Following its reduction of 5.2 million pounds of product packaging in 2008, Hormel Foods Corp. (HRL) announced the results of several new packaging projects. The company said that the new packaging reduction highlights and projected savings includeThe elimination of extra room in the Jennie-O Turkey Store burgers carton is expected to have an annual paperboard savings of more than 175,000 pounds. Lloyd's barbeque tubs no longer have an extra paper sleeve. This modification will eliminate enough solid waste to fill 22 garbage trucks and save more than 660,000 pounds of paper fiber annually.
Reducing the thickness of the glass used to produce each jar of Hormel bacon bits will produce annual material savings around 411,000 pounds. Reconfiguration of the shipping box for Hormel Compleats microwave meals removed 23 percent of the material required to make the previous corrugated packaging box and generated an annual materials savings of 1.2 million pounds. In addition, changes to the size of the carton flaps of the product and reallocation of materials resulted in annual savings of more than 980 million pounds of solid waste.
Hormel party trays packaging was redesigned to eliminate the need for shrink wrap to produce an annual savings of approximately 100,000 pounds. The corrugated case to ship the product will be smaller, resulting in a corrugated material savings of more than 174,000 pounds per year.
Reducing the height, width and length of each box used to ship Hormel pepperoni, increased the amount of product on each pallet, saving materials and reducing the number of trailers needed each year. The anticipated savings is 188,000 pounds of wood fiber annually and 49,000 pounds of corrugated.
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