Batch Organics has been brought to life through a new name, logo, color palette, brand typography, visual identity and tone of voice. Ragged Edge has ensured it stands out in a noisy category with the no nonsense brand proposition ‘Straight Up’.

Tetra Pak has launched the Tetra Fino Aseptic 100 Ultra MiM, a new package that offers customers an opportunity to produce liquid dairy and juice drinks using their existing production processes, and market them as ice creams and frozen products.

Plastics, paper and other packaging materials bring many benefits to the food supply chain, including sterility and prolonged shelf life. However, there is the potential for transfer of chemicals from the packaging to the food, which is why FDA regulations surrounding food contact materials exist. Understanding this legislation is key to creating effective, safe and legally compliant packaging.

Duravant, a global engineered equipment manufacturer serving the food processing, packaging and material handling sectors, has acquired Ohlson Packaging, a weighing, counting and filling machine manufacturer. 

Stand-up pouches(SUPs) is now one of the fastest growing flexible packaging formats with global demand expected to pass 90 billion units in 2017, according to a report from AMI. The favorable development of the total supply chain cost of stand-up pouches and their stronger proposition to promote sustainability compared with rigid packaging alternatives will continue to be the key drivers of demand. 

PMI Cartoning announces a new wash down horizontal cartoner for frozen food products. This wash down system is designed and built to FDA sanitary requirements and features IP67-compliant construction and heavy-duty stainless steel solid bar construction. Sanitary design is carried through to the stainless-steel machine guard doors.  

Every day, consumers around the world are faced with the choice of picking out a product among hundreds along the shelf. Maybe they go for the same familiar brand they always choose, but maybe they decide to try something new. Unappealing packaging and labeling design may deter a consumer from choosing a product. If this happens often enough, it could cause a significant decrease in sales for any company. 

Chobani launches a new look on its packaging, featuring a less-bright white with watercolor paintings of fruits rather than photographs; the words "Greek yogurt" will appear smaller as the company aims to move beyond yogurt. 

The market for dairy and dairy alternative beverages will reach a projected $28 billion by 2021, according to market research firm Packaged Facts in the new report, Dairy and Dairy Alternative Beverage Trends in the U.S., 4th Edition. Spurring the segment's growth will be plant-based dairy alternatives, which are expected to come to represent 40% of the combined total of dairy and dairy alternative beverages.