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Constantia Flexibles Introduces Packaging Solutions for Greater Sustainability

(News | New Products)

November 04, 2018, ... properties. All these qualities make EcoCover the perfect lid for yogurt cups, other food and pharma products. EcoTainerAlu: avoid harmful substances EcoTainerAlu is an alumini-around foil container ...

Flexible Stand-up Bags for Cat Litter: Discovering the Sustainability Benefits

(Bag Pouch)

August 31, 2018, ... (fossil fuel usage, carbon impact, water consumption, and municipal solid waste) over the rigid pail and barrier carton, even when taking the current recycling rate of the rigid container into consideration. ...

Inks and Coatings | Catching Up With Sun Chemical’s Felipe Mellado

(Inks/Coatings/Primers)

May 14, 2018, ... containers. This new de-seamable adhesive helps recyclers improve recycled polyethylene terephthalate (rPET) yield without process changes. Developed in partnership, Sun Chemical and Eastman extensively ...

Sleeve Label Awards | AWA Confers 4 with Top Honors

(Label/Tape)

April 19, 2018, ... seaming; shrink execution onto the container; and innovative features. The awards ceremony credits one of labeling's newest and fastest-growing technologies for design quality and originality, product, ...

AIMCAL Awards | Holographic Carton, Metallized Film Are Winners

(Coating/Laminating)

March 21, 2018, ... slotted container with two C-shape honeycomb paperboard/metallized film insulating liners. The first liner covers the bottom, top, and one side of the case, while the second liner nests within to cover ...

Pyrowave Receives Grant to Process Recycled PS

(News | New Products)

January 09, 2018, ... one to three tons per day of post-consumer PS material, which includes foodservice packaging items like cups and take-out containers. The company’s current capacity is estimated at 800 tons/yr, providing ...

Sticking With It | Going Green

(Label/Tape)

December 03, 2017, ... that could be removed from plastic containers. Here the ideal objective is for the adhesive to remain with the label and be removed during the wash process, the first step in plastics recycling. Alternatively, ...

AWA Reviews Sessions on Release Liners

(Label/Tape)

November 25, 2017, ... interest in linerless labeling and in direct-to-container digital print and recycling and sustainability. Other highlights were as follows: Kathrin Federkiel, market manager for Wacker Chemie, covered ...

Movie Popcorn Bucket Gets Peelable IML Coupons

(Carton Box)

November 08, 2017, ... can give their buckets a new lease of life at home as storage containers. Benefits of Peelable IML According to Oscar Peres, regional business development manager for Latin America at Verstraete IML, ...

Packaging Conference 2018 Announces Agenda

(Flexpack)

November 05, 2017, ... e-commerce; Kayser will detail technological inroads behind the recent launch of SureHandle, the first PET container blown with an integrated handle; and Pilon will explain the features of new uShape custom-shaped ...

Avery Dennison Shows Sustainable Solutions

(Label/Tape)

October 16, 2017, ... container or packaging the label is on. Also at Labelexpo, Avery Dennison highlighted its compostable label construction, in combination with biodegradable ink, which company says allows all of this ...

FTA Awards | 6 Best of Show Winners Take Top Honors

(Print)

May 01, 2017, ... has been a member of FTA for six years. Due to an industry-wide movement to improve recovery of polyethylene terephthalate (PET) thermoform clamshell containers in 2012, the facility took on the initiative ...

Readers Choice | Top 10 New Products of 2016

(Flexpack)

December 01, 2016, ... Guidelines as set by the Assn. of Postconsumer Plastics Recyclers (APR), providing a higher yield of PET container recycling. Reportedly, it is engineered to offer high shrink percentages for optimal design ...

Dos Pinos Uses Tetra Brik® Aseptic Slim Leaf

(First Glance)

October 13, 2016, ... when drinking. The package has already been launched by Tetra Pak customers in Japan, Saudi Arabia, and Russia. The containers are recyclable and are made of paper from certified renewable sources. "For ...

UPM Raflatac to Feature Wide-Ranging Display at Labelexpo Americas

(Label/Tape)

August 27, 2016, ... containers; tailored solutions for oil and industrial chemical, digital, and personal care applications; and developments in the paper labeling segments.  As a complement to its existing clear and white ...

Show Preview | Labelexpo Americas 2016 Offers Technology in Action

(Label/Tape)

August 08, 2016, ... that features fully automated valve cleaning and single point dispensing into any container. Will exhibit the NW210 inkjet UV digital narrow press (pictured) that delivers single pass output on any label ...

AWA Summarizes Release Liner Event

(Label/Tape)

July 24, 2016, ... identifying digital direct-to-container print as “a potential disruptive technology in some applications.” Linerless labels, though continuing to gain interest, are still a niche, he said. Pressure-sensitive ...

Clear Lam Launches Lightweight Packaging Materials

(Bag Pouch)

July 05, 2016, ... dips, side dishes, and fresh fruits and vegetables.   Drink Pouches are rapidly replacing rigid containers for many food applications because of their lightweight structure and grab-and-go convenience. ...

FPI Announces Foodservice Recovery Toolkit

(News | New Products)

April 02, 2016, ... the Foodservice Packaging Recovery Toolkit, which provides free resources for recovering foodservice packaging, thanks to a multi-year effort with input from many stakeholders.  "Recovering cups, containers, ...

Klöckner Pentaplast Offers New Shrink Label Film

(Label/Tape)

February 28, 2016, ... Guidelines as set by the Assn. of Postconsumer Plastics Recyclers (APR), providing a higher yield of PET container recycling. Reportedly, it is engineered to offer high shrink percentages for optimal design ...