Milk was first delivered in glass bottles on January 11, 1878. What an amazing convenience that must have been in the days when home refrigeration as we know it was not an option. Both the delivery service and the convenient packaging made life easier, while creating new business opportunities for cattle farmers and glassmakers.
Today I learned that aseptic milk cartons (invented by Tetra-Pak), which are shelf-stable and do not require refrigeration, have long ago overtaken the old-fashioned glass bottle and, as Web Packaging describes it: "As a result, the aseptic carton, which predominates in Europe and Asia, has also made the refrigerated carton an afterthought in most of the world." The importance of this aseptic milk carton cannot be understated, as it allows people in developing countries to have easy, safe, convenient sustenance in the form of milk that keeps for months without refrigeration. We've mentioned here before that packaging can solve the world's hunger problem - this is clearly a step in the right direction.
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Packaging - Improvements in Aseptic Cartons
Posted by Elaine Spitz on Jan 31, 2012 8:31:00 AM
Today I learned that aseptic milk cartons (invented by Tetra-Pak), which are shelf-stable and do not require refrigeration, have long ago overtaken the old-fashioned glass bottle and, as Web Packaging describes it: "As a result, the aseptic carton, which predominates in Europe and Asia, has also made the refrigerated carton an afterthought in most of the world." The importance of this aseptic milk carton cannot be understated, as it allows people in developing countries to have easy, safe, convenient sustenance in the form of milk that keeps for months without refrigeration. We've mentioned here before that packaging can solve the world's hunger problem - this is clearly a step in the right direction.
Topics: Intercept Technology packaging, innovation in packaging, cost of goods reduction, world hunger
Packaging Industry Can Reduce World Hunger
Posted by Elaine Spitz on Jun 3, 2011 5:34:00 AM
"The food packaging industry can make a valuable contribution to reducing the wastage of food. Appropriate packaging strategies help to protect food along the value chain and to make food available to more people. Packaging preserves food, protects it from physical damage and temperature influences and makes it transportable.” At the recent Interpack 2011 trade event in Dusseldorf, Germany Christian Traumann, president of the event and chief financial officer of Multivac, acknowledged the issue of food waste as one of the most pressing problems we face worldwide.
Topics: good packaging matters, packaging industry, world hunger, how to reduce waste