New Packaging Equipment: September 2020
Advances in packaging materials continue to extend shelf life, while adding convenience and freshness to bakery and snack goods. Innovations in modified-atmosphere packaging (MAP), microbial-inhibiting film, and the use of cellulose nanocrystals are helping to push the envelope.
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Shorr Packaging
Website: www.shorr.com
Equipment Snapshot: Shorr Packaging Corp., Aurora, IL, continues to look to Europe, the Middle East, and Asia for new, cutting-edge materials that maximize shelf life, aesthetics and performance, according to Ken Nakashima, director, food packaging. “Various paper substrates continue to be the leading material of choice in the bakery segment for the majority of companies striving for sustainability and to meet corporate initiatives.”
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Dow Packaging and Specialty Plastics
Website: www.dow.com
Equipment Snapshot: Dow Packaging and Specialty Plastics, Midland, MI, continues its quest to develop sustainable packaging. The companies will begin offering Dow’s first-ever PCR-based packaging material later this year to companies that are demanding more sustainability in applications such as liners, shrink-wrap, and protective packaging. Dow will initially use the PCR from AI to create linear, low-density polyethylene products.
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Harpak-ULMA
Website: www.harpak-ulma.com
Equipment Snapshot: Harpak-ULMA Packaging LLC, Taunton, MA, offers the Mondini Platformer thermoformer, which allows snack-style trays (as well as other types) to be formed with 2 percent scrap material.
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Digimarc Corp.
Website: www.digimarc.com
Equipment Snapshot: Digimarc Corp., Beaverton, OR, offers an alternative packaging material solution. The Digimarc Barcode can replace traditional UPC/EAN barcodes and two-dimensional alternatives such as DataMatrix and QR codes, which are highly visible and require dedicated design space, limiting their use to just one instance per package.