Lightweight soft packaging such as crisp packets or wrapping for chocolate bars is giving headaches to European recyclers who currently have little incentive to buy the collected material. The European Commission will seek to address...

All Printing Resources (APR) has named Mike Williams as vice president, sales. A long-time senior manager and high-performance sales leader in labels and packaging, Williams joins APR from H.S. Crocker Company. Prior to his role...

The Sustainable Green Printing Partnership (SGP), an authority in sustainable printing certifications, has announced that Bobst is now a gold patron. Bobst is driving to achieve a circular economy in flexible packaging, and its partnership...

The printing and ink world has evolved over the years, perhaps more dramatically with the rise of digital in the last two decades. Finding accurate and useful information to keep pace with the changes can...

Printpack has partnered with TIPA Compostable Packaging and tech-pioneer Digimarc Corporation on a successful proof-of-principal of new sortation technology for compostable packaging. The trio has developed the first digital watermark for compostable packaging which acts...

What is the value of compostable packaging? Why do we need it as part of a suite of solutions that improve the sustainability of packaging? Compostable packaging has value when it lets us capture and...

Post COVID, the fresh food industry can see clearly that the struggle between time and distance must be solved, as well as protecting the supplies and goods as they move through the chain, said Jeff...

Reifenhäuser is once again one of the top 50 employers in Germany this year. This is the conclusion reached by Stern magazine in cooperation with the market research institute Statista in its latest study on...

From March 1, 2022, Mitsubishi HiTec Paper will increase the prices for all specialty papers (thermoscript, jetscript, giroform, supercote, barricote) by 10% worldwide. The reason for this is the continued increase in the cost of...

ExxonMobil and SABIC announced the successful startup of Gulf Coast Growth Ventures world-scale manufacturing facility in San Patricio County, Texas. The new facility will produce materials used in packaging, agricultural film, construction materials, clothing, and...

S-One Labels & Packaging announced that three of its ReEarth films have been certified for commercial compostability by the independent labs at the Biodegradable Products Institute (BPI). Third-party certification from BPI verifies that packaging materials...

Kendall Packaging Corporation, a provider of high-quality flexible packaging solutions serving a variety of markets inside the food, personal care, and pet food industries, announced that Daren Roberts has been named Plant Manager at the...

ProAmpac, a leader in flexible packaging and material science, has partnered with Rutgers University Department of Food Science professor, Dr. Kit Yam. This partnership is being integrated with ProAmpac’s Material Science and Innovation teams to...

McClure brings more than 40 years of blown film operational excellence to Pregis. In 1997, he founded South Carolina-based ISO Poly Films, Inc., and served as the company’s chief executive officer until the company was...

DuPont introduces the new series for its Pigment Inks portfolio, DuPont™ Artistri® Brite P5500, at ISS Long Beach, CA (January 21-23, 2022). Artistri® P5500 ink is specially designed for DTG printers (direct to garment), decorators...

In a world of disposable everything, single-use plastics continue to reign supreme. Every year, Americans generate about 42 million tons of it. And yet only 9% of that gets recycled, in part because the recycling...

Flexible packaging leader PAC Worldwide announced the hire of Patrick Huesing as the global company's Senior Vice President of Sales. Mr. Huesing will report to Chief Sales Officer Beth Rettig. The 23-year industry veteran assumes...

Compostability is one of those contentious topics in the plastics packaging space. In general, consumers and companies seem to like the idea. In fact, brands and suppliers typically center their sustainable goals by pledging to...

What is the value of compostable packaging? Why do we need it as part of a suite of solutions that improve the sustainability of packaging? Compostable packaging has value when it lets us: Capture and...

Flint Group, including all business units within its Packaging and its Commercial Publication & Web divisions, has achieved a Silver status from EcoVadis, the world’s largest and most trusted provider of business sustainability ratings with...

Since setting up business in 2014, Siflex Packaging has focused on developing and improving processes related to the production of flexible packaging in Chile. To this end, it has 52 experienced employees working in a...

Flint Group, including all business units within its Packaging and its Commercial Publication & Web divisions, has achieved a Silver status from EcoVadis, the world’s largest and most trusted provider of business sustainability ratings with...

Despite persistent risks, virus variants, and supply chain challenges, the world continues its march from the global pandemic into economic recovery. Ship & Shore Environmental, Inc. (S&SE), a pioneer of clean air technologies, finished off...

Printpack, a US-based manufacturer of flexible and specialty rigid packaging, is pleased to announce a strategic partnership with Sirane, a UK-based leader in paper coating and paper-based packaging. Together, the two companies will jointly enable...

Constantia Flexibles’ EcoPressoLid, a lidding material for coffee capsules, has been awarded ‘OK Compost Industrial’ by TÜV Austria. It is the producer’s first certified compostable product and potential game-changer for coffee suppliers who focus on...

Anyone who has hosted a party (and had to clean up afterward) knows it can end up being more than a little wasteful. From the food to the decor and supplies, a lot of things...

Siegwerk, one of the leading global providers of printing inks and coatings for packaging applications, commissioned a new solvent-based Blending Center at Siegwerk’s Bhiwadi facility in India. The new Blending Center, spread across 3400 Sq.M,...

Profol Americas, a global leader in the manufacture of cast polypropylene and polyethylene films, has introduced a breathable vacuum packaging film solution, CPVac™. CPVac™ is a polypropylene-based coextruded film which is designed to maintain a...