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Social responsibility is not only good for business, it is everyone’s business. New international guidance for the agri-food sector has just been published. From ending hunger and obesity to protecting our natural resources, the food...

Social responsibility is not only good for business, it is everyone’s business. New international guidance for the agri-food sector has just been published. From ending hunger and obesity to protecting our natural resources, the food...

According to Eaglewood’s founding partner, Pete F. Mulheran, “I have committed myself and our company to supporting The ALS Association through volunteering and fundraising events. Our goal is funding research for a cure.” Stay tuned...

From fragmented thinking, to out of date infrastructures and poor processes, there is a long list of reasons why supply chains can become unsustainable. But, according to a luxury packaging provider, digitalized data is set...

BASF announced a single-digit million-euro investment in the capacity expansion of water-based polyurethane dispersions at its Castellbisbal site in Spain. The expansion will allow BASF to increase its production capacity by 30 percent.

In September, Chevron Phillips Chemicals International NV (Europe) became a signatory of a declaration from the Circular Plastics Alliance (CPA) that lays out commitments and bold goals for our industry regarding the uptake of recycled...

Tekni-Plex Medical, a Tekni-Plex business, will be offering a full array of compounds and tubing solutions for medical device applications at MD&M West, February 11-13, Anaheim Convention Center, Anaheim, California, Booth 3019. Tekni-Plex Medical will...

Tekni-Plex will be showing its line of 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, Anaheim, California, Booth...

CTI Industries Corporation, a leading manufacturer of custom film products, foil and latex novelty balloons, and flexible packaging products, announced the appointment of Mr. Yubao Li to its Board of Directors, effective January 13, 2020....

Bea Perez, senior vice president and chief communications, public affairs, sustainability and marketing assets officer for Coca-Cola, flew into Davos for the annual World Economic Forum to talk about how Coke would be "part of...

Sonoco, one of the most sustainable, diversified packaging companies, has been selected to FORTUNE magazine’s World’s Most Admired Companies list for 2020. For the third year in a row, the Company also was listed first...

Having upfront clarity into needs and establishing standards for what to use (and why), are the two biggest shortcomings cited by Vision 2025 participants in the Request for Proposal process. Companies who participated in Vision...

ePac Flexible Packaging, the industry leader in digital printing for flexible packaging, is pleased to announce that its Boston based manufacturing facility has received the Safe Quality Food (SQF) Program Certification. ePac Boston is the...

UK-based BOPP manufacturer Innovia Films has decided to extend the testing program across its range of films following the successful certification of Propafilm Strata earlier this year.

Tekni-Plex Medical, a Tekni-Plex business, has named Dan Lazas global head of sales. Lazas will be leading global sales for the recently-formed business unit which includes nine manufacturing locations and products under the Colorite, Natvar...

Verso Corp., which in November revealed plans to sell its Androscoggin Mill in Jay as part of a $400 million deal, said Monday that it has all the needed regulatory approvals to move forward with...

ePac is excited to announce that its Boston manufacturing location has received the Safe Quality Food (SQF) Program Certification, the first of the ePac locations to do so. The Safe Quality Food (SQF) Program Certification...

Shell says that it has successfully made “high-end” chemicals using a liquid feedstock made from plastic waste using a pyrolysis process that is considered a breakthrough for hard-to-recycle plastics. The initiative advances Shell’s ambition to...

Cities and states with big ambitions to reduce landfill waste by 2020 are falling short of their goals as the markets for recyclables are changing and the cost to process them is going up. Recycling...

The name DuPont has long been synonymous with Delaware, but the famed chemical manufacturing company has been on a rollercoaster ride of mergers, sales and spinoffs in recent years, and it is now preparing for...

CDP’s annual environmental disclosure and scoring process is widely recognized as the gold standard of corporate environmental transparency. In 2019, over 525 investors with over US$96 trillion in assets and 125 major purchasers with US$3.6...

Replacing plastic looks hard, but alternatives to fossil fuel materials are on the rise. The English metallurgist Alexander Parkes never saw the widespread realization of his spectacular 19th-century invention, celluloid, the first plastic. While a...

Malaysia is returning 42 shipping containers of illegally imported plastic waste to the UK, its environment minister has announced. Yeo Bee Yin said Malaysia would take "steps to ensure" the country "does not become the...

INX International Ink Co. announced today it has entered into an agreement to acquire RUCO Druckfarben, a longtime leading printing ink manufacturer in Eppstein, Germany. The transaction is expected to be completed by the end...

The plastic shopping bag has long been hunted by state and local policymakers pushing for its extinction. But still it thrives, thanks to the deep-pocketed chemical industry that birthed it and the political influence of...

Progressive disclosure of information about a product through on-pack labels and instructions contained within the packaging enhances the consumer’s experience one action at a time. At a potluck, everyone brings their favorite dish to the...

China is stepping up restrictions on the production, sale and use of single-use plastic products, according to the state planner, as it seeks to tackle one of the country’s biggest environmental problems. Vast amounts of...