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Flexible Packaging Presents Challenges for Automated Case Packing
02.03.2020

Flexible packaging is used as primary packaging in a wide range of sectors, like the beverage, food, home and personal care industries. Due to the opportunities it provides –from a marketing, profitability and logistics perspective...

Dow to Build Alberta Ethylene Plant Expansion for More than US$200M
01.31.2020

U.S. chemical producer Dow Inc. has approved an expansion of its Alberta petrochemical facilities expected to cost between US$200 million and US$225 million. While releasing its fourth-quarter results this week, CEO Jim Fitterling announced the...

Tekni-Plex Features Thermoformable Films, High-Performance Flexible Structures for Medical Applications at MD&M West
01.31.2020

Tekni-Plex will be showing its line of medical device films, high-performance coated Tyvek® and coated paper rollstock and lidding material, as well as adhesive and extrusion laminations, at MD&M West, February 11-13, Anaheim Convention Center,...

The Drive Toward Sustainability in Packaging—Beyond the Quick Wins
01.31.2020

Sustainability—particularly regulatory and public concerns around single-use packaging waste—is combining with other powerful trends to drive major changes in consumer packaging. Regulators are moving on the issue, and Fast-Moving Consumer Goods (FMCG) companies and retailers...

Flexible Packaging Tools Incorporated into Label Traxx MIS
01.30.2020

Label Traxx, the management software (MIS) specialist for the label converting industry, has announced that new features in Version 8.2 are tailored toward flexible packaging manufacturers. Version 8.2 of the software includes dedicated flexible packaging...

No Single Technology Likely To Dominate Plastic Recycling
01.30.2020

The economics of plastic waste recycling are rapidly changing, pointing to a future where both incumbent and advanced technologies will be used, but decisive advantages for certain technologies will emerge in particular regions depending on...

Berry Global and Georgia-Pacific Team Up to Facilitate the Collection and Repurpose of Post-Consumer Materials
01.30.2020

Berry Global Group, Inc. announced its formal agreement with Georgia-Pacific Recycling to collaborate in creating a closed loop system to recover, segregate, and reprocess post-consumer resin (PCR). The two companies share a long working history,...

Reliance Industries Ltd. Lays Out Road with Plastic Waste
01.30.2020

A 40-km pilot project of road network made with 50 tonnes of plastic waste has taken shape within Reliance Industries Ltd.’s (RIL) Nagothane township. Under its sustainability initiative, plastics used by RIL in the construction...

Calling all Packaging Designers and Manufacturers: Entries Now Open for the 2020 Packaging Innovation Awards by Dow
01.30.2020

Dow (NYSE:DOW) is launching its call for entries for the 2020 Packaging Innovation Awards. Submissions for the international awards program will be accepted from January 30 through April 10 on the Packaging Innovation Awards website....

T&L Graphic Systems Chooses the KODAK FLEXCEL NX System from Miraclon for Major Pressroom Savings and Advances Its Business
01.30.2020

T&L (Tape & Label) Graphic Systems Inc has invested in a KODAK FLEXCEL NX System from Miraclon, and within three months are seeing the wide range of benefits it delivers. The investment has not only...

Stora Enso Oyj Financial Statement Release 2019
01.30.2020

Subdued and mixed trading conditions caused by geopolitical uncertainties are expected to continue to impact Stora Enso in 2020. The decline in demand for European paper will persist, and demand for other Group products is...

FPA Announces FlexPack Voice™ Magazine
01.30.2020

The Flexible Packaging Association (FPA) is pleased to announce that the inaugural edition of FPA’s new magazine, FlexPack Voice™, will be released in May 2020. FPA is partnering with the YGS Group for the development...

Mondi Receives Green Certification
01.30.2020

Mondi, German sustainable packaging and paper specialist has received recyclability certification from Institute cyclos-HTP for its BarrierPack Recyclable all-polyethylene film. BarrierPack is a lightweight mono-material offering more sustainable packaging option for diverse applications ranging from...

Successor to Cello-Pack Leases Cheektowaga Warehouse
01.29.2020

A flexible packaging manufacturer that owns the former Cello-Pack operations in Cheektowaga is relocating a large warehouse operation to a former retail plaza-turned-business park that is close to its main facility. ProAmpac, based in Cincinnati,...

