Imagine if you could buy fresh produce that didn't come swaddled in disposable plastic packaging. Instead, it came covered in a thin gauzy layer of something that could be rinsed off under the tap, ...

Plastic food wraps might not be a bane to the environment for much longer. Rutgers University and Harvard University researchers have developed a plant-based coating that would be greener and safer ...

Plastic wraps and containers may be great at preserving food, but they generate huge amounts of waste that can end up in the environment. Researchers at Harvard and Rutgers have developed a new ...

Packaging is essential for preserving and distributing many kinds of foods, but it often incorporates plastic—scraps of which already litter too much of the planet, posing a threat to wildlife and ...

Coatings are developed to protect materials against corrosion and wear in chemical and physical interaction in its environment. Corrosion and wear issues still occur at large scale in diverse ...

Recent advances in equipment design and operation in spraying, drying, and mixing can improve the tablet-coating process. High efficiency in unit operations is a prequisite for achieving overall ...

Industry experts share insights on the advances in tablet coating technologies and the potential of continuous coating in solid-dosage manufacturing. Tablets are coated for several reasons, such as to ...