Convenience is the one driving force influencing food packaging today. Consumer expectations, from ordering delivery, making a quick lunch or preparing meals for the week, are that packaging is time-saving, reduces mess, and integrates perfectly in t...
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Sustainability is no longer a “specialty” marketing component. It's become an essential expectation for consumers, retailers and regulators. Packaging is the most tangible aspect of an environmental commitment for the food brand. While a ...
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These days, people have too much choice of food to choose from. On every shelf and carrying bag, bright colors and bold statements vie for attention, and busy designs are everywhere. But there are many successful brands getting ahead of the trend. Th...
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Food transportation is hard on disposable lunch boxes, especially for food service on airplanes, railroads, to remote sites, and for exporting food. They need to endure hours of vibration, temperature fluctuations, stacking pressure and humidity chan...
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The food delivery business is fast, large and accurate. Each second actually saved from kitchen to customer equals more orders per shift, less food going bad, and reduced expenses. There is a lot of focus on the menu, drivers and apps but the little ...
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Takeout and delivery has come a long way to become a huge industry around the world. As the growth comes so does the competition. Your lunch box is not just a lunch box, it's a brand experience. If a box is poorly constructed, flimsy or leaky, then c...
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The selection of fruit box material is a strategic choice for the growers, packers and exporters. Each material of cardboard, plastic and wood has its pros and cons when it comes to cost, durability, hygiene, sustainability and the performance of the...
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Fruit exports from farms to foreign supermarkets are difficult and strenuous for exporters. Boxes are placed on pallets, put on containers, taken over sea, loaded on trucks and put on retail shelves. They are subjected to temperature change, humidity...
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Efficiency is the single most important factor in a successful fruit box business versus one that has to deal with cost escalation, delays and waste. Efficient packaging lines generate higher units per hour, consume less material waste, require less ...
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Fresh fruit is a product of senses. Customers purchase by the looks, colors, shine and arrangement, as well as by taste. However, no matter how lovely the berry or cherry or any fruit of the citrus family is, it can appear just so-so in weak packagin...
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The terms biodegradable and compostable are often used in context of sustainable food packaging, as is the need for sustainable packaging in general. Though these terms are similar, they have very different meanings. The wrong term or, even worse, th...
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One of the most challenging food packages is the frozen food package. Containers need to withstand the temperatures as low as -40°C when it comes to storage and transportation and then move directly to the microwave or conventional ovens without ...
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