Scholle IPN will invest $31.1 million and add 75 new jobs in Smyth County, Gov. Glenn Youngkin announced Wednesday. Scholle IPN will expand by 73,000 square feet to accommodate new manufacturing lines for film extrusion...

Tetra Pak is teaming up with organisations across countries such as France, US, Sweden and Italy, among others, to explore different innovations across the food system. These includes a range of development programmes – from...

Channeled Resources Group (CRG), a manufacturer of blank shipping labels, release liners, and a supplier of laminated papers and films, has purchased a SAM North America silicone coater for its plant in Marathon City, Wisconsin....

Konica Minolta Business Solutions U.S.A., Inc. (Konica Minolta), a leader in industrial and commercial printing and packaging solutions, announced its participation in the Amplify print finishing and embellishment show in Minneapolis, Minnesota, June 14-16. Embellishment...

LLFlex, one of the world’s leading suppliers of specialized packaging materials and industrial laminates, has named Thomas Bowden Chief Executive Officer and Tamra Koshewa Chief Financial Officer effective immediately. Both executives have extensive experience in...

Five sequential steps will help sustainably minded food companies, converters, and others do a more professional and effective job of packaging development. In the last six months, I’ve worked with two consumer packaged goods (CPG)...

Toyo-Morton Ltd., Japan’s leading manufacturer of laminating adhesives and a member of the Toyo Ink Group, has developed the ECOAD™ EA-B3860/EA-B1290, a high-solids solvent-based adhesive for use in the dry lamination of multilayered films in...

Like so many of its global CPG peers, Mars, Incorporated has been working for years toward greater sustainability in its packaging materials, resolving to make 100% of its packaging reusable, recyclable, or compostable by 2025....

Due to continued increases in costs, particularly in the areas of pulp, chemicals and freight, Mitsubishi HiTec Paper is increasing prices for all speciality papers. Effective for deliveries from 1 July 2022, prices for the...

Konica Minolta Business Solutions U.S.A., Inc. (Konica Minolta), a leader in industrial and commercial printing and packaging solutions, today announced a new label press, the AccurioLabel 400. As the company accelerates its presence in the...

A BOBST NOVA SX 550 solventless laminator with inline SEI laser cutting system and a BOBST MASTER D 1000 multi-technology laminator are providing the very latest technology for production of high-performance flexible packaging, including new...

UFlex, India’s largest multinational in flexible packaging materials and solutions and a global leader in polymer sciences unveiled its range of value-added, sustainable products and solutions that are set to rewrite the packaging story for...

SEE announced Henry R. Keizer as Chair of its Board of Directors. Henry succeeds Jerry R. Whitaker, who will continue as a Board member. Henry spent more than 35 years in various leadership positions at...

HP Inc. and its subsidiaries announced fiscal 2022 second quarter net revenue of $16.5 billion, up 3.9% (up 4.9% in constant currency) from the prior-year period. “We delivered a solid quarter of revenue and non-GAAP...

Packaging materials and solution company Uflex Ltd on Saturday reported a 32.32 percent growth in its consolidated net profit to Rs 350.59 crore for the fourth quarter ended on March 31, 2022. The company had...

New research with UK consumers by Aquapak, a speciality polymers business that develops materials intended to enable a circular economy, reveals that more than half (52%) would be prepared to pay more for environmentally friendly...

Bureau Veritas Consumer Products Services (Bureau Veritas), leaders in testing, inspection/audit, advisory and certification services, has contracted with international recycling leader, TerraCycle to provide conformity assessment services to verify the company's recycling operations and adherence...

Davis-Standard is pleased to introduce its next-generation gear reducer. This sleek new design represents a commitment to customer feedback, field experience, and technical engineering while building upon the robust performance synonymous with Davis-Standard gear reducers....

AB2026 would ban an online retailer from using plastic packaging, including shipping envelopes, cushioning, or void fill, such as bubble wrap and air pillows. The bill effectively bans one of the most- environmentally favorable protection...

A Texas company recently announced that it will invest $1.1 billion toward building an advanced manufacturing facility in Pennsylvania to convert post-consumer plastic materials into feedstock for new products—an effort the company says will contribute...

The Sustainability-Linked Bond Framework is issued in accordance with the International Capital Markets Association’s (ICMA) Sustainability-Linked Bond Principles 2020. The SLB Framework is designed to support the future issuance of sustainability-linked securities by Huhtamaki. For...

Two testing protocols that determine whether film packaging is compatible with the current recycling infrastructure, along with an additional resource, have been updated and published by the leading plastics recycling authority in North America. The...

“We approach a new packaging technology today in exactly the same way we have for 50 years. If it looks useful, we investigate it, and if it stands up to scrutiny, we integrate it, validate...

ProAmpac, a leader in flexible packaging and material science, announced that it has acquired Specialty Packaging, Inc., a family-owned manufacturer of specialty paper, film, and foil packaging products for the fast food and food services...

2.7 million metric tons of plastic waste are generated in the Philippines each year with about 20 percent ending up in the ocean. An estimated 163 million pieces of single-use plastics known as multilayer sachets...

Chemical recycling may not be a perfect solution to the plastic waste problem, but in certain scenarios, it’s the best answer we have. Ignacio Gavilan, sustainability director at The Consumer Goods Forum, tells us more....

With its new state-of-the-art production facility in Germany, Siegwerk not only strengthened its footprint in Europe securing fast lead times and highest quality consistency for its customers in the EMEA region, but also enabled the...

Flint Group Flexible Packaging Europe will increase prices effective from June 2022. Escalating costs continue to be seen across a number of raw material categories with no sign of improvement – binders, additives, pigments, solvents...