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Kustom Group Breaks Ground on New GMP Facility

Kustom Group has put an emphasis on its food packaging, and last month, broke ground of its new separate building for manufacturing Nestle compliant products as well as products which must be produced with Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP). The facility is expected to be operational in mid-2014.

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By: DAVID SAVASTANO

Contributing Editor, Coatings World and Ink World

Food packaging is a critical field. If a problem occurs, such as a chemical migrating into the food, the public understandably gets worried, and the brand owner faces all sorts of legal issues and recalls.   There have been a variety of issues in recent years. Perhaps most notoriously, Nestle had to recall millions of liters of baby milk after isopropyl thioxanthone, or ITX, from the offset-printed packaging was found in the milk.   Needless to say, Nestle didn’t relish the cost or the publicity...

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