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Chocolate Wrapped in Compostable Packaging Film

(Film)

January 02, 2013, ... The wood-pulp is sourced from managed plantations. The renewable bio-based content of NatureFlex films is typically 95% by weight of material according to ASTM D6866. Offering advantages for packing ...

McCullagh Coffee Launches Compostable Packs Using Natureflex Film

(Flexpack)

November 28, 2012, ... American ASTM D6400, European EN13432, and Australian AS4736 standards for compostable packaging. The wood pulp is sourced from managed plantations. The renewable bio-based content of NatureFlex films ...

High Resolution Thermal Ink Jet Clears Things Up for Hershey's Mexic

(Print)

September 19, 2012, ... and Jolly Rancher branded products as well as brands geared towards the Latin American market: Pelon Pelo Rico, LORENA TU-BOX, Crayón, Brillo Lips, and PulpaToon. The Need for Code Clarity Leading ...

Specialty Papers 2012 Has Broad Agenda

(Coating/Laminating)

September 01, 2012, With coverage including curtain coating technology, trends and markets, and packaging and printing, the Specialty Papers 2012 conference is on the way   CHICAGO, IL | The fourth annual Specialty ...

Sustainable Packaging | Use Newspaper & Water

(Carton Box)

August 20, 2012, ... smart phone. (When the material is in its pulp stage, it is a light gray color. Dye can be added to match a customer’s desired color. Because the dye is food safe, it biodegrades with the product; there ...

Pregis Expands Stock Sizes of ChamberPak Cellular Cushioning

(First Glance)

July 08, 2012, ... Pregis. ChamberPak ships flat, which offers shipping and storage benefits compared to expanded polystyrene or molded pulp structures; 20,000 ChamberPaks can fit on one skid vs. a couple hundred sets ...

Smokin' Hot Cigarette Cartons Are Top Product of the Year

(Coating/Laminating)

March 08, 2012, ... not only to deliver acceptable performance for taste and odor, but it also is recyclable and repulpable. The judging panel gave it high marks for both marketing and technical merit and felt the cartons ...

AWA Presents Specialty Paper Event

(Substrates)

March 05, 2012, ... applications; and the “marriage” between pulp and specialty papers. Current industry thinking in relation to sustainability and recycling in p-s labeling is discussed by Calvin Frost of Channeled Resources ...

Clearwater Adds EarthCoating Resins

(Coating/Laminating)

February 07, 2012, ... used while maintaining or enhancing package performance,” says Richard Dreshfield, director of marketing and customer service for Clearwater’s Pulp and Paperboard Div. “The beauty of the new resin is that ...

100% R-PET Containers To Offer Sustainable Packaging Solutions in No. America

(Flexpack News)

November 10, 2011, ... plastic and pulp containers to North American fruit and vegetable growers, shippers, re-packers, and other food suppliers. Worldwide Plastics has distribution points and sales teams throughout North America. ...

Green Converting: Landfill Diversion

(Green Converting)

August 16, 2011, ... FSC-certified. We feel that is important because our goal is that 100 percent of the pulp we buy be from controlled wood, meaning harvesting practices balance key social and environmental issues. Of course, ...

Mohawk Buys Synthetic & Paper Supplier Bravo Solutions

(News | New Products)

August 15, 2011, Mohawk Fine Papers, manufacturer of fine papers for commercial and digital printing, finalizes the purchase of Bravo Solutions, a supplier of specialty synthetic and paper substrates for digital printing ...

Package Design: Make an Impact

(Flexpack)

July 31, 2011, ... & Gamble partnered with Be Green Packaging to repackage Gillette's Fusion ProGlide razor with a formable pulp tray made of renewable bamboo and bulrush fiber-based material to move away from the clamshell ...

Report Examines Development of China's Paper Industrie

(Flexpack News)

July 26, 2011, Asia Pulp & Paper (APP), among the leading manufacturers of paper in China, has invested in new technology as China's government forces inefficient, high-polluting paper mills to close JAKARTA, INDONESIA ...

Green Trends Prevail

(Flexpack)

February 28, 2011, ... post-consumer recycled fiber (PCF). At the end of November 2010, International Paper (IP) and Starbucks issued a press release regarding a six-week pilot project completed at Mississippi River Pulp ...

Optimism Returns

(Trends/Management)

December 31, 2010, ... that the trend will continue through all of 2011. — Craig Sheppard, Executive Director, AIMCAL-The Assn. of Intl. Metallizers, Coaters and Laminators Pulp & Paper I remain optimistic for 2011 with ...

Teaming Up For Sustainability

(Coating/Laminating: Green)

December 31, 2010, ... a patented zero pollution pulping process; cups made of vegetable plastic from feed corn grown in the US, providing consumers with sustainable alternatives to petroleum plastics; and cutlery made from ...

Biomass Packaging Goes Retail

(Coating/Laminating News)

November 09, 2010, ... and made from wheat straw using a patented zero pollution pulping process. They are leak proof and work with either hot or cold foods. There are cups made of vegetable plastic from feed corn grown in the ...

Looking South

(Label/Tape)

October 31, 2010, ... collaboration in liner recycling.” Last year, Frost and Petri Tani joined forces to launch Cycle4Green — a “cradle to cradle” solution for paper release liner, based not so much on reuse but on repulping. ...

Paper Report Issued

(Carton Box)

October 31, 2010, ... and paperboard production rebounded 8.6% versus a year ago during the first six months of 2010.” The report, “2009 Statistical Summary of Paper, Paperboard and Wood Pulp,” shows US exports of paper ...