
WeighPack Systems Inc., Montreal, has a new system that can vacuum pack produce and other foods.
UPDATED: The Reusable Packaging Association is offering a two-hour educational program on how reusable packaging offers users a circular supply chain option.
Homegrown Organic Farms, Porterville, Calif., has rebranded, with a new logo and packaging design.
Package Containers Inc., Canby, Ore., has hired Larry Grove as manufacturing operations manager.
Georgia growers who supply mostly retailers say they’re doing fine, but as for foodservice business — well, not so much.
Protective layers seem to be in demand during the COVID-19 pandemic, and that applies to produce, marketers say.