Given my familial and cultural connections, I was thrilled to having been invited by Tomasz Kotas to see this family-run company’s manufacturing operations in Poland.

"What surprised me when I came in was that we needed to be even more customer focused. We have always been very brand and consumer focused and the biggest change we are making is further driving customer centricity throughout our business," Tracey Massey says.

PACK EXPO Las Vegas 2015 is colocated with Pharma EXPO 2015, a joint venture from PMMI and the International Society for Pharmaceutical Engineering (ISPE) at the Las Vegas Convention Center in Las Vegas, Sept. 28-30.

The stripe laminated twist wrap can also be used for single twist "sachet" applications, where the aluminum strip is offset to one side of the wrapper.

There’s a reason, actually several reasons, why Multifilm is known as the "twist-wrap guys."

Mention the word Haas to anyone familiar with the baking, snack or confectionery industries, and the word wafer automatically comes to mind.

Originally developed in Japan, sponge-batter, centerfilled cakes attract children and adults alike with their innovative shapes and delicious fruit, chocolate or vanilla fillings.

When Amanda Henke was pregnant, she was craving caramels like crazy and wanted to make them at home using natural ingredients. After many attempts to make caramels in her own kitchen, she was introduced to Annie B’s.

This is too important a project for our industry to let it go unfinished.

Perhaps you’re not into snack, energy or functional bars. After all, we’re supposed to be focused on all things confectionery. But in case you hadn’t noticed, the term “confectionery” now encompasses a greater band width than ever before.