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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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Reduce & Comply

(Magazine)

August 31, 2007, ... other hazardous substances and materials” in packaging materials or components to minimize emissions and discharges from incineration or landfill after disposal. Directive 2004/12/EC amended the Packaging ...

5 Steps to Green

(Magazine)

August 31, 2007, ... landfills and forests alike. According to the Environmental Defense Fund and the Alliance for Environmental Innovation, compared to the manufacture of coated virgin fiber paper, recycled paper offers ...

Be A Good Citizen

(Magazine)

August 31, 2007, ... weight reduces both shipping costs and landfill space, “but that’s two of the three legs of the ‘triple bottom line.’ “Some people are saying, ‘We think you’re doing this to shift the attention away ...

Going Thin

(Slit)

June 29, 2007, ... and the environment. Theoretically, less energy and material is needed to make these materials, and when it comes to waste, less goes to the landfill. The difficulty with going thin is that problems ...

Focusing on European Flex-Pack

(Flexpack)

February 28, 2007, ... Katrina, Rita Major increase in focus on sustainability Finite nature of fossil-fuel-based materials Corporate social responsibility Consumers want biodegradable packaging Landfill sites running out ...

A Call to Arms

(Magazine)

November 30, 2006, ...  In both North America and Europe, we have tons and tons of spent liner going into landfill at a huge cost. Spent liner is a resource that can be used. It is environmentally unfriendly to dump it. It ...

Converting Industry News

(Magazine)

November 29, 2005, ... MEGtec says it removed harmful contaminants from 2,000–3,000 gal of water/wk in parts-cleaning solution; reduced dependence of landfill usage by recycling 95–100 tons annually of paper and cardboard and ...

Testing for Toxins in Packaging

(Magazine)

August 30, 2005, ... reducing the amount of toxics in municipal solid waste landfills. The laws are based on model legislation adopted by the Source Reduction Council of the Coalition of Northeastern Governors (CONEG); 19 ...