Resources

The seafood industry is currently facing a confluence of three major market challenges: sustainability, product freshness, and evolving consumer expectations. To address these issues simultaneously, producers and retailers are turning to innovative packaging solutions. This recorded webinar delves into the trends and technologies shaping the future of seafood packaging, offering valuable insights for industry professionals….

Harpak-ULMA collaborated with our friends at Canadian Packaging to present this webinar – but the insights here apply to more than just Canadian operations! Watch the full recording below to see our Automation Product Manager John Weddleton, along with multiple other experts in the automation and sustainability space, break down current sustainability trends and how…

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…

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…

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…

Josh Becker, bakery and confection product manager for Harpak-ULMA Packaging, dives into how smart manufacturing technology is driving innovation in the industry with Joanie Spencer, editor-in-chief of Commercial Baking.

Learn how to prevent bottle necks in your baking line. Hear from our Bakery and Confectionary Segment Manager, Josh Becker, as he discusses automated tote and basket management systems with Commercial Baking in this informative Tech Talk!

Tight Bag Technology

Learn more about Rockwell Automation’s collaboration with Harpak-ULMA in our latest Innovation Spotlight, and see how this machine maker’s digital transformation strategy uses the IIoT and AR to expand what’s possible for both it and its end users. For packaging OEM Harpak-ULMA, the value of digital transformation is in its ability to help end-users better…

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…