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Flexible Packaging Association 2009 Award Winners

(Flexpack Main)

February 28, 2009, ... and shelf life. The Coldpack system reportedly offers superior thermal and air cushion protection to solve this problem. Vaccines are said to arrive safe, stable, and secure. Less for Landfill Bemis ...

Conserve Energy

(Archive)

January 31, 2009, ... 2007, p24). Other converting facilities reportedly have partnered with local community landfills to obtain low cost, waste methane gas, which they use to power their boiler systems, thereby reducing greenhouse ...

Martin Automatic to exhibit at India Label Show

(News | New Products)

December 10, 2008, Martin Automatic will exhibit at the India Label Show, to be held December 3-6 in New Delhi, India ROCKFORD, IL | Martin Automatic will exhibit at the India Label Show, to be held December 3-6 in New Delhi, ...

Using Renewable Energy

(Green Converting)

October 31, 2008, ... This renewable and carbon-free energy comprises 50% wind, 40% recovered landfill gas, and 10% agricultural gas. George Fickau, manager of sustainable packaging at CEI, reports the company could have ...

Shrink Expands

(Label/Tape)

September 30, 2008, ...  products. He makes sure his products — whether its 2 million fast food packets or 1,000 specialty labels — do their job. But ultimately, he says with a laugh, “We tell people that we're just making landfill ...

Dirge for a Plastic Bag Part 2

(Editorial)

August 31, 2008, ... bags in a landfill? From what I've heard, they'll outlast me and maybe my kids. I can remember that many grocery chains in Chicago had bag recycling programs in past years. Given the cost of resins these ...

Weight Reduction

(Archive)

August 31, 2008, ... results in reduced shipping costs for both CEI and its customers, and less waste is being generated during the converting process and ending up in landfills, says Nowak. But that is just one part of ...

Predators Team with Smurfit-Stone to Go Green

(News Eclips)

August 12, 2008, ... initiative,” said Tim Bebout, area manager for Smurfit-Stone’s recycling operations. “This is a great way to take materials out of the waste stream that otherwise would have gone to a landfill. It’s good ...

Breakdown Breakthrough

(Green Converting)

August 11, 2008, ... package through home or industrial composting. This approach supports Jordan's overall strategy and makes a meaningful contribution to reducing waste disposal and landfill requirements, while reducing the ...

August 2008 PFFC First Glance

(Magazine)

July 31, 2008, ... and landfill requirements, while reducing the need for incineration. Pack & Tack Jannel Packaging, Holbrook, MA, offers a range of custom-manufactured packing list envelopes featuring a choice of adhesives ...

Dirge for a Plastic Bag?

(Editorial)

July 31, 2008, ... their undying support for the latest “Zeitgeist” movement. As you indicated, we investigated 50-year-old landfills, tried to ban plastic bags, wanted to outlaw aluminum cans, tried to outlaw the six-pack ...

ACC Owners

(Experience Speaks)

June 30, 2008, ... person. What sustainability efforts has your company made? Mark | One of the biggest things we've done is a dramatic reduction of waste going to landfill. Now it goes to a recycling facility. Other ...

Recycling Program Aimed at Customers

(Green Converting)

April 30, 2008, ... custom plastic sheet, is combining two environmental concepts — sustainability and recycling — to keep product out of landfills and return salable product to customers. In the “zero landfill” policy, GOEX ...

Riding the Technology Wave

(Label/Tape)

April 30, 2008, ... on pushed Europeans to find less wasteful (to reduce energy costs), more environmentally friendly products (because of fewer landfills per capita as well as more congested land space generating greater ...

Trail Blazing

(Green Converting)

March 31, 2008, ... were once printed on traditional foil have since switched to CurtCHROME. “We have transitioned a lot of customers over from the foil laminated product — that in most cases gets thrown away in the landfill ...

Clever Converters

(Flexpack)

March 31, 2008, ... It uses about eight times less warehouse space, consumes eight times less landfill space, and uses less than 50% of the packaging needed for reduction sustainability. The Judging Panel Entries in ...

No-Wait Welding

(Coating/Laminating)

February 29, 2008, ... polyethylene (PE), polypropylene (PP) and polyvinyl chloride (PVC) sheets for use primarily as covers and liners in agriculture, construction, landfill applications, and marine markets. Integra purchased ...

Sustainability—Déjà Vu All Over Again?

(Bag Pouch)

February 29, 2008, ... participating educators what they would find at their local landfills. He explained how newspapers from the 1960s were still legible; how chicken bones, hot dogs, and other “biodegradable” products were ...

IP, Memphis Aid Recycling

(Green Converting)

December 31, 2007, ... of Memphis's waste sent to the landfill, but the All Aboard campaign will help the city lessen its environmental footprint by recovering these items. What's happening at your company? Send your news to ...

Converting Industry News

(Magazine)

September 30, 2007, ... be in charge of the office. Getting New Power VALHALLA, NY | Fujifilm’s primary US manufacturing complex, located in Greenwood, SC, plans to use methane gas from a local community landfill to power ...