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- FTA Awards | Sunshine FPC Wins Two Best of Show Honors
- (Print)
- March 09, 2016, ... an initiative to decrease its carbon footprint and waste streams through reductions and recycling. All converted materials that are scrapped are baled and recycled. Accomplishments include installing sky ...
- UPM Raflatac Offers Results of Shrink Sleeve Label Recycling Study
- (Label/Tape)
- February 07, 2016, Company reports RafShrink PO MDO 40 HS film label boosts recycling rates over PETG labels MILLS RIVER, NC | UPM Raflatac presented the results of a full-body shrink sleeve label recycling study, featuring ...
- ULS Report Issues Study on Packaging Efficiency
- (News | New Products)
- January 23, 2016, ... given amount of product. Study methodology gave credit for source reduction, recyclability, and use of recycled materials. The methodology, findings, and conclusions were reviewed by the Laboratory of ...
- Avery Dennison Launches Glass Labeling Technology
- (Label/Tape)
- October 31, 2015, ... recycling process, impacting both the quality and availability of recycled material. Avery Dennison Glass Recycling materials use a self-adhesive technology that helps to solve these challenges, while ...
- Label Industry Global Awards Winners Revealed
- (Label/Tape)
- October 01, 2015, ... highest percentage (80%) of recycled PET pellets. The new face material, said to have physical features equivalent to virgin PET films and has a lower production cost than other recycled materials, is ...
- ACTEGA Kelstar Adds Blister Coating Technology
- (Coating/Laminating)
- August 31, 2015, ... demonstrating excellent performance on sustainable materials such as recycled paperboard and plastics.” Product is said to offer the following benefits: • Excellent adhesion • Quick cleanup • Excellent ...
- Caparol Sweden Launches Enamel Paints with IML Packaging
- (Label/Tape)
- August 25, 2015, ... offers more look-and-feel options. IML packaging is also better for the environment: the packaging and the label are of the same material and can therefore be fully recycled. Choosing IML therefore offers ...
- New England Paper Cluster Hears from Mohawk CEO
- (Flexpack)
- July 29, 2015, ... programs on the supply of recycled fiber. In addition, Paul Bitters, product development manager at Paperlogic, offered an update on the firm’s work on nanocellulose, said to be an innovative type of paper ...
- FINAT Announces Recycling Awards Winners
- (Label/Tape)
- July 25, 2015, ... liners recycled. The goal is to raise awareness for the growing number of sustainable and economically viable recycling programs. These offer companies site-specific solutions for the collection and recycling ...
- PaperWorks Industries Acquires CanAmPac
- (Carton Box)
- June 06, 2015, ... agreed to acquire CanAmPac, Napanee, ON, Canada. The acquisition includes coated recycled board (CRB) producer Strathcona Paper, folding carton manufacturer Boehmer Box, and LYFT Visual graphic services. ...
- NPE 2015 Wrap-up
- (Tom’s Poly Ploys)
- March 31, 2015, ... a multi-year, proof-of-concept program to collect and reclaim non-recycled flexible packaging waste and convert it into oil. This program involved not only the large scale pyrolysis process needed to ...
- Barrier Resins | Properties, Processing & Handling of EVOH, Pt. 2
- (Flexpack)
- March 23, 2015, ... EVOH packaging is microwaveable; can be scanned in metal detectors; is transparent; possesses some superior mechanical properties; and can be recycled. In flexible packaging, other properties, such ...
- Virgin Fiber a Necessity in Chocolate Packaging
- (Carton Box)
- March 05, 2015, ... with both the environmental debate and the discussion about how mineral oils in recycled-fiber-based materials can contaminate packaged foods. “We are following the mineral oil debate with great interest, ...
- Barrier Resins | Properties, Processing & Handling of EVOH, Pt. 1
- (Flexpack)
- February 01, 2015, ... processing conditions. The scrap generated in polyolefin/EVOH coextrusion is commonly recycled as a regrind layer in sheet and bottle applications. Coextruded packages with EVOH can also be recycled post-consumer. ...
- FPI Reports on Trends in Foodservice Packaging
- (News | New Products)
- November 27, 2014, ... This year’s foodservice packaging trends focused on both the environmental attributes as well as the “look” of containers. Demand for products that can be recycled and/or composted continued, with perhaps ...
- Release Liner | Annual AWA Seminar Paints Picture of Today’s Market
- (Label/Tape)
- November 16, 2014, ... in terms of waste costs and liner costs. The pressure-sensitive label converter rewinds used liner, but only about 1% is recycled.” Now with about 5% of the label market, linerless labels, while they ...
- AkzoNobel Coating Creates Compostable Paper Cup
- (Coating/Laminating)
- September 24, 2014, EvCote Water Barrier 3000 is made from plant-based oils and recycled PET bottles AMSTERDAM, NETHERLANDS | Akzo Nobel's new pioneering coatings technology EvCote Water Barrier 3000—which itself is made ...
- Avery Dennison to Showcase New Products
- (Label/Tape)
- August 17, 2014, ... the range of company’s material designed to advance the recycling of PET containers—which addresses supply imbalances of recycled PET (rPET) and improves cost. Portfolio now includes Roll-Fed Sleeve constructions ...
- Show Preview | Labelexpo Americas 2014 Enhances Focus on Package Printing
- (Label/Tape)
- August 04, 2014, ... is an expansion in the company’s range of material designed to advance the recycling of PET containers, which addresses supply imbalances of recycled PET (rPET) and improves cost. CleanFlake now includes ...
- Plastics Recycling and Sustainability
- (Trends/Management)
- June 24, 2014, ... Products made from recycled plastics, displayed by companies such as Dell, EcoStrate, Green Toys, Preserve Products, Seventh Generation, and TerraCycle, with more to be announced. PET recycling/sustainability ...