The newsprint market is on the decline and with the spread of Covid-19, the market environment has become even more challenging. Kruger has therefore decided to take downtime at the Brompton paper mill. Canadian forestry...

Stora Enso has appointed David Ekberg as EVP, Head of Packaging Solutions division and member of the Group Leadership Team as of 1 April 2020. David Ekberg has held the role of acting Head of...

In January, U.S. plastic bag manufacturers and recyclers signed a sustainability commitment for the industry and renamed its coalition the American Recyclable Plastic Bag Alliance (ARPBA). The agreement by ARPBA members includes a target that...

Sustainability has become the mantra of the packaging world. No matter which way you look, companies are developing new products and processes that will reduce packaging’s impact on the environment. Nowhere is this movement more...

Dow is extending the 2020 Packaging Innovation Awards entry deadline to July 17 due to the global impact of COVID-19. Submissions can still be made on the Packaging Innovation Awards website. “Under the unprecedented circumstances...

Greif, Inc., a global leader and industrial packaging solutions provider, announced that it has completed its previously announced divestiture of the Consumer Packaging Group (“CPG”) business for $85 million in cash to Graphic Packaging Holding...

ER-WE-PA GmbH, Davis-Standard’s German subsidiary, recently installed a custom five-roller calender unit for a global adhesive tape manufacturer. Designed to customer specifications at our recently ISO-9001-2015 certified ER-WE-PA facility in Erkrath, this machine features a...

Smithers latest market report, “The Future of Retail-Ready Packaging to 2024,” forecasts that the global retail-ready packaging (RRP) market value will increase from $60 billion in 2019 to over $77 billion by 2024, with a...

Huhtamaki has completed the acquisition of full ownership of its joint venture company Laminor S.A. in Brazil. Laminor is specialized in high-quality tube laminates, particularly for oral care applications, and was set up in 2002...

When you throw away a plastic container, how do you decide whether to toss it in the trash or into a recycling bin? If you find the choice puzzling, you’re not alone. A 2014 poll...

Bobst has become a member of CEFLEX (Circular Economy for Flexible Packaging), the collaborative initiative of a European consortium of companies and associations representing the entire value chain of flexible packaging. The CEFLEX mission is...

For decades, Americans have been sorting their trash believing that most plastic could be recycled. But the truth is, the vast majority of all plastic produced can't be or won't be recycled. In 40 years,...

Berry Global Group, Inc. has advanced its investment in an additional specialty meltblown asset to produce high-efficiency filtration media serving the EMEIA markets. Current projections are for commercial production to start in the June quarter...

The packaging business community is dealing with the unprecedented coronavirus (COVID-19) situation with both urgency and a deep sense of care. With many people working from home, Bobst is providing an in-depth look at the...

When Amcor ANZ was tasked with the print for a potato chip rebrand, pre-press manager Gary McQuiggan had to deliver an extreme spread of colors without compromising any particular product in the range – or...

LyondellBasell, one of the largest plastics, chemicals and refining companies in the world, has informed the engineering and construction contractors it will slow construction of its world-scale propylene oxide (PO) and tertiary butyl alcohol (TBA)...

Saudi Arabia’s Advanced Petrochemical Company has signed an agreement with South Korean company SK Gas for constructing and operating propane dehydrogenation (PDH) and polypropylene (PP) plants in Jubail Industrial City, Saudi Arabia. The plant will...

Durst, manufacturer of advanced digital printing and production technologies, has solved waste and digital capacity issues for family business Wagner Prestige Labels with the installation of a Tau 330 RSC E inkjet label production press....

Airlite Plastics Company has expanded production capabilities at its plant in Nazareth, Pennsylvania with a semi-custom Davis-Standard sheet line. The new line, installed in 2019, supports Airlite’s thin-gauge sheet production for products of various thicknesses...

The COVID-19 pandemic continues to have an unprecedented impact around the world and needed medical, health and hygiene products are in short supply. After assessing the Company’s capability to manufacture hand sanitizer at its facilities...

Eaglewood Technologies continues to offer our customers the same great cleaning solutions they have come to love over the past 26 years. You can now have a Sanilox System delivered to your facility for...

ProAmpac, a leader in flexible packaging, joined with Ag Unlimited and JUSTIN’S® to celebrate the receipt of two 2020 Flexible Packaging Achievement Awards showcasing innovation and advances that have changed flexible packaging.

When Kevin Kelly woke up March 11, he glanced at his phone, saw a stock market in free fall and gently shook his head. “Overreaction,” he thought. “I was a skeptic. The idea of a...

The American Chemistry Council’s Plastics Division has announced a set of principles for mass balance certification standards that are designed to trace and help increase plastics recycling as well as support markets for the outputs...

Reducing waste in the fruit industry and taking care of the environment has been a central goal of the industry worldwide, and Chile's new biodegradable plastic has been developed to further those efforts. The innovation...

The European Organization for Packaging and the Environment (EUROPEN) called on the European Commission on March 20, to recognize packaging as an essential component in maintaining the uninterrupted flow of product groups that the Commission...

At the CPA Annual Meeting, FPA President Alison Keane shares how the organization is working to help shape legislation around plastic packaging, rather than just react to it. There is a global war on plastics...

Meijer is asking customers to temporarily refrain from shopping with reusable bags in the stores. Officials said the change is part of the retailer's ongoing effort to make sure employees can do their jobs in...