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Standing Alone in a Modern Cheese Market: A How-To Packaging Guide

It’s safe to say Americans have a healthy obsession with cheese.  Our love for cheese has sliced out a significant portion of the national consumer food market – with the average customer consuming more than 40 lbs. of the stuff per year and adding to a current cheese market valuation of $34.4 billion. Fittingly, modern…

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Packaging’s New Reality: Perfecting Service, Maintenance & Training with the Power of AR

In the past, engineers would have to wait for equipment to break down before conducting repairs. No set maintenance schedules existed, and diagnostics were inconclusive. Equipment was removed for service, accumulating hours or days of costly unplanned downtime, requiring on-site assistance from available third-party techs. Today, Augmented Reality (AR) offers a better path towards efficient,…

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R&D to Packaging Reality: The New Evolution of Vision Systems & 3D Protoyping Tech

Vision systems were what could be for packaging tech developers – dreams, fantasies, far-off realities that relied on futuristic tools to give customers full control over products and processes at faster speeds. Yet packaging technology continued to evolve. Impossibilities became possible as optics hardware, software, and even complex coding language – driven by artificial intelligence…

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Brick by Brick: Building Meat Packaging’s Future on Sustainability & Savings

Tight prep times and tighter budgets are causing seismic purchasing shifts among carnivorous consumers. The recent “Power of Meat” study from the Meat Institute, Washington D.C., revealed that nearly eight out of 10 (78%) of shoppers are adjusting how much meat and poultry they buy, citing higher costs, lasting inflation, and lack of time as…