Pork rinds are probably the most misunderstood item in the snack category. This is surprising, because people have been eating pork rinds—also called pork skins—as long as they have been eating pigs. One of the world’s first snack foods created thousands of years ago, and favored in the southern states, pork rinds are a simple combination of fried pork skins and salt.
Analysis from Frost & Sullivan indicates that changing lifestyles and consequent dependence on processed, packaged and pre-cooked foods is increasing the sales of flexible packaging. Rigid packaging is visibly giving way to flexible packaging due to the latter's lightweight, superior barrier properties and prudent use of materials.
The 2013 Packaging Conference, slated for Feb. 4-6 in Atlanta’s Ritz-Carlton, Buckhead, will focus on brand owner packaging initiatives and emerging technologies.
New vertical and horizontal form/fill/seal systems help bakers and snack producers address consumer eating trends and be more productive and profitable.
Axium Foods’ 130,000-sq.-ft, corn-based snacks operation in South Beloit, Ill., has expanded several times, thanks in part to the success of the many private-label products it packs and products it copacks. It’s also launching its own line of Mystic Harvest purple tortilla chips, which contain powerful antioxidants. Outfitted with seven highly flexible production lines, Axium produces 150 different stock-keeping units of snacks each week.
California’s Proposition 37, which would have required labeling of genetically modified foods, was soundly defeated in last Tuesday’s election. The measure trailed 53% to 47%, with nearly 90% of the vote counted at 3:30 a.m.
More than 45,000 packaging and processing professionals and nearly 2,000 exhibitors traveled to Chicago to attend this year’s largest packaging and processing tradeshow.
The baking and snack food company’s Baked Naturals Cracker Chips are the first to utilize the SealTab reclosure feature. Originally launched in a quad-seal standup bag, the cracker chips now have a new level of convenience. Available nationwide since August, the new package comes in 5.8- and 6.4-oz sizes.
Thousands of packaging and processing systems can be found at PACK EXPO International 2012, where you’ll find state-of the art solutions for the baking and snack industry, industry contacts, educational conferences, hundreds of exhibitors with dedicated solutions to meet baking and snack challenges, designated industry pavilions featuring the latest packaging innovations and lots more.
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