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Green Converting: Is IML Sustainable?

(Label/Tape)

February 28, 2011, ... be recycled, incinerated, or buried in a landfill. Functionally, p-s labels can have good graphics, but they are subject to defects on the container, such as flagging, wrinkling, and puckering. Container ...

Flexible Packaging: Eco Innovation

(Flexpack)

February 28, 2011, ... the weight of solid waste being introduced into landfills. This package also wins a gold award for Technical Innovation. Packaging Excellence/Environmental & Sustainability Achievement Nordenia ...

Green Trends Prevail

(Flexpack)

February 28, 2011, ... mostly to landfill sites. However, the advantages of a biodegradable notion are rather ambiguous. First, the compostable cup moves the eco-responsibility from the manufacturer to the user, which means ...

Toray Plastics (America) To Build $2 million Solar Field

(Flexpack News)

January 04, 2011, ... KW h of electricity, and 10.1 billion BTUs annually. Operational innovations have also contributed to zero landfill waste. In addition, the company’s rigorous recycling program saves 285 tons of wood, ...

Optimism Returns

(Trends/Management)

December 31, 2010, ... be sent to the landfill when they need to be disposed of. — Jim Lepp, Executive Director, Packaging & Label Gravure Assn. Coating/Laminating AIMCAL members report continued improvement throughout ...

Green Converting: Recycled Roll Coverings

(Web Handling)

November 30, 2010, ... large winding or nip rolls require 700 lb of rubber. That covering is then discarded in a landfill. Now as much as 100% of that material can be saved by removing it carefully, testing it for foreign contaminants ...

Foodservice Packaging To Grow

(Trends/Management)

August 31, 2010, ... less space in landfills and consumes less material than rigid alternatives. Pouches are expected to post the fastest gains of all flexible foodservice packaging types. Bags and sacks will remain the ...

Flexpack: DuPont Honors Innovation

(Flexpack)

May 31, 2010, ... from the landfill. Bag Replaces Pail Packaging Fresh Step Cat Litter in a flexible bag rather than a polypropylene pail brings a Gold award to Clorox, Oakland, CA. The company cut packaging ...

Two Honored for Green Efforts

(News Clips Archive)

April 30, 2010, ... the Sustainable Green Printing Partnership criteria as the framework, Robbie Fantastic Flexibles implemented a continuous improvement project resulting in 15% landfill reduction by December 2009 and a ...

Turning Corrugated into Firelogs

(Carton Box)

March 31, 2010, ... the only national brand safe to use in woodstoves, chimineas, campfires, and as a cooking fuel. To date, the company has diverted more than 100 million lb of wax from landfills, reducing the grocery trade' ...

Beyer Adds 4th Bobst Folder/Gluer

(Carton Box)

March 31, 2010, ... to the landfill. The American Forest & Paper Assn., Washington, DC, reports February Kraft paper shipments were 113,000 tons, a decrease of 15.5% from January. Total containerboard paper production ...

Heat Seal Has No VOCs

(New Products)

October 31, 2009, Latiseal B7707AR water-based heat seal is said to provide perfectly bonded recycled RPET blister packages and will not crystallize over time. Reported Latiseal B7707AR water-based heat seal is said to ...

WHAT'S NEW PRODUCT

(New Products)

September 30, 2009, ... company says, and provides sustainability advantages in cereal, snack, baking mix, and other high-barrier applications. Also said to use less plastic resin, energy, and landfill space. Offers savings in ...

Eco Fiction

(Substrates)

August 31, 2009, ... that are competitively priced? Landfill Legends If we would only stop to think about biodegradability, we would remember that even a phone book covered over in a landfill lasts many decades without ...

WHAT'S NEW PRODUCT

(New Products)

August 31, 2009, ... in conventional landfills. Rate and extent of biodegradability is said to depend on the size and shape of comprised articles. Suitable for applications such as cast and blown film, cast sheet, and thermoforming. ...

Renewable Bioplastic Biodegrades

(News Eclips)

August 10, 2009, ... unconventional landfills. Rate and extent of biodegradability is said to depend on the size and shape of comprised articles. Suitable for applications such as cast and blown film, cast sheet, and thermoforming. ...

News Clips Aug 2009

(News Clips Archive)

July 31, 2009, ... and Canada. The Greenwood, SC, manufacturing complex of Fujifilm has begun using methane gas from a local landfill to power nearly 40% of its operations. Messe Düsseldorf in Germany reports ...

Paper Calculator Is Updated

(News Clips Archive)

June 30, 2009, Washington, DC | The Environmental Defense Fund has updated the underlying data of the Paper Calculator, available at www.papercalculator.org. This interactive Washington, DC | The Environmental Defense ...

WS Packaging Earns Green Award

(News Clips Archive)

June 30, 2009, ... its efforts at its Algoma, WI, facility to keep about 115 tons of waste material per month from the local landfill by partnering with a state firm that turns the waste into industrial pellets that can ...

Film Minimizes Environmental Impact of Air Pillows

(News Eclips)

April 12, 2009, Pregis Corp. has introduced EP-FLEX Renew, a high performance low-density polyethylene air pillow film that is made with up to 50% less resin than other inflatable void-fill products. DEERFIELD, IL | Pregis ...