Search

Myllykoski Sponsors Environmental Workshop

(Archive)

August 09, 2005, ...  VP of national accounts and conference chair, "The Alsip mill was designed with long-term sustainability in mind. By sourcing fiber in the urban forest of Chicago, Alsip diverts waste paper from landfill ...

Reporter Clips

(Magazine)

June 29, 2005, ... is designed to help both converters and their customers collect and recycle used release liners. Instead of ending up as landfill waste, used release liners can be repulped to make useful paper products. ...

Release Liner Recycling Program

(Archive)

June 25, 2005, This special program from Recycling Solutions is designed to help end-users and customers collect and recycle used release liners. Recycling used release liners can save on hauling and landfill costs. ...

Biodegradable Films Today

(Flexpack)

April 29, 2005, ... method is available to recycle, separate, or divert them from disposal in landfills. PLC Probe Most of us love our creature comforts, including the many items that use flexible packaging substrates. ...

Converting Industry News, Part 2

(Magazine)

March 30, 2005, ... use landfill bans as an effective way to push recycling of various packaging and products. She also said states should band together and push the beverage industry to fund national education programs and ...

A King of Shrink Contender

(Flexpack)

March 30, 2005, ... for both converter and end-user alike. A p-s label converter accumulates a lot of matrix waste that’s typically landfilled at a high disposal cost. As well, for the end-user customer, the silicone-coated ...

Converting Industry News

(Magazine)

December 30, 2004, ... to Integrated Waste Management, Reduce, Reuse, Recycle, Recover Energy, and Retention in landfill. Visit plastics.ca/epic. Explore GOA in Miami Beach MIAMI BEACH, FL—Package printing gets its ...

Flex-Pack & Recycling in Japan

(Flexpack)

June 29, 2004, ... Facing significant shortages in available waste disposal capacity (the government estimated only 3.9 years of industrial landfill space remained), Japan sought to reduce waste and improve its material ...

Bio Break Down

(Flexpack)

March 30, 2004, ... discarded. Degradable packaging products can replace nearly every plastic used today and even can degrade gradually in some landfill conditions. They bridge the gap between non-biodegradable and the ...

Appleton Introduces Ream Wrap MoistureBloc; Delivers Moisture Barrier and Is 100% Recyclable/Repulpable

(News | New Products)

March 04, 2004, ... "but it's not and it often ends up as landfill waste. We use our coating capabilities to engineer MoistureBloc to provide cut-sheet producers and retailers a moisture-resistant barrier wrap with great shelf ...

Converter Panel Attracts Interest at Conference

(The Place)

September 30, 2003, ... David R. Roisum of Finishing Technologies, Inc., spoke on “Thinking Thin.” Noting that the markets driving converters to ever thinner webs to reduce material costs and waste going to the landfill provide ...

Managing Your Way Through a ''Green'' Futur

(Magazine)

March 31, 2000, ... to infiltrate many new and untapped markets. At the same time, however, there is a rising tide of sentiment--fueled by environmental groups and growing concerns regarding rapidly decreasing landfill space--calling ...

FPA Winners Prove Again How to Do More with Less

(Magazine)

February 29, 2000, The Flexible Packaging Association (FPA), Washington, DC, presented its 1999 Top Packaging Awards to seven companies for flexible packages that broke The Flexible Packaging Association (FPA), Washington, ...

Saudi methanol producer plans expansion program

(Magazine)

November 30, 1996, ... are currently in operation for the treatment of industrial waste waters, which are rich in organic matter but low in solids. In the case of municipal solid waste, the space for new landfilling sites ...

Partnering launches future growth in laminations

(Magazine)

August 31, 1996, ... suppliers are adopting proactive positions regarding the environment, seeking to have minimum negative impact on air quality, landfill disposal, and the treatment of liquid waste. To move in the direction ...

Trim system in India to be first to handle sugarcane paper.

(Magazine)

March 31, 1996, ... shrinkwrap from landfill sites but will also save Tesco [pounds]12 million a year. The scheme proves that it can make good business sense to be environmentally sensitive." The reusable trays are designed ...

Pollution and politics: how green will the new year be?

(Magazine)

January 31, 1996, ... to former municipal landfills, and parties who sent waste to oil and battery recycling facilities prior to 1987. The Oxley bill also repeals the preference under the current law for remedies that focus ...

Ceramic heater rollers an exciting new alternative.

(Magazine)

July 31, 1995, ... and high temperature, oil breaks down and carbonizes. At this point the waste oil requires special packaging and disposition at expensive, isolated toxic waste landfills. Also, carbonized oil restricts ...

Conserving weight, space earns praise for flexible

(Magazine)

March 31, 1995, ... to the landfills in one year. The package was switched from a paper wrapper and folding box to 48-gauge polyester, flexo-reverse printed and adhesive laminated to a 1.5-mil white low-density polyethylene ...

Shredders provide recycling advantages

(Magazine)

February 28, 1995, The company's core shredders are designed to handle cores and butt rolls up to 8-in. in diameter at a speed of 40 fpm and shred up to 8 tons of cores/hr. The company's core shredders are designed to handle ...