In a nationwide survey on milk adulteration by Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI), 68.4 per cent of the samples lifted from 33 states did not conform to the prescribed standards. In the survey that was conducted through FSSAI's five regional offices in 2011, a total of 1,791 samples was drawn from 33 states and was tested in the government laboratories.
Lots of mothers are concerned today about the nutritional value in the food their children eat. What appears nutritious may not have the right amount of vitamins and proteins children need. It is lot less nutritious than we believe. As media coverage has uncovered, there is serious cause for concern when it comes to adulteration, contamination and nutrition loss in foods and beverages we buy. Food safety for all includes more than just the right food that is healthy and unadulterated. Gable Top secures the milk and other liquid food products - safe and adulteration free.
Packaging History
The history of the carton goes as far back as 1879 in a Brooklyn, New York, factory operated by Robert Gair. A die-ruled, cut, and scored paperboard into a single impression of a folded carton. By 1896, the National Biscuit Company was the first to use cartons to package crackers. The milk carton was original in the sense that it could be folded, glued, filled with milk, and sealed at a dairy farm. The early 1960s brought many automated systems to help with production of repeatable processes.
History of the Gable Top
The name comes from the fold at the top which looks like the Gable-end of a house. The originally wax coated Gable Top carton was invented in 1934 by American paper bottle company and was used exclusively for packaging fresh pasteurised milk.
The wax coating on the carton was replaced by a heat-sealable poly coating in1961, not only used to contain milk and other liquids but also to keep things dry. Milk is the most common product found in a Gable Top, these cartons are increasingly being used to hold fresh juice, cream, yogurt and laban / buttermilk.
Shape
Although quite often shaped like a cuboid, it is not uncommon to find cartons lacking right angles and straight edges, as in squrounds used for ice cream.
Tetrahedrons and other shapes are available. Cartons with hexagonal or octagonal cross sections are sometimes used for specialty items.
Materials
Cartons can be made from many materials: paperboard, duplex, white kraft, recycled and many more various plastics, or a composite. Some are "food grade" for direct contact with foods. Many cartons are made out of a single piece of paperboard. Depending on the need, this paperboard can be waxed or coated with polyethylene to form a moisture barrier. This may serve to contain a liquid product or keep a powder dry.
Parksons’ Packaging’s foray into Gable Top packaging solution brings you the world’s most preferred packaging for pasteurised milk and for many other dairy products that ensures your product reaches consumers without tamper and free from adulteration.
As an innovative solution provider Parksons brings ParkPak, an end-to-end solution to pack liquid and dry products in Gable Top, by partnering with NiMCO of USA for filling of the Gable Top cartons. You may market your milk and milk products at a premium price in Gable Top cartons.
Gable Top Packaging, an open system, offers several advantages including product safety and extended shelf life of up to 14 days and it is made out of liquid packaging board designed for milk and currently has to be imported from the mills in Europe and USA who have the expertise in producing this board.
Gable Top Packaging has many advantages over plastic bottle. Just to quickly summarise 1. Tamper-proof; 2. High in Branding. Large surface area to print high quality graphics; 3. Cannot be re-used. Shredded to scrap; 4. 100% recyclable, bio-degradable; 5. Most environment-friendly; 6. Keeps freshness & taste using natural fibre; 7. Opaque material, does not allow light to influence on milk; 8. Machine capable of filling 1 litre, 500 ml & 250/200 ml fill volume, changeover within 15 min; 9. Very popular for other dairy products too like butter milk, drinking yogurt, flavoured milk etc.; and 10. Cost-effective when compared to other rigid packaging.
Pouch packaging of milk offers many more advantages such as milk safety, extended shelf life of milk, brand protection, disposal, convenience and recyclable.
Building Premium Brands
There is a large number of emerging new liquid food products in Europe such as new creams, soups, creamy soups, liquid desserts and yoghurts, nutraceuticals and functional foods, new cereal beverages (Soy, rice and mixed cereal beverages), iced coffees and teas. Food engineers expect a major shift in consumption of food products towards liquid food products within the next 20 years.
Several consumer and demographic trends favour theses developments such as the emergence of the Asian population, the growing number of lactose-intolerant people, the health-conscious consumer (mostly women between 35 to 55 years old), the vegetarian, on-the-go consumption, and an ageing population. Natural taste, freshness and product quality are the key attributes for most of these products, which represent a significant business opportunity for customers. Parksons Packaging is partnering with key customers to develop new technologies and adapt existing ones for processing and filling new liquid food products.
Parksons Packaging is extending leadership to new liquid food products. New liquid food products are a technological challenge for our customers and for us. New process technologies, different temperatures, and advanced filling processes and techniques, are necessary to ensure quality and freshness of products with various pH and viscosity levels. Different tastes, different expectations, a variety of flavours and texture, exotic combinations: Parksons Packaging is committed to developing new technological abilities to meet emerging consumer needs. We will strive to develop a packaging solution that will make a difference through our Parksons Packaging total system approach.
