Packaging awards news from the US... Kraft Food’s YES Pack has won top honours in the country’s Flexible Packaging Association's 2013 Flexible Packaging Achievement Awards. [Click to enlarge]

PepsiCo has redesigned its 20-oz Pepsi bottle (591ml) for the first time in 17 years and which will begin rolling out across America in April. [Click to enlarge]

Very stylish item of innovation for the wine industry... out of California comes The Vini, offering fine wines by the glass and sleekly packaged in a glass tube as a 187ml serving, equivalent to 1/4 of a regular-size bottle of wine. At 25cm tall and 5cm wide, this container offers a very gracious pour in a unique package. [Click pic to enlarge]

SGS recently presented Hulamin Containers with ISO 22000:2005 and PAS 223:2011 certificates, the latter being the first one to be issued by SGS South Africa. The aluminium foil food packaging company is one of some 70 clients who have obtained ISO 22000:2005 certification from SGS.