New equipment, materials and innovative products designed for cold foods packaging.

Harpak-ULMA Packaging, Taunton, Mass., joined forces with Rockwell Automation’s PartnerNetwork program as an OEM machine builder to help facilitate the development of smart, connected packaging solutions.

A bespoke multilayer pot from RPC Bebo Bouxwiller, France, is helping to deliver quality of product and presentation for a new range of sheep’s milk specialties from Le Petit Basque, a cheese processor based in France.

UK-based KM Packaging Services relaunched its range of Superguard Oven films with new features and benefits for food manufacturers.

As flexible packaging becomes thinner and thinner to improve sustainability scores, the challenge becomes greater and more difficult to consistently apply legible “date codes.” Thankfully, new technologies in materials and machinery have advanced the use of reduced substrates in most flexible packaging applications.

Fabri-Kal Corp., Kalamazoo, Mich., announced the development of a new manufacturing facility in Burley, Idaho.

Multivac, Kansas City, Mo., introduced the new MULTIVAC R 575 MF PRO thermoforming packaging machine that can produce high-quality skin packs with heights of up to 90 mm.