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FPA Publishes E-commerce Streamlined LCA Case Studies

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January 18, 2021, The Flexible Packaging Association’s (FPA) Sustainability Life Cycle and Economic Impacts of Flexible Packaging in E-commerce Report The Flexible Packaging Association’s (FPA) Sustainability Life Cycle ...

Avery Dennison’s Full Film Portfolio Receives APR Recognition

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January 11, 2021, Avery Dennison Label and Packaging Materials announced its Machine Direction Orientation (MDO) and Polyethylene (PE) films have been recognized to comply with the Association of Plastic Recyclers (APR) ...

HOW TO: Identify What Perforation Method is Right for Your Application

(HOW TO Guide)

November 15, 2020, ... a rubber vulcanizing process, or to allow air to escape between the layers of an aircraft’s composite layered fuselage to increase structural rigidity? In food packaging, the most common applications are ...

HOW TO: Combine the Capabilities of a Duplex Center Winder with the Productivity Gains of a Turret

(HOW TO Guide)

November 15, 2020, ... productivity gains of a turret. The 900MC can rewind to a 32” diameter and will handle materials including paper, primary films, flexible packaging laminations, pressure sensitives, and label stock. To ...

TOPAS Advanced Polymers’ Cyclic Olefin Copolymer (COC) Earns Certification as Recyclable Material in Europe

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November 01, 2020, ... packaging solutions to meet today’s sustainability needs,” said Wilfried Hatke, sales and marketing manager, EMEA, TOPAS Advanced Polymers. “COC is a key enabler and opens many opportunities in shrink ...

Inside the October Issue of PFFC

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October 26, 2020, ... packaging across many markets. Throughout the first half of 2020 alone, we have witnessed this increase in flexible packaging demand in food packaging – used to help maintain freshness for foods during ...

AIMCAL Hall of Honor Inducts First Five Members

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October 19, 2020, ... (Toronto, ON, Canada); and Past Executive Director Craig Sheppard. Members of the first AIMCAL Hall of Honor class were recognized on the opening day of the AIMCAL R2R USA and SPE Flexible Packaging ...

Major Global Automaker Launches Pilot Trial of Cortec’s Eco-Corr Film

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September 23, 2020, ... to test Cortec’s Eco-Corr Film® as part of its new “green” logistics project aimed at decreasing plastic consumption. “Green” packaging alternative Eco-Corr Film is used for transport of automotive engines ...

In the Spotlight: PennPac Invests in Expansion

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August 08, 2020, PennPac Company, a service-oriented provider of custom slit flexible packaging films, is expanding with a newly constructed Class A facility in Greenville, S.C. Submitted by PennPac Company PennPac ...

Comexi and Socipack Strengthen Relationship Thanks to the Acquisition of a Wide-Web Slitter-Rewinder

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July 19, 2020, ... presses, three Comexi laminators, and two Comexi slitters. The new Comexi S2 DS will be the company’s third slitter and the eighth Comexi machine. Socipack, Société Ivorienne de Packaging, is a company ...

AIMCAL ACTIVITIES

(AIMCAL)

July 12, 2020, ... coating, web handling and winding, adhesives and coatings, flexible packaging, and market reports as well as plenary keynote addresses. Leading consultants and experts from academia and original equipment ...

Vived Management Releases the New Hot Tack Tester

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June 24, 2020, ... more than 25 years. Experience in R&D, designing and development of measuring equipment, has resulted in a range of instruments for the flexible packaging industry. The J&B HT5000MB could automatically ...

Rising to the Challenge

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June 14, 2020, ... largest multinational flexible packaging solutions company, UFlex Limited has a state-of-the-art manufacturing facilities at strategic locations across the globe including the U.S., Mexico, Poland, Egypt, ...

How Flexo Printers Can Help Brands With Green Initiatives

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May 21, 2020, ... their practices and looking for ways to become more sustainable, focusing on product packaging and plastic reduction in particular. Flexographic printing has helped change the packaging industry as it ...

Wisconsin Converting Manufacturers Run Full-Out to Supply Healthcare Needs During Fight Against COVID 19 Pandemic

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April 25, 2020, ... packaging, pressure sensitive liners, cosmetic, baby and many other items in home and institutional usage. The state’s converting industry takes jumbo mill rolls of paper, nonwovens and film, transforming ...

The Back Page: Taking it back 54 years

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April 23, 2020, ... A. Pering, Packaging Consultant IT SEEMS apropos that a column entitled “Core of the Matter” should discuss cores literally as well as figuratively. For many years the 3-inch I.D. core has been well ...

How Flexo Printers Can Help Brands With Green Initiatives

(Flexography)

April 22, 2020, ... focusing on product packaging and plastic reduction in particular. Flexographic printing has helped change the packaging industry as it allows for printing on a wider range of materials than traditional ...

AIMCAL Announces Winners During Virtual Award Ceremony

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April 16, 2020, ... shrinks the carbon footprint of the packaging but also reduces its cost,” noted one judge. “Even though most U.S. consumers don’t have access to industrial composting facilities, consumers view compostability ...

Three Ink Market Trends Helping to Achieve Sustainability Goals

(Inks/Coatings/Primers)

April 16, 2020, ... Sun Chemical With the world becoming more environmentally conscientious, consumers are focusing more than ever on the products they’re purchasing and how the packaging of those products could potentially ...

PFFC’s Companies to Watch

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April 09, 2020, ... and Carl Joachim, all with different backgrounds, that somehow came together in 2013 and landed on the same vision - to build a disruptive flexible packaging company, based on digital printing. They saw ...