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Boelter Industries, Inc. (www.boelterindustries.com) increased printing and converting capacity with the installation of a second BHS Flexline Compact flexographic press from Gallus (www.gallus-packaging.org).
Ropak took stick pack machinery to a new level in time for the single
serve packs to become the hottest trend in consumer packaging – and
they’ve achieved some incredible throughputs -- up to 1,000 per minute.
Developing machine-control standards that can be widely—if not universally—agreed upon is an activity that remains near the top of P&G’s to-do list.
As director of sustainability for Mars North America, Kevin Rabinovitch
works with all of the company’s units (food, snack, and pet care) in
the U.S. He develops and executes sustainability strategies and
initiatives aimed at improving triple bottom line
results—environmental, social, and economic.
Below are the insights and comments of Kristina E. Paquette, PhD on FDA’s December 2007 revisions to its Chemistry Recommendations guidance document. Dr. Paquette had served as a chemist in FDA’s Office of Food Additive safety until mid-2007, and was personally involved in developing some of the revisions.
Bioplastics: The very name suggests sustainability, but that shouldn’t exempt the materials from an objective, probing analysis.
TerraCycle, the company built on worm poop, gives used containers new life as plant-food packaging.
The packaging scene has always been complex and technically challenging. But now that the endlessly complex and sometimes contradictory requirements of sustainability have landed in our laps, packaged goods companies and the suppliers they rely on have it tougher than ever.

Folding Carton Stock – Signature Solutions folding carton board maintains stiffness while providing a smoother printing surface.
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