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- Substrates Create Challenges & Opportunities
- (Converting Perspectives)
- November 05, 2019, ... and performance-driven properties, according to Filmquest. With a spotlight on the environment, plastics suppliers are innovating. From a Coke bottle made with “Plastic from the Sea” to a degradable ...
- PPC Announces Winners of 2019 Paperboard Packaging Competition
- (News | New Products)
- October 27, 2019, ... blister card yielded a noticeable 61% reduction in plastic and a 48% decrease in packaging weight. Additionally, the redesign led to a significant SKU optimization, consolidating 161 SKUs into three common ...
- How Flexible Packaging Converters Stand to Benefit from Rising Snack Culture
- (News | New Products)
- October 17, 2019, ... as well. Healthy snack bars, nuts, jerkies and pre-cut produce packaged in foils, plastic films and coated paper are fueling the $33 billion snack food industry. According to a 2017 Nielson report, individual ...
- Dow and Mespack industry Collaboration Displayed
- (News | New Products)
- October 13, 2019, ... stand-up pouches to be designed for recyclability. Jointly developed PE-based prototypes will be on display at Dow’s stand at K 2019, the world’s largest trade fair for plastics and rubber. Starting ...
- Dow Presents New ADCOTE™ L76-500 High-Solids Adhesive for High-Speed Metal Lamination
- (News | New Products)
- October 07, 2019, ... “Converters operate in an increasingly competitive market, facing material and processing cost pressures,” said Izzat Midani, marketing manager EMEA at Dow Packaging and Specialty Plastics. “With the ...
- K 2019 Düsseldorf: New Technologies as Drivers of Innovation for a Productive and Responsible Today, Tomorrow and Future
- (Upcoming Conference News)
- October 02, 2019, K 2019, known as “The World’s No. 1 Trade Fair for Plastics and Rubber” is scheduled to take place in Düsseldorf October 16-23 K 2019, known as “The World’s No. 1 Trade Fair for Plastics and Rubber” ...
- Trends from PPC’s Folding Carton Design Competition
- (Flexpack)
- September 15, 2019, ... beverage space, specifically in terms of replacing plastic with renewable paperboard. There was a significant move away from plastic hi-cones and shrink-wrap to highly decorated carton-based multipack ...
- Coating and Laminating Offer Related and Unique Benefits
- (Coating/Laminating)
- September 11, 2019, ... other packages combining paper or plastic and foil as a barrier-to-moisture have had disposal challenges. Products with barrier properties meeting food-grade, EPA or FDA acceptance. Level of barrier ...
- FPA Publishes 2019 State of the Flexible Packaging Industry Report
- (News | New Products)
- September 05, 2019, ... U.S. packaging industry and is the second largest packaging segment behind corrugated paper, and just ahead of bottles and miscellaneous rigid plastics packaging. Flexible packaging’s solid long-term strength ...
- Meech to Display its Newest Static Control and Web Cleaning Technology Products at K 2019
- (Upcoming Conference News)
- September 04, 2019, ... static control bar. Meech will also be displaying its full, long-standing and well-established static control and web cleaning product range at the largest exhibition for the plastics and rubber industry. ...
- FPA Partners With Pack Expo Las Vegas
- (Upcoming Conference News)
- August 29, 2019, ... #LS-6519, in the Lower South Hall of the Las Vegas Convention Center, which is sponsored by FPA member, Dow Packaging and Specialty Plastics. FPA members can register for free using a special promotional ...
- PACK EXPO Las Vegas at a Glance
- (Upcoming Conference News)
- August 28, 2019, ... in paperboard, glass, metal and plastic, flexible and resalable packaging as well as containers and materials in The Containers and Materials Pavilion located in the Lower South Hall. Additionally, 200 ...
- AMI’s Profiles Returns to Europe for the Second Edition
- (News | New Products)
- August 06, 2019, AMI’s Profiles returns to Europe for the second edition - the two-day conference will take place November 12-13. AMI’s Profiles returns to Europe for the second edition - the two-day conference will ...
- Agenda set for AIMCAL/SPE Technical Conference
- (News | New Products)
- July 31, 2019, ... between the Association of International Metallizers, Coaters and Laminators (AIMCAL) and the Society of Plastics Engineers (SPE, Bethel, CT). New this year are three-hour workshops on safety and intellectual ...
- North America: Technology Developments and Market Opportunities Drive Industry Growth
- (News | New Products)
- July 30, 2019, A country report in the run-up to K 2019 A country report in the run-up to K 2019 The North American plastics industry, led by the United States, is posting good business results this year. Sales, ...
- FPA Announces Speaker Lineup for Upcoming Fall Executive Conference
- (News | New Products)
- July 23, 2019, ... an update on the polypropylene market. Morales is currently the service leader of three market advisory subscription services: The Global Plastics and Polymers Report, the North American PE Report and ...
- Alco Seeks Out Vetaphone For New Corona System
- (News | New Products)
- July 16, 2019, When Puerto Rican converter Alco High-Tech Plastics needed a new Corona system for the extrusion side of its business in 2018, it turned to Danish manufacturer Vetaphone. When Puerto Rican converter ...
- Suck it up Paper
- (News | New Products)
- July 07, 2019, ... recent yeas is the shift from plastic to paper. Just when we thought the digital age was giving us reason to believe we had fewer reason to use paper, the material has found its way back into the limelight. ...
- Corona and Plasma – The Different worlds of Surface Treatment
- (Surface Prep)
- July 03, 2019, ... Vice President of Sales at Vetaphone When Verner Eisby invented a technique for surface treatment back in the 1950s, it was in response to growing demand for printing on the plastic packaging material ...
- NDA’s World of Wipes® 2019 International Conference Provided Valuable Connections and New Ideas for a Circular Economy
- (News | New Products)
- July 02, 2019, ... Care Products, Infection Protection, Material Developments in Wipes, Sustainability Challenges in Single Use Plastics, and Preservative Developments. Featured speaker, Lisa Morden, vice president, safety ...