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Market Trends and Reports

The manufacturing line: Sustainable packaging systems

PMMI’s “Pet Food Market Assessment 2013” describes a competitive market, where brands are striving to set themselves apart. By and large, however, petfood is generally in traditional formats—60% in multi-walled bags, for example.

Manufacturers should be exploring ways to standardize sustainability in their processing lines to save on cost, time and their carbon footprint.

FreeHand chooses rescue dog as face of new petfood packaging

FreeHand, a petfood company, recently awarded a Dallas, Texas, USA, rescue dog named Leslie as the winner of the "New Fuzzy Face of FreeHand" Facebook contest winner. As winner of the contest, which aimed to encourage rescue dog adoption, Leslie will also appear on the front of the petfood company's new 5-pound, super-premium dog food bags.

Petfood industry comes together at Petfood Forum and Workshop

Learn from experts from both the petfood and human food industries during Petfood Forum 2013 and Petfood Workshop: World ofIngredients. Both conferences also offer an exclusive opportunity to network with longtime industry colleagues, key suppliers, business contacts and new acquaintances from throughout the global petfood industry, all in one place.

Pet Food Ingredients

Petfood Forum 2013 exhibitors

Following are the exhibitors for Petfood Forum 2013 registered to date. Bookmark this page for regular updates.

Market Trends and Reports

Blackwood Pet Food redesigns cat food packaging

Design agency Ideas that Kick recently redesigned packaging for Blackwood Pet Food’s full line of superpremium cat foods. The new cat food packaging design highlights key nutritional information for each cat food recipe in the front and slightly off-center on each bag, making it easier for pet owners to notice on first glance.

Petfood can recycling program donates to animal shelter in Pennsylvania, USA

The Alcoa Foundation and Pennsylvania Resources Council's Cans for Pets recycling campaign has recycled more than 6,500 aluminum petfood cans during its first 10 weeks and raised money to aid homeless animals at a local shelter. The Cans for Pets campaign was launched in November 2012 as a two-year effort to raise awareness and increase the total number of aluminum petfood cans recycled each year.

Pet Food Product Database

Printpack Packaging QuadSeal bag technology

Pet Food Packaging

Former Associates LLC food forming equipment services

Pet Food Product Database

PaperWorks Industries packaging finishes

Packaging provider releases online sustainability report

PaperWorks Industries Inc., a North American packaging provider, has released its first annual public sustainability report online, titled, Sustainability: It’s A Part of our Heritage. Compiled according to the Global Reporting Initiative Guidelines, the report measures PaperWorks' economic, social and environmental performance in 2010 and 2011, as well as outlines challenges and opportunities presented by the integration of four different companies.

Pet Food Product Database

Flexicon Corp. mobile bulk bag filling system with metal detector

Pet Food Product Database

Haver Filling Systems Inc. ADAMS 12

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