Bagging & Pouching

Amcor Expands PCR Capabilities with Facility Investment

Amcor's investment will enhance its capabilities for producing post-consumer recycled (PCR) packaging, offering customers flexible PCR content options up to 100% to meet sustainability goals and comply with new regulations.

July 11, 2025

Bagging & Pouching

Bagging & Pouching

Amcor Ghent Celebrates Packaging Innovation Powered by a Century of Expertise

Amcor

The Ghent facility has a history of packaging advancements, including the 1972 invention of easy-peel film technology.

July 1, 2025

Bagging & Pouching

Updated Bagger Boosts Uptime, Slashes Maintenance Costs

BW Flexible Systems’ Thiele UltraStar G2 second-generation horizontal bagger includes a redesigned frame, a new controls architecture, and faster changeovers, while maintaining speeds to 38 bags/min.

June 20, 2025

Feeding/inserting/unscrambling

How Products are Loaded and Sealed into Pre-Made Bags and Pouches

In this episode of Package This, you’ll learn about the technology used to fill candy and snacks into pre-made stand-up plastic pouches, put meat and cheese into flat plastic bags, and fill grains and pet food into large paper sacks.

June 12, 2025

Workforce

Formost Fuji Corporation Promotes Matthew Brown within the Engineering Department

Formost Fuji Corporation

Brown, who joined Formost Fuji in 2017, will oversee key engineering initiatives as mechanical engineering manager.

June 5, 2025

Workforce

Accredo Packaging Appoints Frank Winter as CFO

Accredo Packaging, Inc.

Seasoned finance executive brings deep packaging industry experience and strategic leadership to support Accredo’s continued growth as chief financial officer.

June 2, 2025

Bagging & Pouching

UPM Specialty Papers Invests Over 10 million Euros in UPM Tervasaari Mill

UPM Specialty Papers

The investment aims to increase capacity and improve production stability for glassines and flexible packaging papers.

May 29, 2025

Bagging & Pouching

Pregis Expands EVOH Barrier Film Capacity to Meet Demand for Recyclable Packaging

Pregis

This expansion will enable Pregis to scale its sustainable packaging options, including all-polyethylene mono-material films designed to replace less recyclable structures.

May 14, 2025

Bagging & Pouching

Constantia Flexibles Focuses on Growth at its Plant in Austria

Constantia Flexibles

The €50 million investment that will increase aluminum foil production by 30%, enhance supply chain stability, and reduce CO₂ emissions through sustainable practices and renewable energy integration.

May 14, 2025

Bio-based

Live at Rethinking Materials: The Transition to Fiber-Based Packaging

As fiber-based packaging technologies advance, industry proponents say now is the time to replace plastic with recyclable, compostable alternatives—if policy, supply, and consumer clarity can keep pace. Is fiber the future of sustainable packaging?

May 13, 2025

Bagging & Pouching

Scotts Grows Greener with Paper Sack

Scotts revives heritage brand O.M. Scott & Sons with a recyclable paper sack that’s built for performance, rooted in sustainability, and ready for modern lawn care.

May 8, 2025

Bagging & Pouching

New Origins Sample Pack Swaps Foil for Paper

Estée Lauder brand Origins debuts a recyclable 80% paper sample sachet, replacing foil with a more sustainable format that meets repulpability standards and cuts plastic use by 76%.

May 7, 2025

Recycling

H2R Launches Cal SB 343-compliant Store Drop-Off Label

The transition to the new label design is scheduled for August 2025, aligning with H2R’s upcoming July Guidelines for Use, which will incorporate findings from CalRecycle’s SB 343 Material Characterization Study.

May 6, 2025