Longevity seems not to carry the cachet it once did. What’s new, what’s hot, and what-have-you-done-for-me-lately attitudes often carry undue influence over decision-making.
Looking at the current big picture of barrier films packaging in the meat industry, it would not be a complete exaggeration just to shrug your shoulders and think not a lot is changing.
The landscape of food packaging is continuously observed, analyzed and discussed from countless angles — materials, formats, platforms, hot technologies, cost, environmental impact, and the list goes on.
National Provisioner asks Chip Bolton, principal at J.H. Bolton Communications LLC, to detail the latest challenges and trends in the realm of form/fill/seal technology for this month’s Packaging Technology story.