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Pet Food Product Database

Munson Machinery SCC-15-SS Screen Classifying Cutter

Munson Machinery

Brand Insights

Simplify Pet Food Labeling: Strategies for Navigating Global Regulations

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Learn how regulatory complexity is impacting the pet food industry and how brands will meet the challenge using the right digital tools

Simplify Pet Food Labeling: Strategies for Navigating Global Regulations

Zuke's reveals sustainable trade show booth at SuperZoo

At SuperZoo 2012, Zuke's unveiled a line of cat treats from its new eco-friendly trade show booth #2147. Zuke's worked with Greenspace, a design and fabrication company, to develop the sustainable booth, which is made of fir plywood and cedar materials.

Zuke's booth at SuperZoo is made of fir plywood and cedar materials that reflect the company's commitment to sustainability.

Pet Food Market

Packaging: what consumers (say they) want

Consumer surveys routinely show the same wants and needs for packaging of consumer goods products: convenience, ease of opening and closing (and, increasingly, ease of resealing the package), product freshness and sustainability -- though the majority of consumers surveyed don't seem willing to pay more for eco-friendly packaging. These all hold true in a survey conducted by Packaged Facts earlier this year and reported by Marketing Daily.

Market Trends and Reports

Hill's Pet Nutrition to reformulate Science Diet petfoods

Hill’s Pet Nutrition will reformulate its Science Diet dogs and cat foods to add more natural ingredients. The company made the decision to reformulate the Science Diet petfoods because some consumers were making product choices based primarily on a set criteria for ingredients, rather than the overall promise of nutrition and clinical research.

Glenroy launches petfood packaging app for iPhone, iPad

Glenroy Inc., a converter and printer of flexible petfood packaging film, launched a flexible packaging iPhone and iPad application. The apps, available as a free download in the Apple market, allows users to quickly calculate commonly used flexible packaging specifications such as roll weight, roll footage, roll diameter, basis weight and yield.

Pet Food Regulations

Big petfood changes to come at next AAFCO meeting?

From calories on petfood labels to potential changes to proof of nutritional adequacy to carbohydrate guarantees, the Association of American Feed Control Officials’ (AAFCO) annual meeting, August 3–6 in Indianapolis, Indiana, USA, included a number of petfood-related items in various stages of review and approval.

Are your petfood labels accurate?

Petfood product names and ingredients can be key factors in a consumer’s decision to buy a particular product. For example, some pet owners may try to avoid gluten or certain protein sources in a petfood to help prevent allergic reactions in their pets; those who remember the melamine-related recalls of 2007 may still scan ingredient labels for the presence of wheat or wheat gluten.

The ingredients and claims listed on a petfood label can be key factors in a consumerâ€™s decision to buy a particular product.

Packaging update: The latest materials, products and technologies

Every year I am met with the task of sniffing out what's new and happening in petfood and treat packaging. In past years trends have included convenience, portability and sustainability.

Blue Dog Bakery recently unveiled 'fully refreshed packaging' across its product line. The new packaging gives Ruffy, the brandâ€™s blue dog mascot, a makeover and reveals a new modern look.

Pet Food Product Database

National Bulk Equipment Inc. bulk material mixing system

National Bulk Equipment Inc

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Thiele Technologies Slidell PowderPacker Pro

Barry-Wehmiller - Thiele Technologies

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ACS Valves SD Series rotary valves

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Neogen Corp. Soleris TVC test

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