Packaging Technologies-Dairy Processors

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A-B-C Packaging Machine’s palletizer is designed for stacking cases filled with cheese for warehouse and grocery distribution.

Overnight Labels is a manufacturer of custom printed products, including shrink sleeves, labels and flexible packaging.

Companies that build machinery to produce, trim and handle packages are a valuable resource to the package designer, says Brian Dowler of Graham Engineering, York, Pa. Their experience with a broad array of packages can benefit a dairy processor.Lessons that equipment vendors learned in one application, such as the production of bottles for non-food applications, often can be applied to produce innovative options for food packages as well, he says. Container light weighting is one example.

Reiser and Ross Industries introduce the INPACK IN50 Inline Tray Sealer, their newest tray seal packaging machine. The fully automatic IN50 produces modified atmosphere packages (MAP) from preformed trays of almost any size or shape and can package fresh, refrigerated or frozen food products.

Fogg Filler, Holland, Mich., a designer and manufacturer of rotary filling systems for the liquids industry, is continually focused on improving technology that better serves its customers and the environment. Fogg’s new VSE-30 cap sorter will maximize efficiency of caps being sorted to high-speed packaging lines.

With the downturn in the economy, everyone is looking for ways to save. One major way to do this is by lowering transportation costs. To make sure you are getting charged correctly, weighing each load is more important than ever.

Schneider’s state-of-the-art aseptic brick tray packer the TP-35, offers a high-speed tray packing solution for aseptic brick boxes.

Faced with stagnant growth and competition from non-dairy beverages, processors try to boost sales with flavored milk, new retail channels and new processes.

Despite high energy costs, uncertain ingredient prices and a weak economy, processors continue to develop new ice cream and novelty products and flavors.

Through the integration of Curwood's patented 7201 series of chunk and sliced cheese horizontal flow wrap film, a reduction of 25 million cubic inches of packaging materials has been recorded