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...

Walmart, the world’s largest company by revenue and largest US grocery retailer, has agreed to cut its use of virgin plastic by 2025. Citing new data on the growing plastic pollution problem, As You Sow...

The sustainability movement has gained traction in recent years with more renewable materials being introduced to the market more often. State Governments are also implementing regulations around plastic packaging and single-use plastics, which begs the...

H.B. Fuller has successfully completed the Food Safety System Certification (FSSC 22000) for its plant in Lüneburg, Germany, the company’s largest in Europe and an important manufacturing facility within its global network to earn this...

Arup Basu, President, Flexible Packaging, and a member of Huhtamaki Global Executive Team has decided to leave Huhtamaki. ​The process to find Arup’s successor has been initiated. “I want to thank Arup for his contribution...

Integrated prepress software and hardware solutions leader, Esko, has partnered with global leader in retail, Boots Retail USA, a member of Walgreens Boots Alliance, to introduce a streamlined content process that increases productivity by an...

The British government has confirmed that the new plastic packaging tax (PPT) will be coming into force 1 April 2022, raising nearly a billion pounds in tax by 2025. Laid out by Chancellor Rishi Sunak...

The rise in e-commerce in 2020 forced brands to rethink their package design to connect with consumers outside the retail environment. Here are five design trends that resulted and advice on how to select the...

TC Transcontinental Packaging is thrilled to announce that it was named the Winner for Innovations in Sustainability in this year’s Flexographic Technical Association (FTA) Sustainability Excellence Award competition for its Integritite™ post-consumer recycled collation shrink...

C-P Flexible Packaging (C-P) announces the expansion of its pre-made polyethylene bag manufacturing operations with the purchase of three new state-of-the-art converting lines. This new equipment is being installed in C-P’s Buffalo, New York facility...

Cosmo Films Ltd., a global leader in speciality films for flexible packaging, labeling and lamination applications as well as synthetic paper, introduces 100% Opaque Synthetic Paper (OSP) which is specially designed for a dangler application....

Ocean Cleanup CEO Boyan Slat discusses the new and improved river plastic Interceptors and the nonprofit's plans for building and deploying more of them around the world. Nonprofit The Ocean Cleanup is continuing its mission...

Fathom Optics (formerly Lumii, Inc), a printed packaging effects software company, has been selected as one of three recipients of the prestigious 2021 FTA Technical Innovation Award. This award recognizes Fathom’s patented light field technology/software...

Danimer Scientific, a leading developer and manufacturer of biodegradable materials, announced it has received a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) grant to research pennycress oil as a potential feedstock material for producing polyhydroxyalkanoate (PHA), a...

Coveris Group continues its strategic expansion and acquires UK based flexible packaging manufacturing and trading business Four 04 Packaging, based in Norwich. Coveris identified Four04 Packaging Ltd through a permanent market screening process as an...

Thank you for the opportunity to testify in support of Maine’s LD 1471, “An Act to Establish a Stewardship Program for Packaging” and in opposition to Maine’s LD 1541, “An Act to Support and Improve...

Two bills have been submitted to create a program to improve recycling and refund municipalities, but the sides are far apart on how those goals should be achieved. Maine’s intent to create a first-in-the-nation recycling...

UP to 35 jobs are set to be axed at a food and drink packaging company in Worcester – representing 40% of the current workforce. 35 workers are expected to be made redundant at Berry...

Label Traxx MIS announces its integration with batched.io to provide label converters with a cutting-edge automated scheduling tool. Batched is an automated scheduling tool for label printers that sequences job tickets using an advanced algorithm...