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Sustainable Packaging | Use Newspaper & Water

(Carton Box)

August 20, 2012, ... of recycled content. Fortunately, with sustainability as their mantra, packaging developers are expanding the possibilities available with advanced, economical molded fiber packaging applications. As ...

Newark Group Sells Waste Recovery Operations

(Carton Box)

August 10, 2012, ... of 100% recycled paperboard and paperboard products, announces the sale by its European Operations of its minority shareholdings in three waste recovery companies in Spain and the South of France to the ...

PMMI Study Explores Trends & Challenges in Labeling

(Label/Tape)

July 24, 2012, ... materials, including soy-based film, tree-free and paper-free stocks made from stone, and post-consumer recycled materials. Thirteen percent of surveyed end-users say they’re actively moving away ...

Badger Plug Adds Locale for Recycling

(Green)

July 23, 2012, ... could be recycled, but we found the industry was more than interested in getting these products out of their local waste stream and back into a recycle or reuse venue." Duffy points out that many packaging ...

PACK EXPO Intl. 2012 Highlights Printing, Converting & Material Innovations

(Print)

July 23, 2012, ... solutions designed to minimize the use of plastic while maintaining the functionality and convenience consumers need. Ecologic’s bottle consists of a molded fiber outer shell made from 100 percent recycled ...

Managing Creatively Inspires Enthusiasm AND New Business

(Trends/Management News)

July 22, 2012, ... Group is doing. The Newark Group is a leader in the collection of secondary fibers and the manufacturing and converting of 100% recycled paperboard, and it took the party concept a step further, for ...

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, ... The issue of contamination by the label adhesive was a recurring problem, and [solving it] would provide a significant quality improvement for the users of recycled PET. Our objective of providing world-class ...

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 ...

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 ...

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. ...

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 ...