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One Upping the Popular Stand-up Pouch

If there’s one thing to be said about stand-up pouches (also known by its trademarked name DOYpack bags), they are all the rage today! And with good reason. This packaging is very competitive on several fronts: Lower production, transportation, and inventory costs versus rigid packaging Environmentally friendly (depending on materials) Highly functional – it accommodates…

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The Ease and Convenience of Cook-in Poultry Packaging

People are busier than ever trying to carve out time for family, career, sports, and leisure. Making meals at home has gone from a marathon to a sprint, with less time to shop, cook, eat, and clean up. But consumers aren’t cutting corners when it comes to expectations. Modern shoppers, especially GenZ and Millennials, expect…

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The Future is Tortilla Packaging Automation

The dawning of the New Year doesn’t mean an end to last years’ challenges for tortilla producers. They face the same storm of issues from the lack of continuity in the supply chain to the limited supply of raw materials and the growing fear of the Coronavirus’ new variant spreading to human employees in plants…

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Successfully Scaling Tortilla Production: A How-To Guide

Manual labor is still a part of modern tortilla production. Packagers at all production levels employ human operators to fulfill most stacking, filling, and closing operations using soft, wicketed polyethylene bags and semi-automated equipment. Many cite the historically lower up-front costs of a labor-centric system and inexpensive materials over packaging robots, system automation, and improved…

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It’s Time for Change In Mass-Produced Poultry Packaging

Consumers say sustainability, not Styrofoam, should be poultry packaging’s new status quo Packaging for mass-produced poultry has not seen significant change in over 30 years. For more than three decades, many of the top producers in the nation have relied on overwrapped polystyrene foam trays to preserve food and transport goods to market. These non-recyclable…

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Healthy Tortillas: A How-to Guide for Production and Packaging

Consumers are endlessly hunting for healthier tortillas in today’s marketplace. As freshness, nutrition, and a shorter ingredients list become “must-haves” with Gen Z and Millennials, the drive to know what is in the tortillas is taking center stage. This focused buyer behavior also has producers reimagining the ways their tortillas are processed, packaged, and marketed…

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How should you justify investments in packaging automation?

Building a business case for implementing automation on your packaging line is no easy task. The project is a large investment, and like any other business investment, it needs to be justified. In many cases, this justification includes a strong financial return on investment. While that’s important to calculate, the increasingly strategic nature of automation…

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3 Key Questions to Ask Yourself When Considering Automation

You’ve heard of all the amazing benefits of automation and now you’re considering implementing it on your line, but how do you know your operation is ready to make that investment? And further, how do you know you are automating the right processes? There is no universal answer to both of those questions. Your goals and requirements for an automation…