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- Metallized Packaging Advancements From Terphane
- (News | New Products)
- April 06, 2020, ... and after the product’s use. Globally, metallized flexible plastic packaging is replacing traditional aluminum-foil packaging and rigid containers. In both Europe and South America, this trend is ahead ...
- interplastica,and upakovka 2020 Reflect Stabilizing Russian Market
- (News | New Products)
- February 25, 2020, At the recent concurrent staging of interplastica, International Trade Fair for Plastics and Rubber, and upakovka At the recent concurrent staging of interplastica, International Trade Fair for Plastics ...
- Pregis Joins CEFLEX to Further European Flexible Packaging Sustainability Efforts
- (News | New Products)
- February 24, 2020, ... Pregis also recently announced that it had joined the Alliance to End Plastic Waste which has a $1.5 billion investment goal over the next five years to help end plastic waste in the environment. Pregis ...
- Domino Digital Printing Launches UV95 Food Packaging Compliant Ink Set
- (News | New Products)
- February 20, 2020, ... compliant with the EuPIA exclusion policy. Most importantly, it is a non-CMR ink set and subject to migration status, can comply with the European Union Plastic Materials and Articles intended to be in ...
- Charter NEX Joins the Association of Plastic Recyclers
- (News | New Products)
- February 16, 2020, Charter NEX Films, North America’s leading independent producer of specialty films, proudly announces they have joined the Association of Plastic Recyclers (APR) Charter NEX Films, North America’s ...
- AMI’S Multilayer Flexible Packaging 2020 Conference
- (Upcoming Conference News)
- January 22, 2020, ... energy. Media focus on “single use plastics” includes flexible packaging, despite its valuable contribution to food waste prevention. Governments are responding with accelerated regulations. Companies ...
- StePac’s Advanced Packaging Cuts Fresh Green Bean Waste
- (News | New Products)
- January 21, 2020, ... But fresh green beans have a short shelf life of around eight to 12 days. Dehydration, a common post-harvest problem, causes the pods to shrivel and become limp from progressive weight loss and plastic ...
- Flexible Packaging, a Converting Dynamo
- (Converting Perspectives)
- December 01, 2019, ... include glass, metal cans and rigid plastics touted for strength and safety. According to the Flexible Packaging Association, flexible packaging is any package or part whose shape can be readily changed. ...
- Charter NEX Joins the Alliance to End Plastic Waste
- (News | New Products)
- November 23, 2019, Charter NEX Films announced it has joined the Alliance to End Plastic Waste (AEPW) − a growing global network focused on ending plastic waste in the environment. Charter NEX Films announced it has ...
- Are We on the Road to Achieving Truly Sustainable Packaging?
- (Flexpack)
- November 11, 2019, ... have publicly declared very ambitious sustainability targets as a result, promising entirely recyclable materials in their packaging production and alternatives to plastic. “What we have seen in the ...
- United Soft Plastics Opens New TPE Manufacturing Plant in Houston
- (News | New Products)
- November 04, 2019, United soft plastics opens new TPE manufacturing plant in Houston. United Soft Plastics has announced the opening of a new 10 million lb production facility in Houston in response to strong market ...
- 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 ...
- 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 ...
- TC Transcontinental Packaging Steals the Show for Sustainable Packaging at the 2019 PAC Canadian Leadership Awards
- (News | New Products)
- June 19, 2019, ... collaborate with partners from across the plastic value chain and make sure to use a circular approach in every step of our product design, from sourcing to end-of-life. We are poised to continue developing ...
- Trends Driving Flexible Packaging
- (News | New Products)
- June 02, 2019, ... launches involving bio-based plastic packaging have taken place. The rise of bio-based plastic films continues with polylactic acid, polyhydroxyalkanoates and poly-trimethylene terephthalate showing the ...
- Packaging and Labeling Sustainability is a Must for the Industry
- (Label/Tape)
- April 21, 2019, Let’s talk materials. To start, let’s focus on plastic. A workhorse material, yes. But at what cost? Adding value through sustainability By Sarah Sanzo, Compliance and Sustainability Manager at Avery ...
- Mike Brandmeier, President and CEO of Toray Plastics (America), Inc., Receives Strategic Leadership Award
- (Flexpack)
- April 03, 2019, Mike Brandmeier, president and CEO of Toray Plastics (America), Inc., has received the Providence Business News’s 2019 Manufacturing Award in the Strategic Leadership category. Mike Brandmeier, president ...
- Polyurethane Ink Resins for Flexible Packaging – Current and Future Needs
- (Flexography)
- April 01, 2019, ... The flexible packaging segment is the second largest packaging segment (19 percent) in the U.S. behind corrugated paper (24 percent) but ahead of rigid plastics (15 percent)1. The major end-use application ...
- Newest APR Recycling Demand Champion Companies Announced at the 2019 Plastics Recycling Conference
- (News | New Products)
- March 14, 2019, Fourteen new companies have committed to an ongoing campaign that expands market demand for recycled resins and improves plastic recycling in North America. Fourteen new companies have committed to ...