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As is evident from the title of their paper, Poon and Elias found that most of the 483 Canadian bento box gazers, regardless of age, "preferred asymmetrical bentos where the majority of the food was plated on the left side of the box". Citing earlier research by others, Poon and Elias say: "Japanese chefs traditionally plate their bentos with the most desirable or expensive food item in the upper left compartment, while the standard rice component is typically located in the bottom right section." Lisa Poon and Lorin Elias at the University of Saskatchewan presented 483 Canadians with a photo of a bento box and another of its mirror image. [Extracted from the article]

The article focuses on the launch of NY-Clear 6I/6T series, a transparent amorphous high-temperature nylon copolymer by Nylon Corp. of America (NYCOA) at NPE2024, catering to packaging and precision molded applications, particularly for flexible food packaging and coated beverage paperboard stock.

The article focuses on Sway, a developer of bio-based materials for packaging, announcing its receipt of a Small Business Innovation and Research (SBIR) grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF).

The article reports that SABIC, a chemical manufacturing Company is collaborating with Kraft Heinz, Berry Global, and Tesco and aimed to increase the recycling of flexible food plastic packaging.