Chicago-based Packaging Dynamics Corp. says Groupe De Luxe will support its continuing growth with the addition of leading positions in new geographies, products and end markets.
Health is usually not a driver in confectionery purchases and consumption, but the growing interest in ‘natural’ as a whole has made an impression in this market and is pushing a move by processors to adopt clean-labeling in the industry.
Pork rinds are probably the most misunderstood item in the snack category. This is surprising, because people have been eating pork rinds—also called pork skins—as long as they have been eating pigs. One of the world’s first snack foods created thousands of years ago, and favored in the southern states, pork rinds are a simple combination of fried pork skins and salt.
Analysis from Frost & Sullivan indicates that changing lifestyles and consequent dependence on processed, packaged and pre-cooked foods is increasing the sales of flexible packaging. Rigid packaging is visibly giving way to flexible packaging due to the latter's lightweight, superior barrier properties and prudent use of materials.
The 2013 Packaging Conference, slated for Feb. 4-6 in Atlanta’s Ritz-Carlton, Buckhead, will focus on brand owner packaging initiatives and emerging technologies.
New vertical and horizontal form/fill/seal systems help bakers and snack producers address consumer eating trends and be more productive and profitable.
Axium Foods’ 130,000-sq.-ft, corn-based snacks operation in South Beloit, Ill., has expanded several times, thanks in part to the success of the many private-label products it packs and products it copacks. It’s also launching its own line of Mystic Harvest purple tortilla chips, which contain powerful antioxidants. Outfitted with seven highly flexible production lines, Axium produces 150 different stock-keeping units of snacks each week.
California’s Proposition 37, which would have required labeling of genetically modified foods, was soundly defeated in last Tuesday’s election. The measure trailed 53% to 47%, with nearly 90% of the vote counted at 3:30 a.m.
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