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Multi-Solution Approach Key to Achieving Sustainability Goals

(Extrusion Coating)

February 24, 2020, ... initiatives that reduce their impact on the environment, increase the recyclability of their packaging, and incorporate more postconsumer recycled content into packaging where possible while ensuring optimal ...

New Wash-Off Adhesive Optimises PET Recycling

(News | New Products)

December 29, 2019, ... pellets that meet the statutory requirements governing direct food contact.” Above all, PET can be recycled not only once, but in principle an infinite number of times, which is a point the authors of ...

Flexible Packages Standing Out in 2019

(Flexpack)

December 11, 2019, ... that its production of a high-barrier pouch made with 25 percent post-consumer recycled (PCR) materials for JUSTIN’S® newest product innovation, Nut Butter Covered Nuts. To produce the new pouch, ProAmpac ...

Flexible Packaging, a Converting Dynamo

(Converting Perspectives)

December 01, 2019, ... tolerant, costing less than some other substrates. Its specialty characteristics include having a low coefficient of friction and good chemical resistance. It’s not widely recycled, but the recycling rate ...

RKW Launches Sustainable Product Line for Packaging Industry

(Flexpack)

September 10, 2019, ... on sustainable materials and recyclability. This line encompasses films, which can be used to produce fully recyclable stand-up pouches as well as others, which contain various degrees of recycled post-consumer ...

Sustainable Winding: Reduce, Reuse, Rewind

(Web Handling)

July 21, 2019, ... as a pulp source. Once re-pulped, the trim waste can be recycled into new paper. This process ensures that no matter the width of the trim waste, it can still be repurposed into perfectly usable paper ...

Packaging and Labeling Sustainability is a Must for the Industry

(Label/Tape)

April 21, 2019, ... to employ more recycled, re-used or compostable materials in the next decade. Avery Dennison is committed to helping converters and brand owners deliver products that are more sustainable – products ...

AIMCAL Awards

(News | New Products)

March 10, 2019, ... Award The winner was a 90 percent post-consumer-recycled (PCR) content biaxially oriented polyester (BOPET) barrier film from Flex Films (USA) Inc. (Elizabethtown, KY), a subsidiary of Uflex Limited’s ...

TLMI Launches PET Release Liner Recycling Program

(Uncategorized)

November 29, 2018, ... Circular Polymers has approved PET release liner as a material that the company can fully recycle. The recycled liner becomes PET pellets that can be used in multiple industries. For TLMI converter ...

Advancements of Bio-Derived and Bio-Degradable Technologies in the Flexible Packaging Market

(Flexpack)

November 25, 2018, ... of polyethylene and is designed to be recycled through existing How2Recycle store drop-offs. This technology offers benefits of low haze, good stiffness and high gloss. The film is currently available ...

Flexible Stand-up Bags for Cat Litter: Discovering the Sustainability Benefits

(Bag Pouch)

August 31, 2018, ... because as a composite structure (paperboard with a film layer on top), it is assumed that the entire package will end up as municipal solid waste. Paperboard without the film layer is typically recycled ...

SGIA Announces 2018 Product of the Year Winners

(News | New Products)

August 26, 2018, All 255 entries will be displayed in the Golden Image Gallery/Product of the Year Gallery at the 2018 SGIA Expo. : FAIRFAX, VA | After evaluating a record-setting field of 255 submissions, judges of ...

L’Oréal and Avery Dennison Collaborate to Eliminate Label Waste

(News | New Products)

August 05, 2018, ... glassine paper liner (waste from label application process) from landfills into recycled products. Through this program, L’Oréal Australia will divert over six tons of glassine paper liner in Australia ...

IMDA Awards | In-Mold Innovation & Sophistication Lead the Way

(IML/IMD)

June 13, 2018, ... interior car parts. The panel agreed, "We'd love to see how it looks in the car." The panel also appreciated the fact that the film trim is recycled. Best Blow Molded Part/Package, Gold Award  Kunlun ...

PPC Adds Digital Category for 2018 Awards

(Carton Box)

June 12, 2018, ... category, cartons are evaluated on how they replaced less sustainable substrates or how they decreased waste, utilized recycled/recyclable materials, or promoted clean production processes. The competition ...

PPC Boot Camp Covers the Industry

(Carton Box)

June 03, 2018, ... a valuable asset that needs to be managed and recycled. This process provides value to converters and the marketplace—and ultimately adds to paperboard’s sustainability story, says PPC.  Quinn Garber, ...

Monadnock Offers Guide to Environmental Options

(Flexpack)

May 15, 2018, ... are quantifiable: increased use of renewable electricity; CO2 equivalent emission reductions; replacing plastics with renewable, recycled and/or recyclable materials in the supply chain. Company says ...

Constantia Flexibles Acquires Creative Polypack

(Flexpack)

May 01, 2018, ... home to a polyethylene blown film extruder, high-definition flexo printing press, and laminators that will produce high-barrier laminates that can be fully recycled. The extra capacity will come onstream ...

AIMCAL Awards | Holographic Carton, Metallized Film Are Winners

(Coating/Laminating)

March 21, 2018, ... panels or bubble wrap, the honeycomb paperboard and corrugated box contains 100% recycled fiber content and may be recycled curbside because the metallized film easily separates from the honeycomb paperboard ...

UPM Raflatac Recycling Solution Goes to China

(News | New Products)

December 17, 2017, ... has grown increasingly over the years as sustainability has become one of the key drivers in the labeling industry. Today more than 10,000 tons of label liner waste is being recycled in Europe through ...