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Article: Juiced-up pouch filling: Faribault Foods has three fillers, each of which runs 250 standup pouches of juice drinks/min.(pouch packaging)
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- Packaging Digest
- Article date:
- April 1, 2008
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This is the second part of the Faribault Foods story. Part one, which ran last month, covered a first-of-its-kind cartoner that packs 10 standup pouches in a unique paperboard wrap-around carton.
Advanced Nutritionals Corp. started in 1992 as a manufacturer of sport drinks. In 2001, the company changed its name to SoftPac Industries, Inc., and built a $12-million plant in Elk River, MN to produce juice drinks in standup pouches to compete with Kraft's Capri Sun 10-percent juice products. The plant was bought by contract-packing giant Faribault Foods in 2005, and with three high-speed fillers running 300 pouches/min each, it is the ...
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