Produce Packaging Topic | Packaging Strategies

Walmart and IFCO Enhance Agreement

February 9, 2021

IFCO will be Walmart’s exclusive provider of reusable plastic containers for select fruits and vegetables in the U.S.

New GS1 Digital Link Guideline Helps Retail Industry Quickly Provide Product Data to Consumers

November 17, 2020

The new GS1 US guideline helps the retail industry implement GS1 Digital Link, a standard that allows brands to web-enable barcodes and provide consumers with rich product information with a single scan.

Hazel Technologies Launches Sachet to Extend Shelf Life for Produce

Hazel Technologies Launches Sachet to Extend Shelf Life of Produce

October 30, 2020

Hazel Technologies, a USDA-funded company providing new technologies to extend the quality shelf life of produce and fight food waste, announces the launch of a new organic compatible product line, Hazel™ O, with Miami, FL-based WP Produce, a grower of tropical avocados.

Harpak-ULMA Launches PaperSeal® Sustainable Food Packaging Solution

September 9, 2020

Harpak-ULMA has launched its PaperSeal® packaging technology as part of the company’s initiative to fundamentally rethink packaging systems to promote green packaging alternatives across the food industry.

OpX Column

OpX Drives Excellence for North American Manufacturing

Dr. Bryan Griffen

September 9, 2020

New solutions continue to be developed by multiple Task Forces and Solutions. Currently, available OpX Leadership Network solutions and best practices are divided into three streams and nine specific topics (as shown in July’s column).

Dole Worldwide Packaged Foods Division of Dole Asia Holdings Pte. Ltd.

Market Trends

Produce Moves to the Pantry

Due in part to the ongoing pandemic, consumers are choosing shelf-stable and frozen fruits and vegetables over fresh.

Kristen Kazarian

August 10, 2020

The impact of COVID-19 will likely last for quite a while and with it, the rise of in-home food and beverage consumption will continue for the foreseeable future.

DS Smith to Supply 750,000 Produce Boxes to Families in Need in Columbia

DS Smith to Supply 750,000 Produce Boxes to South Carolina Families in Need

July 22, 2020

Food banks and nonprofit organizations across South Carolina, George and Florida have received more than 385,000 containers of fruit and vegetables, shipped in 100% recyclable Greencoat boxes produced at the local DS Smith plant for Atlanta-based Collins Brothers Produce.

Spotlight

Active Packaging Functions Gain More Traction

One solution was modified to work for foods as well as pharmaceuticals.

Kristen Kazarian

July 8, 2020

Active, smart and intelligent packaging solutions are used with food, pharmaceuticals and several other types of products to help extend shelf life, monitor freshness with temperature control, display information on quality, improve safety and improve user convenience.

No Evidence of Contracting COVID-19 from Food Packaging Say FDA and USDA

June 26, 2020

U.S. Secretary of Agriculture, Sonny Perdue, and FDA Commissioner, Stephen M. Hahn, M.D., issued a statement regarding food export restrictions pertaining to COVID-19.

Cooking at Home Is Here to Stay

June 24, 2020

Goldbeck Recruiting, a globally connected executive search firm based in Vancouver, British Columbia, interviewed industry professionals across the continent and found a boost for locally produced goods.