Applied Manufacturing Technologies (AMT), North America's largest independent full-service systems integration provider supporting manufacturers, robot companies, systems integrators, line builders, and users of robotic automation worldwide, today announced a strategic partnership with autonomous mobile robot...

In the midst of COVID-19, bag-in-box packaging has become a critical part of meeting the unprecedented demand for liquid cleaners, sanitizers and detergents. The global hand sanitizer market is projected to grow USD 0.9 billion...

"Chemical Recycling" is the petrochemical industry's latest response to the recycling crisis. It is a recycling process where plastic waste is processed into fuels or back into the chemical building blocks that plastics are made...

Flint Group Packaging is delighted to announce the publication of its 2020 Sustainability Report. This version provides updates on the organisation’s sustainability performance to date. Antoine Fady, CEO of Flint Group, comments, “Since the last...

Northstar Capital, a provider of junior capital for middle market private equity transactions, is pleased to announce it has partnered with Tenex Capital Management in its recapitalization and merger of Consolidated Label and Online Labels....

Morris Packaging expanded its Plymouth, Minn. plant with the addition of two 10-color flexographic printing presses. The addition of the 59 in. PCMC fusion printing press offers numerous technologies to increase production while reducing waste...

With so much in flux, there is a clear need to help remove noise in the system and move from bad VUCA (volatility, uncertainty, complexity, and ambiguity) to good VUCA. We will identify what is...

The spread of Covid-19 had a significant impact on Bobst Group’s 2020 first half-year figures. Bobst Group recorded sales of CHF 523.8 million for the first six months of 2020, compared to CHF 736.8 million...

Eaglewood Technologies offers an intelligent, environmentally safe anilox cleaning solution for every flexographic pritner.  At a time when service technicians are not allowed in facilities, we have the solution! The Sanilox Anilox Cleaning System is an...

Siam Toppan Packaging, a subsidiary of Toppan Printing, has become the first company in the Toppan Group to win WorldStar Packaging Awards. Siam Toppan’s packages were selected for their innovative product presentation ideas employing attractive...

Packaging World first surveyed its readership about their immediate reaction to the pandemic, as relates to packaging, in late March 2020. Answers were thus collected just as COVID-19 began to impact CPGs, mainly via safety-based...

While until now newsprint and magazine paper accounted for 90% of the production of Slovenian paper mill Vipap Videm Krško, its share will fall by half within three years. As a part of the already...

The first half of 2020 has been marked by the COVID-19 outbreak. Throughout the crisis our primary focus has been to safeguard the health and safety of our employees and to maintain business continuity. We...

Plastic pollution is a pervasive and growing problem. To estimate the effectiveness of interventions to reduce plastic pollution, we modeled stocks and flows of municipal solid waste and four sources of microplastics through the global...

Davis-Standard will market its extensive line of medical tubing solutions at booth 2R201 during MedTec China, September 14-16, in Shanghai. This includes complete systems manufactured in the United States, as well as extruders designed in...

If the world embarked on an immediate and globally-coordinated effort to reduce our plastic consumption, there would still be an estimated 710 million metric tons of plastic that will pollute the environment by 2040, new...

Winpak Ltd. reports consolidated results in US dollars for the second quarter of 2020, which ended on June 28, 2020. Winpak Ltd. manufactures and distributes high-quality packaging materials and related packaging machines. The Company's...

Italian converter AMB SpA has acquired German firm PTS (Prime Tray System) Verpackungen, a manufacturer of injection-moulded cups, bags and composite plastics films. Located in Gauting, Bavaria, PTS has been responsible for sales of the...

Toppan Printing, a global leader in communication, security, packaging, décor materials, and electronics solutions, has again been recognized for excellence in environmental, social, and governance (ESG) performance with inclusion in the MSCI ESG Leaders Indexes,...

With the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, businesses worldwide remain highly concerned and invested in protecting their staff and customers from potential infection. Leveraging their many years of leadership in clean air solutions and industrial air pollution...

Paper Converting Machine Company (PCMC)—part of Barry-Wehmiller and a leading supplier of high-performance converting machinery for the tissue, nonwovens and package-printing industries worldwide—is pleased to announce that Scott Derouin has accepted the position of Regional...

EU leaders have introduced a levy on plastic waste starting January 2021 which will contribute towards the EU’s €750bn Covid-19 recovery package and its overall €1tn 2021 to 2027 budget. The levy will see non-recycled...

In 2018, McDonald’s and Starbucks teamed up to create an eco-friendly alternative to the single-use soft drink cup. Coordinated by the investment firm Closed Loop Partners with support from the design studio Ideo, it was...

In order to better serve it’s growing customer base ePac Flexible Packaging, the leader in fast time to market custom printed finished pouches and roll stock, has announced an expansion in operations to serve its...

Feliks Bezati, Global Sustainable Packaging Manager at Mars was nominated as representative of the ‘Brand Owners and Retailers’ segment of the value chain within CEFLEX and will take a seat on the CEFLEX Board and...

AccuFlex Packaging–a subsidiary of Acculink, based in Greenville, North Carolina – has become the first flexible packaging printer to receive Color-Logic certification. Commenting on the event, Color-Logic Director of Sales and Marketing Mark Geeves said:...

Just in time for Plastic Free July, earlier this month the US Department of Energy earmarked $11.6 million for a new high-impact R&D effort called the Center for Plastics Innovation. The taxpayer dollars will support...

The year 2020 is for sure a year we never will forget. It started off in a rather normal fashion but that soon changed as we started to learn the meaning of Covid-19. In BillerudKorsnäs...