In October, Oishi, a producer of green tea and other ready-to-drink products in Thailand, launched its first green tea bag-in-box solution. Up to this point Oishi had only offered its teas in PET bottles, but...

The trade fairs interplastica, International Trade Fair for Plastics and Rubber, and upakovka, No. 1 Trade Fair in Russia for Processing and Packaging, scheduled for 26-29 January 2021 at the AO Expocentre exhibition centre in...

Harpak-ULMA, an industry-leading packaging solutions provider, announced it is working with multiple medical device manufacturers commissioned to supply high volume syringe supplies as part of BARDA’s rapidly expanding COVID-19 Medical Countermeasure Portfolio. The US Government’s...

Tekni-Plex Medical, a Tekni-Plex business unit and a global supplier of mission-critical, high-value components, materials, and solutions to medical device manufacturers, will be participating at this year’s Engineering Week event, November 30 to December 4,...

Siegwerk will lend its expertise in circular solutions for packaging to this important initiative. Siegwerk, a leading global provider of printing inks for packaging applications and labels, is one of the newest members of the...

With the pandemic upending holiday trends, DS Smith released a new survey that shows retailers and supply chains need to be prepared for a rush of online shopping and high consumer demand for effective packaging....

Packaging a labelling giant Bobst has signed a 34,000 s/f headquarters lease in New Jersey. The New Jersey office of Avison Young brokered the long-term, 11-year, 33,910 s/ft lease for the first floor of 10...

Polyethylene terephthalate, also known as PET, is one of the most common plastics in the world, used to make soda bottles and food containers, among others. Now, the world’s largest producer of PET has announced...

Because different polymers have different qualities, multiple types will often be layered together in products such as food packaging. And while such multilayer plastics are currently non-recyclable, a new technique may change that. Known as...

Bioservo Technologies AB has signed a distribution agreement with Alpha Quantix for selling Ironhand® in USA. The agreement increases the geographical reach and opens up new industrial segments in the Western United States. Alpha Quantix...

LyondellBasell, one of the largest plastics, chemicals and refining companies in the world, announced that it has declared a dividend of $1.05 per share, to be paid December 7, 2020 to shareholders of record November...

Today, SuperGraphics, a Seattle based large format print company, announces the addition of a the Durst P5 350 to their industry-leading press line-up. The Durst P5 350 press is a hybrid large format UV LED...

Eight months after the coronavirus plunged our nation into a largely remote reality, we have witnessed an accelerated shift to a digital world. As our modes of working, shopping, eating, living, transacting and communicating have...

Tekni-Plex has invested approximately $2 million in a new narrow web, flexographic press to meet printed lidding demands for larger-sized medical devices. The press is located at the company’s Ashland, Massachusetts, facility and is due...

America's recycling rate was "well below" 10% in 1970 at the inception of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), EPA Administrator Andrew Wheeler told attendees of the third annual America Recycles Summit. The establishment of the...

ANALYTICA, a behavioral sciences-based company in Edinburgh, as launched the first service that optimizes packaging using consumer psychology and neuroscience-led customer tests. CogniPackaging provides a concrete solution to a classical issue faced by marketers: Consumers...

Britain has thrown its weight behind a new global agreement to tackle the plastic pollution crisis, which Lord Goldsmith said would go “far beyond” existing international agreements. This week, the Guardian revealed there is growing...

Endangered marine mammals and sea turtles are becoming increasingly threatened by the amount of plastic pollution flowing into U.S. waters, a new report finds. The report released by Oceana, the world’s largest ocean conservation organization,...

Accu-Label, a family owned label manufacturer based in Fort Wayne, IN, is preparing for further growth with the addition of the Durst Tau RSCi inkjet label printer. The Tau RSCi is the latest offering from...

Chris Qualters has joined Tekni-Plex as president of the Tekni-Plex Medical business unit, a global supplier of mission-critical, high-value components, materials, and solutions to medical device manufacturers. Qualters will be responsible for market development, commercial...

Packaging leader Smurfit Kappa has joined forces with KHS, one of the world’s leading manufacturers of filling and packaging systems for the beverage and liquid food industries, to roll out its sustainable TopClip multipack product...

WINPAK continues to make great strides by reducing the environmental impacts of the products we manufacture. All our efforts to improve the protection to what is most valuable, the products our packages safeguard, while reducing...

NOVA Chemicals Corporation, a leading producer of chemicals and plastic resins, and Pregis, a major supplier of protective packaging solutions, are teaming up to support the Uzima Clean Water Mission (Uzima). The Atlanta-based charity manufactures...

Closed Loop Partners’ Center for the Circular Economy has released its U.S. and Canada Recycling Infrastructure and Plastic Waste Map, a new tool that is part of the New York City-based company’s broader Advancing Circular...

Siegwerk Chief Executive Officer Herbert Forker (63) has announced his retirement effective March 31, 2021. He has held the position for more than 21 years. He will be succeeded by Dr. Nicolas Wiedmann (47), who...

Rondo-Pak headquartered in Camden, NJ with additional manufacturing in San Juan, Puerto Rico and part of the international Körber Pharma Group, is seeing increased productivity after the September installation of a new Koenig & Bauer-Iberica...

India is home to at least 20 of the world’s 30 most polluted cities, with more than 40% of its population regularly breathing air containing five times the pollution deemed safe for humans. As in...

Davis-Standard GmbH is pleased to announce that SIFEM Cable will serve as Davis-Standard’s sales agent in France. SIFEM has more than 40 years of experience in industrial projects and extrusion applications encompassing film, sheet, pipe...