2020 Could Be the Year of Legislative Boom – or Bust – for National Recycling Policy
01.29.2020

Fueled by international policy decisions, growing pressure on already-strained municipal budgets, and subsequent media coverage, recycling has inspired serious scrutiny and concern in recent years. While prominent members of the industry have pushed back against...

Berry Elaborates on Its Chemically Recycled Plastic
01.29.2020

Berry Global’s use of chemically recycled LLDPE in demonstration pouches is only the beginning of the company’s embrace of post-consumer plastic recycled via pyrolysis. “We look forward to expanding our usage of chemically recycled resin...

pacprocess MEA Delivers a Convincing Debut
01.28.2020

The first pacprocess Middle East Africa, which took place at the Egypt International Exhibition Center in Cairo from 9 to 11 December 2019, was impressive from the start. This interpack alliance trade fair was organised...

Maxcess and RotoMetrics Merge, Creating the Most Comprehensive End-To-End Global Web Handling Solutions Provider in the Industry
01.28.2020

Two industry-leading companies will merge under the Maxcess name. Maxcess, the global leader in innovative products and services for web handling applications, has announced its intent to merge with RotoMetrics, the global leader in the...

Graphic Packaging Intl. Buys Quad/Graphics Omaha (NE) Packaging Plant; Proceeds To Reduce Quad Debt
01.28.2020

Quad/Graphics, Inc., has agreed to sell its Omaha (NE) packaging plant for $40 million to Graphic Packaging International, a leading provider of packaging solutions to food, beverage, foodservice, and other consumer products companies. The transaction...

MPs Call on Government to Create Circular Economy Through Compostables
01.28.2020

Cross-party MPs and Peers in the U.K. have called on the Government to include ambitious targets for compostables in the forthcoming Environment Bill. In the letter published in the Guardian, they backed a move away...

Delving Into The Drivers of Flexible Packaging's Growth
01.27.2020

Tom Egan, PMMI vice president of industry services, examines the status of this growing packaging segment and the factors that are influencing its advancement.

MacDermid Graphics Solutions Expands Its Patented Clean Plate Technology Portfolio with Digital MCP
01.27.2020

MacDermid Graphics Solutions, a leader in the manufacturing and marketing of photopolymer printing plates, recently expanded its Patented Clean Plate Technology portfolio with the addition of Digital MCP. Digital MCP is a hard durometer, round...

Benches Made From Plastic River Waste Mark a UK First for Plaswood
01.27.2020

Plaswood, a brand of Berry Global, has manufactured and delivered the UK’s first picnic bench made from plastic recovered from a riverbed. The accomplishment forms part of a partnership project between West Cumbria Rivers Trust...

Legacy Flexo Invests in Second Fusion C Press from PCMC
01.27.2020

Paper Converting Machine Company (PCMC), part of Barry-Wehmiller, has announced the sale of a second Fusion C printing press to Legacy Flexo Corp. in Green Bay.

Sensory Analytics Promotes Robert Greiner
01.27.2020

Sensory Analytics has promoted Robert (Bobby) Greiner to industry manager for films and flexible packaging to focus on SpecMetrix, coating thickness and film layer measurement systems. Greiner most previously served as the technical sales manager...

Using Plastic Waste To Build Schools In The Ivory Coast
01.26.2020

Plastic waste is a little like electric cars. 10 years ago, we heard very little about either one. Today, there are news stories about both every day of the week. The world is drowning in...

Compostable Packaging Infrastructure Can Solve the Plastic Packaging Issue
01.24.2020

Daphna Nissenbaum, CEO and Co-founder of compostable packaging producer TIPA, calls for a significant investment in facilities capable of dealing with compostable packaging to address the problems posed by plastic packaging.

Changes in Huhtamaki’s Global Executive Team
01.24.2020

Arup Basu, (52), PhD (Technology), has been appointed President, Flexible Packaging and a member of Global Executive Team as of February 1, 2020. Arup Basu has been the Managing Director for Huhtamaki's Flexible Packaging business...

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