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Clear Lam Announces Freezer-Grade RPET Rollstock

(Flexpack News)

November 03, 2013, Rollstock made from Recycled Polyethylene Terephthalate is said to perform in tough frozen applications with no compromise in quality   ELK GROVE VILLAGE, IL | In response to growth in frozen baked ...

FiberMark Announces Folding Carton Materials for Spirits

(Carton Box News)

August 20, 2013, ... are FSC certified (FSC-C020981), made in the US, and include recycled content. Available in three calipers (12, 18, and 26 pt), boards are said to be strong and durable while providing a stylish, refined ...

Seven Win In-Mold Honors for Seventh Awards Competition

(Label/Tape)

August 05, 2013, ... image suiting the customer's promotional or event needs. Made from 75% post-consumer recycled polypropylene, the cup's PP label also allows recycling with the cup. Best Injection Molded (IML) Package, ...

Label PRomotion | Custom Labels Can Extend PR Influence, Impact

(Label/Tape)

July 22, 2013, ... awareness. This is one area where materials used in label printing can say volumes. Did you know there are labels made from corn and even stone that don’t deplete forests? Many labels now can be recycled, ...

Black Bubble Air Cushioning Now Available

(Flexpack)

July 15, 2013, Astra-Bubble Renew from Pregis also features high recycled content DEERFIELD, IL | Pregis Corp. has commercialized another protective packaging first—black bubble air cushioning with high recycled ...

Packaging Awards | AidPod Takes Top Spot as DuPont Celebrates Innovation

(Flexpack)

May 12, 2013, ... to landfills. Close the Loop recovers the plastic and remainder ink from used cartridges. BCM Inks uses the recovered ink to develop a new water-based flexographic ink called ‘PCR (Post-Consumer Recycled) ...

Flexible Packaging | Exopack Wins FPA’s Top Award for Kraft’s YES Pack

(Flexpack)

January 21, 2013, ... a proprietary coextruded HPDE blend, allowing it to be recycled with other HDPE products in municipalities with recycling programs, as well as at retail stores with drop off locations for clean and dry ...

Henkel & DaniMer Form Hot Melt Alliance

(Adhesives)

January 15, 2013, ... resources,” said Daniel Carraway, CEO and founder of DaniMer Scientific. “They are also unique in that we have enabled the use of recycled renewable content in certain adhesive grades, which allows us ...

Readers Choice: Top 11 New Products of 2012

(Coatings)

January 01, 2013, ... and scratch resistance. Most notably, it can print on any off-the-shelf substrate, from coated and uncoated paper stocks to recycled carton; from newsprint to plastic packaging films - all without requiring ...

Thilmany Offers Exhibitor Brand Glassine Papers

(Flexpack News)

December 11, 2012, ... certification is also available. For added brand distinction, Exhibitor glassine papers are also available with chain-of custody certification and recycled fiber content by request. Thilmany Papers glassines  ...

TLMI Honors Mitsubishi Recycling Program

(Green)

November 23, 2012, ... business sense. This exclusive direct liner-to-liner reuse process creates Reprocess Sustainable Liners with up to 25% post-industrial recycled content. The environmental benefits of the Reprocess program ...

Sustainability | Q&A with Kyla Fisher

(Carton Box)

October 11, 2012, ... of post-consumer recycled (PCR) content in paperboard than ever before. Many of the Fortune 1000 have set the goal of increasing PCR content in their materials and are looking for suppliers that can help ...

Dow Europe Adds New Polymers

(Coating/Laminating)

September 03, 2012, ... in Paris, France. AFFINITY GA 1000R is an MAH-grafted polymer said to offer excellent bond strength for hard-to-bond substrates such as coated papers and boards or recycled paper. Also said to offer ...

Spear a Clear Leader in PET Bottle/Label Compatibility

(Facestocks)

August 22, 2012, ... of these materials are particularly welcome. Spear’s materials are said to show acceptable PET haze and “b” clarity values up to a 50% recycled content load and include the blowing of new PET bottles from ...

Spear P-S Materials Aid PET Recycling

(Green)

August 21, 2012, ... the base materials. Spear’s materials show acceptable PET haze and “b” clarity values up to a 50% recycled content load and include the blowing of new PET bottles from the recycled flake with acceptable ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...