Packaging

2025 Trend Report for the Food and Beverage Industry

2025 promises to be a transformative year for the food and beverage sector. Strengthen your business strategy and gain a lasting competitive edge with this practical guide to the industry’s most significant challenges an..

Carrefour launches Food Transition Pact at Belgian level

16 July 2021

Carrefour is launching a Food Transition Pact to bring together its national brand suppliers and seize the opportunity together to change consumer habits. More and more voices are calling for healthier and more environme...

Smart packaging results in sweeter taste

13 July 2021

For consumer acceptance, it is important that a product reduced in sugar tastes sufficiently sweet. Besides compensating the taste with sweeteners, there is another solution: through packaging features such as colour and...

Clean label: not so clean as claimed

01 July 2021

A warning to all producers who are busy making their food products 'clean label'. Food additives that have not been approved are not allowed to be sold or used in foodstuffs. The NVWA ('Dutch Food and Consumer Product Sa...

Universities take part in 'Well Packaged' project

28 June 2021

Companies make all kinds of considerations when choosing how to package their food product in a sustainable way. Over the next 2 years this choice process will be studied by HAS University together with The Hague Univers...

Repak has it all figured out...

14 June 2021

Repak has been supplying thermoforming machines for over 35 years, both close to home and far away. There are now more than 1,000 machines in the US. To continue this trend and to be able to respond to customer-specific ...

Trade fairs can count on visitors

10 June 2021

Trade fair organiser Easyfairs is ready for the next edition of Empack Den Bosch 2021, which will take place on 8 and 9 September. "We are ready and eagerly looking forward to a new season and our visitors share this fee...

Wanted: 10 innovative solutions for packaging

08 June 2021

Ten leading companies are looking for packaging solutions in the KVK-KIDV Business Challenge Innovative Packaging. The issues are diverse: they range from a wrinkling and tearing proof paper wrapper for chocolate to a su...

Slicing and packaging without intermediate film

08 June 2021

With the innovative spray system: Sustainable Liquid Interleaving, MULTIVAC introduces a sustainable solution for the packaging of thinly sliced or highly adhesive products. The conventional interleaving of film between ...

27% of the plastic packages are well-recyclable

26 May 2021

The share of well-recyclable plastic packages has hardly increased over the past 7 years. A meticulous study into the designs of plastic packages currently present on the Dutch market has revealed that 27% is well recycl...

Consumers' Association wants rules for 'natural' and 'pure' on food labels

25 May 2021

Clear rules are needed for the use of the terms 'natural' and 'pure' on food labels, according to the Consumers' Association. The organisation advocates guidelines to combat deception and lack of clarity. Just like in Fr...

Rent or buy original MULTIVAC refurbished machines

25 May 2021

MULTIVAC offers fresh produce producers a choice of not only brand new packaging or processing machines. MULTIVAC also reconditions used machines with original spare parts and thus meets the needs of customers who want a...

New packaging line Vleems

10 May 2021

Fast snacks from the microwave are popular, if we consider the growth of Vleems Convenience Snacks. A new packaging machine is in the making. It will allow larger quantities of the convenience products to be packaged in ...

Flowpack for meat contributes to sustainability

10 May 2021

Packaging fresh meat in a flow pack instead of a dish fits in well with the sustainability targets the Dutch meat industry wants to achieve: 30% energy savings in 2030 compared to 2010. Central Butcher ProMessa ...

Pioneering labelling for pizzas

28 April 2021

Automatic labelling, high-quality appearance and a large information area with an unobstructed view of the product: MULTIVAC's full wrap labelling solution for pizzas and other flat foods fulfils the requirements in ever...

Process optimisation with Repak

12 April 2021

There is a trend among producers of fresh potatoes and fries in the Benelux towards process optimisation: higher capacity with fewer people. Repak's thermoformers offer a solution that is tailored to the needs of the ind...