Cavanna Packaging USA entered the U.S. through a sales office in Oradell, N.J. but moved to Duluth, Georgia last November to open a plant making machines that produce wrappers for cookies, crackers, granola bars and other products. The Duluth headquarters employs 11 and has 21,000 feet including factory floor and office space, according to Barbara Headrick, accounting manager for the U.S.…

Goglio leads the pack-a history of innovation in packaging: Italian company Goglio has lived the history of coffee packaging and remains a market leader of materials and machines that have as much relevance today as they did 50 years ago. Over the years, coffee bags have evolved from simple paper structures, offering little to no protection from moisture, light and oxygen, to today's high barrier…

Located in Sebastopol, CA, tea marketer Traditional Medicinals operates 20 hr daily, four days/week to produce 2 million teabags per week. Raw materials are brought in from around the world in already tea cut form, reinspected, and repackaged into barrel containers to feed into the blenders via a hopper system. Once the formulas are blended, they are transferred to the packaging area where…

More outstanding news will be in store as IPACK-IMA announces the presence of UNIDO director-general, Kandeh K. Yumkella, at the upcoming edition of the exhibition. He accepted the organizers' invitation to hold the opening speech to the international convention titled PACKAGING TECHNOLOGIES TO ENHANCE FOOD SAFETY AND FOOD SECURITY IN AFRICAN COUNTRIES, staged with the cooperation of experts from…

The 2010 figures reported by Italian packaging machinery manufacturers show that the industry has put the crisis firmly behind its back. The sector's turnover totalled 3,759 million euro at current prices, 16,4% up on 2009, when it slumped to 3,229 million euro. Last year's turnover even surpassed that of 2007 (3,610 million euro) and was not far short from the record figure of 3,827 million euro…

Bologna might be best known abroad for its meat sauce and for being home to the oldest university in the western world, the University of Bologna. But this city, situated between Italy's Po River and the Apennine Mountains, has earned the nickname the "Packaging Valley." Packaging machinery has become one of the dominant industries throughout Italy. Though the United States, China and Japan all…