Food Processing - September 2007 - (Page 58)

GREEN PACK AGING was the material’s home compostability that clinched the deal. “It was one of the things that separated this product from others,” says Daniel Chirico, vice president-business development with Four Seasons. To communicate the packaging’s ecoattributes to consumers, Four Seasons places a sticker on the film overwrap that reads: “Earthcycle Packaging! Renewable Resource – Backyard-Compostable.” Fresh meat, soon will have access to palm fiber trays, as well. Earthcycle is in the prototype stage with meat trays and hopes to launch them commercially in the fourth quarter of this year. STAINLESS STEEL BELTS* Designed For Today’s Food Processing Needs. Blast from the past The renewable resource with the most history as a building block for packaging materials – namely, wood – is finding new life in both paperboard and film applications. The new generation of films includes a biodegradable, home-compostable cellulose film created from wood pulp sourced from managed plantations. Called NatureFlex film, this product of Atlanta-based Innovia Films Inc. (www. innoviafilms.com), can be used as an overwrap, formed into heat-sealed bags and stand-up pouches, metallized, or laminated Complete Conveyor Systems Not only are the tomatoes organic, so is the packaging. Four Seasons Produce replaced foam trays with ones from Earthcycle Packaging. Made from palm fiber, they are biodegradable and home-compostable (less than 90 days in a backyard composter). Freezing Baking SPECIAL FEATURES • Teflon® Coated • Perforated • V-Belt Tracked • Smooth Surface • • • • VERSATILE Sanitary Durable Heat Transfer Casting, Frying Please visit us at Pack Expo Booth #S-6829 www.BeltTechnologies.com 11 Bowles Road, Agawam, MA 01001 • Tel.: 413-786-9922 • Fax: 413-789-2786 800-732-2358 *Available in Stainless or Carbon Steel Belts which meet FDA and USDA requirements. Teflon is a registered trademark of DuPont. ISO 9001 Registered 58 • FOOD PROCESSING SEPTEMBER 2007 to paper. In addition, it’s suitable for heating in the microwave or conventional oven. “The core of this product line has been around for over 70 years. It’s cellophane,” says Malcolm Cohn, Innovia’s market manager-Americas. “Cellophane has always been manufactured from a sustainable resource, but now it’s reinventing itself.” Environmentally conscious food processors and retailers are lapping up the reinvented material. In the U.K., retailers Morrisons, Tesco and Marks & Spencer are using NatureFlex film as an overwrap on fresh produce. In the U.S., Wild Oats Markets, Safeway, Wal-Mart and Thrifty Foods are using it for the same application. Askinosie Chocolate (www.askinosie. com), Springfield, Mo., selected NatureFlex for the inner packaging of its premium, small-batch chocolate bars. The company, which emphasizes social responsibility, appreciates the environmentally friendly character of the film as well as its aesthetics and functional properties. The film heat-seals well and resists greases, oils and fats. In addition, it is glossy and WWW.FOODPROCESSING.COM http://www.innoviafilms.com http://www.innoviafilms.com http://www.askinosie.com http://www.BeltTechnologies.com http://www.askinosie.com http://www.foodprocessing.com

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Food Processing - September 2007

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