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Mamata Demonstrates Pouchmaker for Unsupported Films at Open House

(Bag Pouch)

July 02, 2012, Servo-driven Vegaplus 820 produces pouches that can be recycled MONTGOMERY, IL | Mamata Enterprises Inc. held an open house June 18-30 to demonstrate its Vegaplus 820 servo-driven pouchmaking system. ...

PolyCello Invests in VISTAFLEX Flexographic Press from W&H

(News | New Products)

July 01, 2012, ... used as an alternative to lamination and allows pouches to be recycled as #2 plastic instead of ending up as garbage in landfills. To stay in step with customers' and their own awareness of the impact ...

PMMI Looks at Economics, Label Trends

(Label/Tape)

June 30, 2012, The July 2012 issue of “PMMI Reports” sees growth through year’s end; trends in labeling include thinner stock, sustainability, and improved tracking   RESTON, VA | News of note from “PMMI Reports,” ...

Nordson, PPC Teach Kids How to be Green

(Carton Box)

June 12, 2012, ... recycled or reused. Five Nordson locations in all (California, Rhode Island, Ohio, Georgia, New Jersey) worked with schools and/or children’s programs for the event. Nordson’s Rick Pallante, PPC industry ...

Biobased Label Uses Building Block from DuPont Tate & Lyle

(Adhesives)

June 06, 2012, ... standard protocol testing are said to show the product enables zero contamination in PET recycle streams. “DaniMer is pleased to announce this advancement toward eliminating a significant challenge within ...

Green Bay Packaging Is FSC Certified

(Carton Box)

June 02, 2012, ... earning the authorization to supply FSC-labeled products. Family-owned Green Bay Packaging is a vertically integrated company consisting of corrugated container plants, folding cartons, recycled and ...

DuPont Awards | Packaging that Reduces Food Waste Captures Top Prize

(Carton Box)

May 09, 2012, ... and Waste Reduction Ciclo VerdeTaeq is a closed-loop system that brings recycled materials into the production of high-value products instead of being used to make lower value articles and enables societal ...

NPE Follow Up

(Tom’s Poly Ploys)

April 30, 2012, ... of PET (polyester) so that the recycled stream has the same physical properties as the virgin material.  The same goes for polyethylene-based waste stream (minus the IV increase step). All in all it ...

Ten Years of Success for FILMtech

(Flexpack)

April 24, 2012, ... effort to recycle, reuse, and reduce. FILMtech has expanded exponentially and is now housed in an 88,000-sq-ft facility and produces more than a million lb of product each month. Current applications ...

Landa Corp. Unveils Nanographic Printing Process

(News | New Products)

April 08, 2012, ... coated and uncoated paper stocks to recycled carton; from newsprint to plastic packaging films - all without requiring any kind of pre-treatment or special coating—and no post-drying. Adding to this cost ...

ITW Foils Issues Guide to Metallic Effects

(Metallizing)

March 26, 2012, ... impact of metallic effects, dedicating a section to sustainability concerns, complete with a product-by-product grading system. Each application can be used in conjunction with recycled paper and paperboards, ...

Carton/Box | Heavyweight SBS Is Ready to Print

(Carton Box)

March 26, 2012, ... does its own laminating and converting of paperboard products, it stocks and supplies a full range of boards from fine virgin grades to economical recycled grades, to films and foils for the printing and ...

LPS Industries Adds Equipment, Continues Green Ways

(Coating/Laminating)

March 13, 2012, ... associated with fulfillment, and using 100% solventless lamination. We recently executed contracts with two local companies to recycle 100 percent of our poly and paper waste and are exploring an expansion ...

Smokin' Hot Cigarette Cartons Are Top Product of the Year

(Coating/Laminating)

March 08, 2012, ... substrate, the material also is easily recycled because metal content is extremely low and there’s no film layer. Sustainability Award Taghleef Industries LLC, Charleston, SC, deserved the coveted ...

DuPont, Collaborators Save Energy in Packaging

(Coating/Laminating)

February 26, 2012, ... in the skin film process, compared to converting PE, which was the material used in an early development stage. The skin-film itself, and its production residue, can be recycled in the PE waste stream. ...

Erema Sells Recycling System to Jadcore

(Green)

February 04, 2012, ... Ctr., Orlando, FL. Jadcore is a plastics recycler with a monthly production capacity of 6 million lbs. Rob Doti, Jadcore’s VP of manufacturing, expects the Erema TVEplus to open new recycling markets ...

Pureology Relaunched in Bottles with No-Label Look

(Label/Tape)

January 26, 2012, ... innovative set of bottle designs (one sits on its cap the other on its base), which are manufactured from a single mold and appear to embrace on shelf. The bottles are made with 50% post consumer recycled ...

Cardboard Bottle from Ecologic Brands Wins Green Award

(Green Converting)

December 05, 2011, A molded fiber bottle with a re-sealable “smart fitment” is honored for efforts to reduce, reuse, recycle, and recover materials OAKLAND, CA | The International Green Awards recently recognized Ecologic ...

Release Liner Market: Growth Projected, but Threats Remain

(Label/Tape)

November 10, 2011, ... suppliers, laminators, equipment manufacturers, and recyclers. Opening the proceedings, Corey M. Reardon (http://www.linkedin.com/pub/corey-reardon/0/765/357 ), president and CEO of AWA Alexander Watson ...

ASPAPEL Report Looks at Sustainability in the Spanish Paper Sector

(Flexpack News)

November 09, 2011, ... bio-composit…in green mills that generate green employment in rural areas, and to produce recycled paper in urban areas in mills that incorporate waste management facilities, deriving the maximum use of ...