Glenroy® Inc., a leading sustainable flexible packaging company, and Walex Products Company, a global leader in the commercial and consumer odor control markets, have announced the availability of its industry-first recyclable stand-up pouch for the...

AWT Labels & Packaging’s Board of Directors today announced Bruce Hanson will be joining the company as CEO effective immediately. During his 25-year career, Bruce has held numerous strategic leadership roles at RR Donnelley,...

The use of plastic substrates has been fundamental to the growth of packaging and will continue to play a vital role, despite its negative reputation. It all began when my parents gave me a chemistry...

Thank you for the opportunity to comment on Colorado’s draft recommendations and key principles of producer responsibility (hereinafter referred to as “CO draft PR recommendations” or the “recommendations.” I am Alison Keane, President and CEO...

During its Q2 earnings call earlier this month, Berry Global announced that its revenue grew by 13% year on year. It was the sixth consecutive quarter that Berry Global, one of the world’s largest plastic...

Twenty companies are responsible for producing more than half of all the single-use plastic waste in the world, fuelling the climate crisis and creating an environmental catastrophe, new research reveals. Among the global businesses responsible...

ePac Flexible Packaging, the innovative frontrunner in digitally printed flexible packaging, is pleased to announce the launch of Certified Child Resistant (CR) Resealable pouches made with Post Consumer Recycled (PCR) materials. A collaboration between ePac,...

Scientists have developed a method of converting waste plastics to ingredients for jet fuel in less than an hour, to help tackle the plastic waste crisis. The researchers, from Washington State University (WSU), developed a...

The upcoming edition of PACK PRINT INTERNATIONAL will now be moved to 9-12 February 2022 at BITEC, Bangkok. The move to next year from the original September 2021 date, will allow for optimum participation for...

The Pet Sustainability Coalition (PSC), a US-based group with members that include more than 200 global companies throughout the pet industry supply chain, recently saw initial success with its Flex Forward pilot and is now...

ALDI customers in Shipley are among the first in Yorkshire to be able to deposit their hard-to-recycle ‘soft’ plastics at its stores as part of the supermarket’s first trial of its collection points for these...

Lindsay Goldberg, a leading private investment firm that focuses on partnering with families, founders and management teams, announced that it has agreed to sell 80% of Schur Flexibles Group to B&C Group. Lindsay Goldberg will...

Amazon shareholders will vote on a matter relating to the company’s use of packaging materials at this year’s annual meeting on May 26. Shareholder advocacy firm As You Sow submitted a proposal requesting shareholders vote...

At last month’s (virtual) Plastics Recycling Conference, I participated on a panel that discussed public policies that could enable more plastics recycling. After last year’s (non-virtual) conference, I wrote that plastic makers were focused...

Plastic and nature are two juxtaposing factors and the biggest concern for environmentalists today. We often find plastic being portrayed as the center of environmental destruction, yet it continues to be used widely. Why? Because...

Graphic Packaging Holding Company, a leading vertically-integrated provider of sustainable fiber-based consumer packaging solutions, and CVC Capital Partners Fund VI announced a definitive agreement under which Graphic Packaging will acquire AR Packaging Group AB, Europe’s...

Listen to the unPACKed with Packaging World podcast for Matt Reynold's take on the seismic shifts in packaging caused by COVID-19 and societal call for social responsibility. On this episode of UnPACKed with Packaging World,...

AMP Robotics was recently honored as a finalist in Fast Company’s 2021 World-Changing Ideas Awards. The company’s groundbreaking innovation is an artificial intelligence (AI) platform— a robot— designed to more efficiently sort plastic packaging at...

Some 28 metric tons of plastic waste, the equivalent of 2.8 million plastic water bottles filling up 73 basketball courts, was recycled into useful eco-products by Ayala Land Inc. (ALI) last year as part of...

Label printers can better serve high-performance label markets with digital print technology designed to enhance the mechanical, water, chemical, and thermal durability of digitally printed labels on HP Indigo label presses. Michelman recently expanded its...

A new environmental and technological analysis suggests that a revolutionary eco-friendly plastic is almost ready to hit the shelves. Plastics are a part of nearly every product we use on a daily basis. The average...

New guidance issued by Wrap will help to transform the number of plastic bags and wrapping able to be recycled at supermarkets, the organisation has claimed. The guidance is aimed at providing more consistent collections...

IPN, a leading global supplier of flexible packaging solutions, announced that they have made commercially available a range of Amazon ISTA-6, SIOC-certified bag-in-box packaging for liquid products. Scholle IPN partnered with Georgia-Pacific's corrugated packaging solutions...

As a family-owned business spanning three generations and 60 years, Poly Vinyl Co. of Sheboygan Falls, Wisc., thrives in the custom extrusion segment. Instrumental to their success is Davis-Standard extrusion technology and ongoing aftermarket collaboration...

Davis-Standard is pleased to announce an upcoming free webinar entitled “Increasing Productivity and Profitability with Superior Web Handling,” on June 10, 2021, at 10 a.m. U.S. EDT. During this 45-minute webinar, Duane Smith will discuss...

At a digital event on Wednesday May 19, we will get to know who wins the British and American PIDA. Packaging Impact Design Award is an international design competition that engages hundreds of students every...

It’s now as easy to wear a plastic water bottle as to drink out of one. Whether in the form of a swimsuit from Target, a puffer jacket from Madewell or leggings from Girlfriend Collective,...

Mitsubishi HiTec Paper is forced to raise the prices for its coated specialty papers again. The reason for this is the recently continued rise in prices for energy and raw materials. The price adjustments of...