OFF THE SHELF: Flexible packaging flexes its muscles

Packaging World Editor Pat Reynolds shows two examples--a full-body shrink label and a high-barrier clear pouch--of what flexible packaging can accomplish.

Pat Reynolds
Mar 5, 2010

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