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AIMCAL Announces Winners During Virtual Award Ceremony

(News | New Products)

April 16, 2020, ... easy access and reclosability to minimize food waste. High opacity white inks and surface matte coating and lamination processes work together to mask the haziness and inconsistencies inherent with PCR ...

Aptar Launches InvisiShield Active Packaging Solution for Pathogen Mitigation

(News | New Products)

March 21, 2020, Aptar Food + Beverage, part of AptarGroup, Inc., announced it has launched InvisiShield™ platform technology Aptar Food + Beverage, part of AptarGroup, Inc., announced it has launched InvisiShield™ ...

Static Control: Crucial to Fluid Converting Processes

(Static Elimination)

March 15, 2020, ...  In industries such as food and drink, where optimum product appearance is paramount, the competition on supermarket shelves is fiercer than ever. Engaging packaging and labels are designed to catch the ...

Narrow Web Twists and Turns

(Web Handling)

January 29, 2020, ... in the food and drink sectors have widely embraced the concept of lean manufacturing. These organisations want to control inventory costs. For wider web width printing and converting this translates into ...

AMI’S Multilayer Flexible Packaging 2020 Conference

(Upcoming Conference News)

January 22, 2020, ... energy. Media focus on “single use plastics” includes flexible packaging, despite its valuable contribution to food waste prevention. Governments are responding with accelerated regulations. Companies ...

New Wash-Off Adhesive Optimises PET Recycling

(News | New Products)

December 29, 2019, ... focus has long since been not only on PET beverage bottles, but also on detergent bottles, soap dispensers and cans for food and cosmetics. The HERMA adhesive, designated 62Rpw, offers the attributes of ...

What’s Next in Inkjet and the Many Reasons to Adopt it

(Digital)

December 16, 2019, ... corrugated printing is making major claims about the sustainability of their inks especially for food packaging. Others will follow with water-based inks, as recently shown for example at Labelexpo 2020 ...

Flexible Packages Standing Out in 2019

(Flexpack)

December 11, 2019, ... collaborated with its customer JUSTIN’S. Utilizing a food-contact FDA-compliant structure, this snack pouch reduces its reliance on virgin resin by using 40 percent recycled plastic content in the sealant ...

UV Inkjet Material Available From Polykote

(News | New Products)

December 08, 2019, ... ready to slit and ship. This new semi-stock offering is produced with a permanent acrylic adhesive that complies with FDA CFR 175.105 for indirect food contact.  The high gloss white facestock provides ...

AR Metallizing Announced Acquisition of Eurofoil Paper Coating GmbH

(News | New Products)

November 12, 2019, ... an increased number of products for direct food contact.” “Nissha continues to encourage the growth of our subsidiary, AR Metallizing. The acquisition of Eurofoil marks a new chapter for AR Metallizing, ...

United Soft Plastics Opens New TPE Manufacturing Plant in Houston

(News | New Products)

November 04, 2019, ... growth for its engineered TPE materials which serve the automotive, food packaging, consumer, medical, and industrial markets in more than 20 countries. “This investment reaffirms our continued commitment ...

Innovia and Wildcorn Develop a Fully Recyclable and Sustainable Pack

(News | New Products)

October 21, 2019, ... oils and oxygen even at high relative humidity levels ensuring increased shelf life and reduced food waste. It is glossy, is food contact compliant and chlorine free.  The film is suitable for use in a ...

Labelexpo Europe 2019 Set for Largest Show to Date

(Upcoming Conference News)

September 03, 2019, ... Flexible Packaging Arena. A Xeikon CX500 (digital) and a BOBST M6 (UV Flexo) will be producing indirect food contact flexible packaging to the latest GMP standards, and live demonstrations will be taking ...

Messe Düsseldorf to Promote “Interpack Alliance” at Pack Expo 2019

(Upcoming Conference News)

August 21, 2019, ... india/ food pex india 2019 (December 12 – 14, 2019 in New Delhi, India) and Upakovka 2020 (January 28 - 31, 2020 in Moscow, Russia), will be available. As the world’s leading international trade fair ...

Innovia’s Strata Film Awarded “Made for Recycling” Quality Seal

(News | New Products)

August 05, 2019, ...  Propafilm Strata SL provides an effective barrier to aroma, mineral oils and oxygen even at high relative humidity levels ensuring increased shelf life and reduced food waste. It is glossy, is food contact ...

FPA Announces Speaker Lineup for Upcoming Fall Executive Conference

(News | New Products)

July 23, 2019, ... solid waste (MSW) and Florida farm biomass waste. With degrees in chemical engineering, food science, and agricultural and biological engineering, Welt completed his education at the University of Florida ...

Dare to be Different!

(News | New Products)

July 09, 2019, ... is looming in printing. We can distinguish six segments that sometimes overlap each other (a bit like in the food, home equipment, or business supply industries): Multiservice printing companies expecting ...

LED UV & Electron Beam Curing Combine to Offer The Perfect Solution

(Case Studies)

June 05, 2019, ... an independent State of Lithuania. Shortly afterwards, a decree was issued by the Lithuanian government obliging all food producers to package their food products. This was the initial impetus for a pioneering ...

Labels Address Transparency, Convenience and Compliance

(Label/Tape)

May 08, 2019, ... law'…While almost every packaged food is required to have a nutritional facts label, indicating the serving size and the nutritional value per serving, alcoholic drinks do not…Any dieter will tell you ...

Sustain the World: the Case for Flexible Packaging

(Case Studies)

May 06, 2019, ... including coffee, motor oil, baby food, laundry detergent, cat litter, and juice. The LCA case studies were developed using the EcoImpact-COMPASS® LCA software, which allows for quick life cycle comparisons ...