Article: Dairy selects printers for sour cream bags and buckets: a new thermal-transfer overprinter combines with a vertical pouch machine at Farmdale Creamery, Inc. to help the dairy deal with rising resin prices for its sour cream packaging. In addition, new ink-jet printers provide more flexibility for coding containers and cases.(bag, bucket coding)

In recent years, plastic's use in food packaging has far outpaced that of its can, paperboard carton and glass counterparts. Last year, The Freedonia Group (www.freedoniagroup.com), an industrial market research firm in Cleveland, reported that plastic pouches and bags made up 39 percent of the $17.7 billion food-container market, while rigid plastic containers comprised 15 percent. In contrast, only 23 percent of food packaging was made of paperboard, 18 percent of metal and 5 percent of glass. Among the advantages plastic packaging can offer are enhanced barrier properties, resealability, flexibility, a lighter weight and high-impact graphics, among others.

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