Over 25 fast food eateries in Mumbai, India, have tested and accepted an innovative packing for dispensing hot fast food items hygienically, effectively and economically. This special food-grade bag for dispensing fast foods, including coffee, tea, curries and soups was developed by Trend Plast PouchPack, a leading innovative packaging solution provider based in India. This paper bag is waterproof and oil proof, and ideal to be used for hot snacks and drinks with limited shelf life. Customers can hold the bags despite the heat of food packed inside. The bags are available in different sizes, with printing options. They are 50 microns thick, recyclable and do not cause any clogging of drainage.

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Bosch, world’s largest supplier of packaging technology, has designed a new range of packaging and processing solutions designed specifically for handling delicate products such as tray-baked goods, biscuits and chocolate confectionery. One such machine is the LDM Monopacker particularly meant for packing products such as biscuits into trays. The company has also developed a range of vertical form-fill-and-seal machines that can bag smaller bakery and confectionery products into packaging at speeds of up to 120 bags per minute. The SVE 2510 QR and the SVE 1800 MR sort biscuits and snacks into a variety of packaging formats such as stand up pouches, pillow bags or block-bottomed bags.

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The first of its kind, clear PET multilayer plastic jar with a wide-mouth finish and barrier properties suitable for hot-packed food products such as pasta sauces, salsas, fruits, and other popular hot-fill products has been developed by Graham Packaging Company, the United States. These products were previously available only in glass because of the need to prevent oxygen ingress. The new container also works well in protecting dry-packed or cold-processed products that are oxygen-sensitive. The container is claimed to extend shelf life of certain products up to 18 months.

The package combines two proprietary technologies: SurShotTM multilayer technology and jar blow-moulding technology, both employed in the packaging industry for more than 10 years. The containers can be designed in all common configurations and specialty shapes, with wide-mouth finishes up to 82 mm. The PET jars can be hot-filled in a temperature range of 90-95ºC.

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Paragon Flexibles, the United Kingdom, has introduced a new flexible film lid called i-lid, designed to reduce the need for packaging materials and ensure food freshness. The lid can be heat-sealed onto a range of tray types and is suitable for ambient, chilled or frozen applications. In addition, the i-lid can be coated with specific barrier properties or perforated to deliver optimum pack conditions for a variety of food products.

The company says that the i-lid will reduce the amount of packaging needed to seal products such as fresh fruit salads and will make them longer lasting and less likely to be thrown out. This is done in two ways. First, by printing directly onto the i-lid so that the need for additional carton wrappers is reduced. The lid can be flexo-printed in up to 8 colours. Second, through measuring food respiration rates so that package permeability can be determined to help ensure optimal shelf life and product quality. The company has developed the Respirocomp software to speed up respiration rate determination. Customers can benefit from a database programmed with pack, atmosphere and product variables, which determine a perforation configuration without extensive trialling.

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Together with its subsidiary companies Behn + Bates and Feige Filling, the multinational Haver Technology Group presents a growing versatility in filling systems for almost every application. “The Adams” and “The Benjamin” are filling systems for packing powder-type products into air-tight PE bags made from a tubular film roll. The advantages of these form-fill-seal systems include more product protection, greater transport stability and longer shelf lives. Compact sizes and high flexibility are the distinguishing features of these machines. Depending on the production outputs and the level of compaction required for the fine-powder products, The Benjamin may be equipped with 1 to 4 filling modules, and The Adams with 8 or 10 spouts. “The Cyrus” is the latest offering in this line, for powder-type, loose materials with particle sizes ranging from 20 to 300 and for coarse products with dust content. It is designed for bag sizes ranging form 6 dm3 to 50 dm3 and weights between 5 kg and 50 kg.

Compactness, user friendliness and reliability are the features that characterize the Haver-Integra system for valve bags. This fully automatic compact system includes an automatic bag applicator, a filling system, valve sealing unit, control unit, operator’s terminal and a discharge belt, all inside a dust-free housing. This system uses the Plug+ Pack concept and fills bulk materials with speeds of up to 700 bags/hour with 1, 2 or 3 filling spouts.

Haver subsidiary Behn+Bates is offering two new products. One is the Orbis open-bag system, which is an extended development of the Topline system introduced in 2005. This new rotating filling system for open pre-manufactured bags assures an efficient and hygienic product filling and a high machine speed of up to 600 bags/hour. It is ideal for packing flour, baking powders, or powdered sugar or milk. It can work with all conventional types of bags made of paper, PE, woven PP or material combinations, and may be equipped with 3, 4 or 5 separate filling spouts.

The technical expertise of Feige Filling, another subsidiary of Haver, is in filling liquid and pasty products. Such filling can be done using the fully automatic Model 34 Plug+Fill system for buckets and canisters. The system uses a patented product flow control system, which in combination with the product pump reduces filling times to a minimum. Feige is also presenting the Model 33 drum filling machine, with an automatic shutting station, for filling steel and plastic drums.

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