Inline Plastics, a leading manufacturer of innovative and high-quality PET food packaging, has opened a new manufacturing plant in Gladwin, MI, at the former Cam Packaging facility. The official announcement was made last week at the company’s corporate headquarters in Shelton, CT. The Michigan facility is already up and running under its new Inline banner.

MULTIVAC is launching its W 500 as a universal flowpacking solution, which offers a high level of flexibility for packing a wide range of food products. The new flowpacker, which is designed for a wide spectrum of applications and products, supports the use of sustainable films and paper-based materials. Many types of fruit and vegetables can be packaged securely in pillow packs with very efficient material usage.

PEAKfreshUSA reaffirmed its continuing commitment to environmental stewardship with a new product available by request that enhances landfill biodegradation. “Consumer demand increases every year for sustainability,” said Greg Ganzerla, president and CEO of Lake Forest, CA-based PEAKfreshUSA. The new product will add another innovative offering to PEAKfresh’s catalog of packaging.

Accu-Label Inc., a world leader in eco-friendly fruit-labelling technology, is in the final stages of certifying its COMPOST-it brand compostable labels. This highly innovative line features proprietary labels that are made with compostable materials certified under TUV OK COMPOST HOME. Accu-Label has always offered eco-friendly labels made with sustainably sourced paper that is FDA-compliant and adheres to the Forest Stewardship Council’s certifications, food safe materials.

StePac Ltd.’s lean, automated modified atmosphere packaging (MAP) solutions gained rave reviews among Chilean cherry packers and exporters especially during the recent China cherry export season ahead of the recent Chinese New Year celebrations.

The packaging formats have proven instrumental in helping the packers make the transition from manual to faster and more efficient automatized processes to counter the recent labor shortage hurdles.

Fox Solutions, a manufacturer and distributor of state-of-the-art, custom packing equipment, announces the partnership with its first flow-wrap machine manufacturer, Redpack. In addition to bringing current customers new packaging solutions, this partnership will enable Fox to serve new industries that utilize flow-wrap on many items.