The candy business has changed a lot over the last few years. It's no longer just about producing more candy. Manufacturers today are dealing with shorter delivery times, more packaging styles, labor shortages, and growing pressure from retailers for better shelf presentation. At the same time, candy products themselves are becoming more challenging to pack. [...]
If you work in blueberries long enough, you see the same question come up over and over again: With all the new packaging ideas on the market, why are fresh blueberries still mostly packed in clamshells? It is a fair question. Buyers are hearing more about pouches, paper-based formats, sealed trays, and sustainability-driven packaging changes. [...]
Peak harvest is when a berry operation really finds out where the weak spots are. When the fruit is coming off the field fast, the goal is simple: get it packed, get it cooled, and get it shipped while the berries still look good. But in a lot of operations, the field is not what [...]
Smart Weigh is pleased to announce its participation in interpack 2026, one of the world’s most important trade fairs for processing and packaging technology. The exhibition will take place in Düsseldorf, Germany, from May 7 to May 13, 2026, where Smart Weigh will welcome visitors at Hall 14, Booth 14B15. As global food manufacturers continue [...]
In today's highly competitive snack market, speed, consistency, and cost control are no longer optional—they are essential. Whether you’re packaging potato chips, nuts, popcorn, or trail mix, the right packing machine directly impacts your production efficiency, product quality, and profitability. For U.S. snack manufacturers facing rising labor costs and increasing demand, investing in the right [...]
Today, packaging is considered to be one of the most important factors of product marketing and branding. A well-designed and well-manufactured package is one of the primary reasons why a consumer buys your product. Therefore, packing of products is becoming a very critical task, as a food retails manufacture or contract companies, how to choose [...]
Single position packaging machine ,also call premade bag packing machine ,pouch packing machine,mainly for premade bag,flat pouch,zipper bag,four-side seal pouch ,suitable for food and non food industry such as liquid products(sauce/milk/soup/cream/juice),granule products(rice sugar salt nut bean shrimp),powder products(milk powder/coffee powder/coco powder/detergent powder/spice flour).Non food products such as plastic particles,toy,nail,wood log etc . Semi auto packing machine is equip with [...]
If you're packaging delicate spice powders, you need a vertical auger powder filler machine to pack into bag.These type of condiment packing machine designed to pack product automatically in big capacity and hard to pack by labor . Vertical form fill seal flavors packaging machiney packing all kinds of powder products such as coffee powder,milk powder,spice powder,washing powder,wheat powder,dye powder,coco powder,rice powder [...]
We alll know that Smart Weigh multihead weigher can weight product via weight, do you know whether it can count pcs? The answer is YES! Smart Weigh multihead weigher can weight and count. Today our topic is explaining the counting principle of multihead weigher. Multihead weigher counts how many pcs are there in each weighing hopper first, then [...]
Ready meal cooked food ready to go tray industry seems to be a manual type because of the characteristic of the products it pack:sticky,soft,oily,multi ingredients make it hard to realize fully aromatically . Smartweigh installed an automatic ready meal packing line for Czech customer who is a healthy ready meal company for restaurant ,supermarket,army etc. We offer a packing solution [...]
