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Austin, Texas-based packaging manufacturer ePac Flexible Packaging will invest $6.5 million to establish a manufacturing facility in Henrico County, creating 35 jobs, Gov. Ralph Northam announced Monday. ePac Flexible Packaging was founded in 2016 and...
Sonoco, one of the most sustainable diversified global packaging companies, announced its Board of Directors has unanimously elected R. Howard Coker, the Company’s current senior vice president of its Paper/Industrial Converted Products segment, as its...
Flexible packaging is used as primary packaging in a wide range of sectors, like the beverage, food, home and personal care industries. Due to the opportunities it provides –from a marketing, profitability and logistics perspective...
U.S. chemical producer Dow Inc. has approved an expansion of its Alberta petrochemical facilities expected to cost between US$200 million and US$225 million. While releasing its fourth-quarter results this week, CEO Jim Fitterling announced the...
Tekni-Plex will be showing its line of medical device films, 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,...
Sustainability—particularly regulatory and public concerns around single-use packaging waste—is combining with other powerful trends to drive major changes in consumer packaging. Regulators are moving on the issue, and Fast-Moving Consumer Goods (FMCG) companies and retailers...
Label Traxx, the management software (MIS) specialist for the label converting industry, has announced that new features in Version 8.2 are tailored toward flexible packaging manufacturers. Version 8.2 of the software includes dedicated flexible packaging...
The economics of plastic waste recycling are rapidly changing, pointing to a future where both incumbent and advanced technologies will be used, but decisive advantages for certain technologies will emerge in particular regions depending on...
Berry Global Group, Inc. announced its formal agreement with Georgia-Pacific Recycling to collaborate in creating a closed loop system to recover, segregate, and reprocess post-consumer resin (PCR). The two companies share a long working history,...
A 40-km pilot project of road network made with 50 tonnes of plastic waste has taken shape within Reliance Industries Ltd.’s (RIL) Nagothane township. Under its sustainability initiative, plastics used by RIL in the construction...
Dow (NYSE:DOW) is launching its call for entries for the 2020 Packaging Innovation Awards. Submissions for the international awards program will be accepted from January 30 through April 10 on the Packaging Innovation Awards website....
T&L (Tape & Label) Graphic Systems Inc has invested in a KODAK FLEXCEL NX System from Miraclon, and within three months are seeing the wide range of benefits it delivers. The investment has not only...
While some other states are passing laws and finding eco-friendly alternatives to reduce plastic waste, South Dakota is moving in the opposite direction. On Tuesday, the South Dakota Senate Commerce and Energy Committee approved a...
Subdued and mixed trading conditions caused by geopolitical uncertainties are expected to continue to impact Stora Enso in 2020. The decline in demand for European paper will persist, and demand for other Group products is...
The Flexible Packaging Association (FPA) is pleased to announce that the inaugural edition of FPA’s new magazine, FlexPack Voice™, will be released in May 2020. FPA is partnering with the YGS Group for the development...
Mondi, German sustainable packaging and paper specialist has received recyclability certification from Institute cyclos-HTP for its BarrierPack Recyclable all-polyethylene film. BarrierPack is a lightweight mono-material offering more sustainable packaging option for diverse applications ranging from...
A flexible packaging manufacturer that owns the former Cello-Pack operations in Cheektowaga is relocating a large warehouse operation to a former retail plaza-turned-business park that is close to its main facility. ProAmpac, based in Cincinnati,...
Fueled by international policy decisions, growing pressure on already-strained municipal budgets, and subsequent media coverage, recycling has inspired serious scrutiny and concern in recent years. While prominent members of the industry have pushed back against...
Berry Global’s use of chemically recycled LLDPE in demonstration pouches is only the beginning of the company’s embrace of post-consumer plastic recycled via pyrolysis. “We look forward to expanding our usage of chemically recycled resin...
The first pacprocess Middle East Africa, which took place at the Egypt International Exhibition Center in Cairo from 9 to 11 December 2019, was impressive from the start. This interpack alliance trade fair was organised...
Two industry-leading companies will merge under the Maxcess name. Maxcess, the global leader in innovative products and services for web handling applications, has announced its intent to merge with RotoMetrics, the global leader in the...
Quad/Graphics, Inc., has agreed to sell its Omaha (NE) packaging plant for $40 million to Graphic Packaging International, a leading provider of packaging solutions to food, beverage, foodservice, and other consumer products companies. The transaction...
Cross-party MPs and Peers in the U.K. have called on the Government to include ambitious targets for compostables in the forthcoming Environment Bill. In the letter published in the Guardian, they backed a move away...
Tom Egan, PMMI vice president of industry services, examines the status of this growing packaging segment and the factors that are influencing its advancement.
MacDermid Graphics Solutions, a leader in the manufacturing and marketing of photopolymer printing plates, recently expanded its Patented Clean Plate Technology portfolio with the addition of Digital MCP. Digital MCP is a hard durometer, round...
Plaswood, a brand of Berry Global, has manufactured and delivered the UK’s first picnic bench made from plastic recovered from a riverbed. The accomplishment forms part of a partnership project between West Cumbria Rivers Trust...
Paper Converting Machine Company (PCMC), part of Barry-Wehmiller, has announced the sale of a second Fusion C printing press to Legacy Flexo Corp. in Green Bay.
Sensory Analytics has promoted Robert (Bobby) Greiner to industry manager for films and flexible packaging to focus on SpecMetrix, coating thickness and film layer measurement systems. Greiner most previously served as the technical sales manager...