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Sappi Rockwell Solutions Launches a Sustainable Lidding Film for the Soft Fruit Industry

(Flexpack)

November 10, 2021, ... a strong, peelable seal onto a wide variety of substrates including rPET, aPET, PVC and aPET lined paperboard. The film can be produced with 30 percent and 60 percent post-consumer recycled content variants ...

Kemira Introduces Advanced Polymer Technology to Solve Stickies Challenges in Recycled Paper and Board

(News | New Products)

October 26, 2021, ... and drainage boosters, improving dewatering performance e.g. in high-grammage paperboard grades, and also help improve the efficiency of other functional chemicals, such as sizing, in the papermaking process.  ...

Michelman and CMS Industrial Technologies, LLC Enter into Strategic Partnership

(News | New Products)

October 26, 2021, ... support sustainability like Michelman. For example, we help with the re-pulping and recycling of coated papers and paperboard applications, which Michelman’s coatings promote,” said Kevin Norberg, president ...

Castle-Pierce Adds New Packaging Flexo Press and Poucher

(News | New Products)

October 07, 2021, ... quantity film and paperboard packaging. “The new CI press and pouch converter allows us to improve our already industry leading turn-times, capacity and quality. It demonstrates our commitment to our ...

Sappi Rockwell Solutions Launches a Sustainable, Coated Lidding Film Ahead of the Proposed UK Plastic Packaging Tax

(News | New Products)

June 06, 2021, ... good oxygen and moisture vapour transmission rate barriers to increase product shelf-life. Moreover, the Starlid GPE-CL seals to all types of food packaging trays, including PP, paperboard and all PET ...

Do You Make Innovative Machinery - 2021 Innovator of the Year

(News | New Products)

April 14, 2021, ... benefit the paperboard packaging industry through enhanced efficiency, quality, productivity, and/or safety of converting plants. The “mechanical converting process” covers all operations that involve ...

Teknos and Brightplus Cooperate to Develop Bio-Based and Biodegradable Solutions for Food Packaging

(News | New Products)

April 07, 2021, Paper and paperboard used in food packaging or serving are traditionally coated with a thin film of plastic which can make the recycling of such packaging problematic and eventually increase the amount ...

LLFlex Acquires Hampden Papers, Bolstering Consumer Packaging Offerings

(News | New Products)

October 01, 2020, ... paper and paperboard packaging material solutions Hampden’s wide array of laminating, sheeting, coating & embossing capabilities to be combined with LLFlex’s packaging business to provide customers ...

Michelman’s Water Resistant HydraBan Coatings Make Innovative Solutions Possible

(News | New Products)

September 07, 2020, Michelman’s HydraBan® is a brand of water-based coatings designed for use on paper and paperboard. Michelman’s HydraBan® is a brand of water-based coatings designed for use on paper and paperboard. ...

Exploring New Options in More Sustainable Packaging Formulations

(News | New Products)

August 30, 2020, ... so it can be collected and recovered to produce new paper and paperboard products. Food packaging has traditionally been formulated with a range of man-made chemicals, including polyvinylidene chloride ...

Plastics, Packaging and the Environment

(Flexpack)

June 29, 2020, ... like paperboard and aluminum; for this reason, transparent plastics in food packaging became popular.  Despite this, plastic and paper packaging have had a history of negative consumer perception dating ...

The Back Page: Taking it back 80 years

(The Back Page)

May 27, 2020, ... containers ONE of the principal uses of paper and paperboard is for packaging of food products, for which paper has proved to be admirably adapted. It also meets competitive requirements because it permits ...

Plastics, Packaging and the Environment

(Flexography)

April 22, 2020, ... paperboard and aluminum; for this reason, transparent plastics in food packaging became popular.  Despite this, plastic and paper packaging have had a history of negative consumer perception dating back ...

AIMCAL Announces Winners During Virtual Award Ceremony

(News | New Products)

April 16, 2020, ... lamination process on a second-use film carrier. The image was then transferred to Metsa Pro FBB paperboard, which was printed and converted by AM Litho The judging panel was impressed by the graphics ...

Synrad Sheds Light on Converting Applications

(Equipment/Machines - Converting)

March 05, 2020, ... paperboard Cardboard Plastics Polymers Thin films Foils Textiles Leather Labels The benefits high performance CO2 lasers offer converters and material processors are many: Multiple ...

Leadership Assets and Folding Carton Opportunities to be Highlighted at PPC Spring Conference in Florida

(Upcoming Conference News)

March 03, 2020, This April, folding carton executives will gain valuable knowledge about important leadership assets and future market opportunities at the 2020 Spring Outlook and Strategies Conference hosted by the Paperboard ...

Multi-Solution Approach Key to Achieving Sustainability Goals

(Extrusion Coating)

February 24, 2020, ... appearance nor recyclability. Image source: UMP Collaboration between Dow and brand owner Elopak, an international supplier of paperboard-based packaging for food and beverages, is one example of ...

Heidelberg Web Carton Converting Integrates with Heidelberg USA to Strengthen Position in North American Folding Carton Market

(News | New Products)

January 15, 2020, ... with Heidelberg USA gives our customers a local contact for sales and service and gives the Heidelberg brand a presence in the web-fed folding carton and paperboard products markets,” said Pfaff. “Customers’ ...

Flexible Packaging, a Converting Dynamo

(Converting Perspectives)

December 01, 2019, ... you are, with trending products and markets. We could begin with paper packaging in flexibles: paper bags, corrugated and boxboard (don’t say cardboard; paperboard is better). Some examples in boxboard ...

Trends from PPC’s Folding Carton Design Competition

(Flexpack)

September 15, 2019, ... and to help industry professions, the Paperboard Packaging Council (PPC) has shared four design trends the association observed during the judging of its 76th annual North American Paperboard Packaging ...