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Adapting for Digital or Conventional Labels

(Flexpack)

August 11, 2024, ... print stocks need to be eco-friendly, recyclable-friendly or sustainable. The pressure is on stock, inks, recycling, streams and related issues — affecting costs. Single-use plastics are being considered ...

TIPA and Fresh-Lock Collaborate to Enhance Home Compostable Packaging Market

(News | New Products)

July 23, 2024, ... These alternatives maintain the same functionalities, such as transparency and durability while helping to reduce the world’s dependence on traditional plastics. At the end of their use, when placed in ...

NIRI Strengthens Fiber, Filament, Fabric Extrusion Capabilities with Appointment of Dr. Javier Vera Sorroche

(Coating/Laminating)

July 11, 2024, ... Lowell, managing R&D projects with the U.S. Department of Defence, AFFOA, and ANTEA GROUP. He holds a PhD in Thermoplastics Extrusion from the University of Bradford and a Master's Degree in Chemical Engineering ...

Sustainability: A Journey Through Coating and Lamination Technology

(Coating/Laminating)

June 19, 2024, ... bond compounds; energy cured compounds; thermoplastics... The solvent-less adhesive class does not require drying, consequently there are no VOC emissions. The air that is exhausted at the coating head ...

Creating a Circular Packaging Value Chain: How collaboration with suppliers helps converters meet brand owner demands

(News | New Products)

April 28, 2024, ... value chain manager at NOVA Chemicals. He has two decades of experience in the packaging, plastics and chemicals industry. He is passionate about helping customers, partners and brand owners design sustainable ...

Back to the Beach: Global Pouch Forum 2024

(Bag Pouch)

April 21, 2024, ... for flexible plastics packaging; Hear case studies and best practices on pouches that offer shelf appeal, innovation, functionality and convenience; and, Network with top CPG producers and brand owners ...

Innovation in Extrusion Barriers Can Reduce Brand Owners’ Dependence on Plastic

(Coating/Laminating)

April 17, 2024, According to the most recent statistics from the Environmental Protection Agency1, in 2018 the U.S. produced 35 million tons of plastics, while 27 million tons went to landfill. By Jalliina Järvinen, ...

Recyclability & Circularity Consumers Support Sustainable Brand Packaging

(Print)

April 08, 2024, ... sustainability means managing their carbon footprint or reducing reliance on virgin plastics, whereas, for others, it encompasses more traditional Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) activities, for ...

The World of Wipes® International Conference 2024 Opens Registration Tabletop exhibit reservations are being taken for the June event

(News | New Products)

February 11, 2024, ... insights in formulations, industrial and institutional wipes, alternatives to plastics, production technologies, recycling options, and regulatory issues. Preceding WOW will be three pre-conference webinars ...

Takes on Tapes, Labels & Liners

(Converting Perspectives)

January 14, 2024, ... that can help to replace single-use plastics with one of the most renewable substrates on the planet.” Brand appeal often steals headlines in the labeling arena. Optimal printed surfaces include matte ...

Keynote Speakers Announced for TAPPI’s 2024 FlexPack PLACE Conference

(News | New Products)

December 03, 2023, ... organizations to provoke long-term innovation breakthroughs and transformations in sustainable plastics packaging. Klingenberg also serves as a lead in the Closed Loop Composting Consortium, is a member ...

ARC Announces Winners of Best Paper Awards

(News | New Products)

November 18, 2023, ... view and fresh perspective toward hiring, retaining, and cultivating talent.” In the Sustainability track, Best Paper honors went to George Huber of Chemical Upcycling of Waste Plastics (CUWP). The paper, ...

Addressing Plastic Waste with Mono-web Coatings

(Coating/Laminating)

October 25, 2023, As brands continue to focus on ways they can improve the sustainability of packaging, they feel an urgency to address plastic waste, especially plastics in the ocean. By Rick Stokes, Vice President ...

Takes on Tapes, Labels & Liners

(News | New Products)

October 08, 2023, ... help to replace single-use plastics with one of the most renewable substrates on the planet.” Brand appeal often steals headlines in the labeling arena. Optimal printed surfaces include matte and various ...

Textured Rolls Create Attractive and Functional Substrates

(News | New Products)

October 08, 2023, ... pills for the pharmaceutical industry. For decades, embossing rolls from Industrial Engraving, GB Embossing, and IR Engraving have benchmarked industries using rigid and flexible plastics, tissue/towel, ...

Testing Standards a Significant Challenge in Packaging Development

(Flexpack)

September 17, 2023, ... appropriate systems were put in place via cooperation, investment and infrastructure — the obvious example being thin-film plastics which are often rejected simply because they pose a risk of clogging ...

Bringing the Power of Dow Innovation to Labelexpo Europe 2023

(News | New Products)

September 06, 2023, ... be enabled by material science,” said Izzat Midani, Marketing Manager Adhesives at Dow Packaging & Specialty Plastics. Additionally, Dow team members will be available to discuss the Company’s collaboration ...

How Brands Can Appeal to Generation Z with Sustainable Packaging Solutions

(Bag Pouch)

August 30, 2023, ... influence, brands must take note of these consumers’ needs and wants. As Gen Z consumers continue to have conversations on topics of waste, global warming and single-use plastics, brands and packagers ...

Dow Wash-off Label Adhesive Recognized for Sustainable Package Design

(News | New Products)

August 22, 2023, ... filmic labels and closures. APR’s Critical Guidance Recognition is a widely accepted recyclability assessment for plastics packaging and is granted to companies whose products solve challenges in sustainable ...

Morchem North American President to Present Latest Advances in Laminating Adhesives at PACK EXPO

(Uncategorized)

August 22, 2023, ... an innovative manufacturer of adhesives and coatings committed to the circular plastics economy, will present technologies at PACK EXPO Las Vegas that the company has developed to reduce material and energy ...