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2023 FPA Awards Emphasize Both Form and Function
A common theme among the flexible packaging applications that earned recognition as 2023 Flexible Packaging Association (FPA) Award winners is their ability to strike a balance between eye-catching aesthetics and performance in product protection.
March 30, 2023
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Sustainable Urn-liner for Beverage Dispensers
Liquibox’s sustainable urn-liner is designed for iced tea and coffee beverage dispensers. It is comprised of an all-PE bag and adapter with a removable TPE tube that can easily be separated from the bag's adapter so the mono-material bag can be recycled.
March 6, 2023
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Paper Packaging Expands to Reckitt’s Dishwasher Tablets
Reckitt develops a paper-based pouch for its Finish dishwasher tablets that replaces 75% of plastic with responsibly sourced paper while maintaining barrier properties to protect against moisture.
March 3, 2023
Introduced in Carrefour retail stores in France in the fall of last year, the paper-based pouch is the culmination of a multi-step process by Reckitt to ‘achieve the ultimate pack in terms of sustainability.’
Shower Cream Refill Now in a 100% Recyclable Pouch
The mono-material pouch, for Japanese company Lion Corp.’s Shokubutsu Monogatari brand in Thailand, uses polyethylene film made from tenter-frame biaxial orientation.
March 1, 2023
Japanese beauty care brand Shokubutsu Monogatari is hitting all of the three R’s—Reduce. Reuse. Recycle.—with a new 100% recyclable pouch construction for its shower cream refills in Thailand.
Sustainable Heat Sealable Paper Packaging
ProAmpac’s ProActive Recyclable Paper-1000 packaging is designed for frozen food applications such as ready-to-eat meals and vegetables. It can also be used for various dry foods and secondary packaging applications such as confectionery.
February 28, 2023
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Parkside Flexibles Celebrates a Successful Year
Parkside Flexibles reported strong year-on-year growth despite a challenging 12 months for the industry.
February 23, 2023
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FPA Publishes Annual Report to the Members
The Flexible Packaging Association (FPA)'s report provides an overview of the initiatives and activities it conducts on behalf of its members.
February 15, 2023
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Innovative New Sustainable Packaging at PACK EXPO International
PMG editors fanned out across PACK EXPO International in October in search of packaging innovations. Here's what they found in sustainable packaging.
January 28, 2023
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Innovative New Food Processing & Packaging at PACK EXPO International
PMG editors fanned out across PACK EXPO International in October in search of packaging innovation. Here's what they found in food processing and packaging.
January 28, 2023
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BAR-U-EAT First to Offer BPI-Certified Compostable Bar Wrappers
The film structure is a lamination of a cellulosic-based film and a compostable sealant web with LLDPE properties. The commercially compostable plant-based materials come from a wood cellulose from FSC-certified, sustainably managed forests and corn.
February 9, 2023
The film material is flexographically printed in five colors per SKU and provided as rollstock to the brand for flow wrapping. Notably, this film material runs on traditional flow-wrap equipment.
Packaging’s Most Versatile, Sustainable Option
What would packaging look like if virgin plastics were made illegal?
February 7, 2023
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Innovative New Pharmaceutical Packaging at PACK EXPO International
PMG editors fanned out across PACK EXPO International in October in search of packaging innovation. Here's what they found in pharmaceutical packaging.
January 28, 2023
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