Filling Machines
Parksons Packaging provides a full range of ultra clean and aseptic filling machines for cartons in portion packs, standard packs and family sizes. Parksons filling machines are designed to meet the highest standards of quality, hygiene, and efficiency. Parksons Machines can accommodate small, medium, or high capacity plants from 3,000 to 16,000 units per hour. Parksons ultraclean technology is based on the same principle as our aseptic machines, using low-concentration peroxide and UV-C light in carton decontamination. All important elements for the hygiene of Parksons filling machines undergo strict challenge testing in order to meet the increasing demand for safety and longer shelf-life in the market.
Logistics
Distribution Efficiency: Parksons Packaging is committed to distribution efficiency. From converting and filling, through distribution to presentation to retailers shelves, our logistic process ensures the total automation of the production life cycle of new liquid food product.
Food & Contents: Quality testing of product and packaging - Quality control is critical for new liquid food products. Customers can test their products, from processing and filling to shelf-life performance at the Parksons Packaging Technology Centre.
Design & Print: A book is judged by its cover - Parksons Packaging’s printing technology is second to none, offering both high quality UV-flexography and offset lithography. Parksons Packaging’s pre-press experts can assist customers in optimising printing and design.
Pak-Lok Closure: Screw caps that make the difference - Parksons Packaging’s closures are available in a variety of sizes, performances, styles and colours. All variations cater for different processing standards, consumer expectations, and pouring convenience for new liquid food products.
Reuse
Gable Top cartons can be a desirable material for kids (and adults) craft projects. There are a number of websites outlining how to make cool crafts from old cartons:
Cable cars and more, recycled milk carton truck, bird feeder etc.
Application
Liquid/Semi Solid: Milk, Juice, Fruit Drinks, Yogurt, Oil, Whipping Cream, Ice Cream Mix, Hot Fill Juice/Syrup and Wine.
Solid/Powder: Sugar, Snack Crackers, Candy Ready Mix, Cereal, Tea, Spices, Nuts and Laundry Detergent.
Gable Top Cartons: When you pick up a carton of milk at the store, you are picking up a Gable Top carton. The name comes from the fold at the top which looks like the Gable roof of a house. This coated paper carton is very versatile, not only used to contain milk and other liquids such as milk substitute, broth, soup and juice, but also to keep things dry. Gable Top cartons are part of a group of containers called polycoat or aseptic containers.
Key
First fully-renewable packaging
Parksons Carton Bio-based is manufactured solely from a combination of plastics derived from sugarcane and paperboard, which sources all of its feedstock from sugarcane grown on degraded pastures.
Parksons Carton Bio-based is available in a range of sizes, from 250 ml to 2,000 ml, for all chilled milk specifications.
High reliability
Our Parksons Cartons filling machines give producers years of safe, problem- free production.
This is also one of the safest packaging systems on the market. A patented folding process prevents products coming into contact with the raw edge of the paperboard and four different material combinations provide the optimum safety barriers for all kinds of chilled products.
Saving space and flexibility
Parksons Cartons Packages are made from flat-packed blanks, which are easy and economical to transport and store. Using blanks in production has the added advantage of making it easy to switch between different package volumes of the same bottom format.
Multiple formats and sizes
These iconic Gable Top packages come in lots of formats and sizes so just take your pick! Several opening devices.
NiMCO World Headquarters - NiMCO Corporation, the worldwide leading independent manufacturer of Gable Top packaging machinery operates from its modern factory. This state-of-the-art facility, located in Crystal Lake, IL, is dedicated to the assembly, testing and servicing of all NiMCO products and provides major advantages in production capacity, efficiencies and order lead-times. Recognised as a leader promoting, milk, juice, food and non-food packaging applications, NiMCO machines are in service in over 60 countries throughout the world. The NiMCO equipment will form, apply cap, sterilise and seal paperboard Gable Top carton blanks manufactured by any qualified converter.
NiMCO Installations can be found in countries around the world including Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Cyprus, Denmark, Ecuador, El Salvador, England, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hong Kong, Ireland, Italy, Jamaica, Japan, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Korea, Malaysia, Mexico, Mongolia, Morocco, Namibia, the Netherlands, Nigeria, Panama, the Philippines, Portugal, Russia, Qatar, S Africa, Saudi Arabia, Scotland, Singapore, Spain, Switzerland, Taiwan, Thailand, Turkey, Ukraine, Uruguay and throughout the United States.
NiMCO UltraClean ESL system ensures higher hygiene level to help extend the shelf-life of pasteurised milk up to 15 days under refrigeration.
Regarding 15-day shelf life (ESL) for pasteurised milk when stored at 4 Deg C, following are the requirements:
a. Hi-Hygiene components like spray sanitiser for machine components
b. HEPA air filtered filling chamber
c. Steriliser for the carton before the product gets filled.
NiMCO Corporation offers different efficient and economical machine models to fill an array of products into paperboard cartons with volumes of 4 ounce through five litre at speeds ranging from 4 up to 125 cartons per minute. Machines are available with a variety of filler options for liquid, dry, volumetric or net weight dispensing. Dual cross-section machines are offered to fill quart & half-gallon or 1 litre & 2 litre sizes as well as half-gallon & gallon or 2 litre & 5 litre combinations. Spout Applicators are available for most machines. Manufactured in USA, each machine is designed to meet the requirements of small, medium and large production facilities.
