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

Flexibles: Page 2

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

Bio-based

Shell and Braskem Partner for Sustainable Polypropylene

Braskem

Shell Chemicals is supplying bio-attributed and bio-circular propylene feedstocks to Braskem to produce more sustainable polypropylene for various consumer markets.

June 9, 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

Package Design

Does Your Packaging Need All That Performance?

Mars is asking a question of its packaging that might surprise its suppliers. 'Do we really need all of that performance? That barrier? That shelf life?' It had always been inexpensive and available, so there was no reason not to use high-performance film, for instance. But with sustainability emerging as a major KPI, brands are rethinking what they need.

June 3, 2025

Flexibles

Kraft Heinz Eyes Super-spatial Atomic Layer Deposition Barrier Tech

Kraft Heinz crowned Kalpana Systems—a Dutch technologist behind a ‘thin film with the precision of a single atom’—as the winner of Rethinking Materials’ recent Global Innovation Challenge. The emerging tech delivers advanced oxygen and moisture barriers to otherwise recyclable paper or mono-PE, without impacting recyclability.

June 3, 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

Flexibles

Dairy Brand's Stick Pack Machine Cuts Costs and Lowers Footprint

Slovenian dairy processor EuroMilk is using an aseptic stick packing machine to benefit its processing operations and expand its product offerings.

May 22, 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