Tuesday, October 30, 2012

Food Packaging Issue: Sustainability


As the world ages, people are becoming more and more concerned with the status of our environment. As you can see, there are various groups that work together in promoting go green movements. Now, this concern is visible in the food industry especially in food packaging. Plastics as one of the most common packaging material used, consumers are very particular about it. Food manufacturers are faced with the dilemma of the types of materials to use that does not bring any damage to the environment. Poultry and pork packaging machines must also use materials that are sustainable.

Indeed, sustainability has been an issue in food packaging especially with pork and poultry packaging machines. Then the continuous innovations are also in question because there are some designs that are not earth friendly. If this is the case, what will then happen? It will definitely create a conflict and might halt innovative solutions to the food packaging industry that could further address other issues aside from sustainability. The best way that it could be handled is to incorporate the innovative solutions for automated packaging machines with sustainability.  

Currently, the solid innovative solutions that’s visible in most poultry packaging machines are digital user controls, higher productivity rate, low cost maintenance, flexibility and multifunctional to name a few. These innovations are also visible in most automated automated packaging machines. The factor of sustainability is being pursued in designing environment friendly materials like the new films used for packaging. Another factor that can be used to improve sustainability is the labeling. For most pork packaging machines that also perform labeling, it is essential to put a label to inform consumers that the packaging material used is made of renewable resources. In this way, the supplier becomes transparent and trustworthy.

Also, competition must not be taken for granted by food manufacturers when it comes to sustainability. Bear this in mind; never take too long in developing sustainable strategies to be used in automated packaging machines because you are not the only one in the food industry that’s making the same thing too. There are various competitors out there that might be doing the same thing just like with the manufacturers of poultry packaging machines. So it’s a matter of getting the idea as soon as possible and launching it. 

Therefore we can say that sustainability issues should not be isolated and it should go together in designing innovative strategies for both manufacturers and consumers to benefit the developments in automated packaging machines and packaging materials.




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