Packaging

When Kermit the Frog first sang “Bein’ Green” in the 1970s on Sesame Street, none of us thought that it would become a powerful statement about environmental consciousness in the new millennium. Yet in the past decade, thinking green has taken root and blossomed. It has gone from niche to nearly mainstream, and that shift raises substantial, complex issues for ...

Generation Y—or simply Gen Y or “millennials” —is an interesting bunch. I should know. If a driver’s license counts, I’m technically a card-carrying member. A walking paradox, Gen Yers—the folks born from 1979 to 1994, just following Generation X—are notorious for having their cake and eating it, too, and then asking for seconds. They want flavor, quality and ambiance, yet ...

In recent, years, a handful of formerly fringe concerns have progressively carved a larger niche in America’s public consciousness. Natural foods are no longer purely the realm of crunchy granola, wheat germ and spirulina. Organics have grown from local, earthy farmers’ cooperative groups to the realities of big business. And sustainability—whether applied to the environment or business—is no longer a ...

Advances in kettle cooking technology have allowed food companies to improve culinary integrity of foods while increasing throughput. Advances such as computerization, improved agitation, high-pressure steam and automated lids have resulted not only in increased productivity, convenience and better energy efficiency, but also in improved product quality.Innovations are driven by market demands, with new research ultimately dictated by customers, notes ...