Flexible packaging

Live at interpack: Constantia Flexibles Highlights Materials Designed for Pharma and Consumer Applications

This week at interpack, Constantia Flexibles demonstrated the performance of its materials in collaboration with several international machine suppliers, highlighting its commitment to delivering quality products that meet the needs of its customers.

May 5, 2023

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Flexible packaging

Mono-PP Pasta Pack First to Use Advanced Recycled PCR

The sustainable material is derived from advanced recycling and converted into a biaxially oriented polypropylene (BOPP) film for this application, which is the first mono-PP pasta packaging material in the market containing 30% of PCR content.

May 2, 2023

Cartoning

Triangle Celebrates Centennial Anniversary

Triangle Package Machinery Company

Louis R. Muskat (L.R.), founded Triangle Packaging Co. on May 1, 1923. Now in its 100th year of business and under its third generation of Muskat leadership, L.R.’s legacy lives on.

May 2, 2023

Protective/transport packaging

Do Marketing and Packaging Structure Go Hand-in-Hand?

A lot of attention is focused on packaging sustainability and packaging’s ability to perform other functions, from clearly demonstrating the product and its value-added benefits to delivering the product undamaged via e-commerce.

April 28, 2023

Sustainability

Food Lion Brand Demos Advanced Recycling-Based Circular System

Flexible plastic waste from the food supply chain is recycled and attributed to ISCC PLUS certified-circular polymers used for new food-grade packaging. First announced in April 2022, the first-of-its-kind project is now being evaluated for scalability.

April 27, 2023

Sustainability

RecycleReady Technology from Dow Receives RecyClass Recyclability Approval

Dow

Dow’s RecycleReady Technology is the first compatibilizer to obtain a Recyclability Approval. It was found to be fully compatible with the European flexible PE recycling stream.

April 26, 2023

Operational Excellence

Recycling Infrastructure Expands for Flexible Plastic Films

Innovations like artificial intelligence and chemical recycling could solve challenges with recycling flexible plastic film.

April 21, 2023

Operational Excellence

Four Types of Wrapping Machines in Less Than 5 Minutes

In the latest episode of Package This, we explore wrapping equipment and the various use cases for each type of machine.

April 19, 2023

Operational Excellence

Flexible Plastic Films Push for Recycling Expansion

Flexible plastic films could grow faster than plastics overall in the coming years, but recycling infrastructure improvements are needed to support these materials.

April 14, 2023

Sustainability

Avery Dennison Implements Carbon Trust Footprinting Tool

Avery Dennison

As part of its commitment to its 2030 sustainability goals, the company will use the tool to better assess the water and carbon impacts of its label products.

April 10, 2023

Flexibles

Toppan Wins Gold at Australasian Packaging Innovation & Design Awards

TOPPAN Holdings Inc.

Retortable PP mono-material stand-up pouch adopted by Flavour Makers takes top prize for Sustainable Packaging Design

April 10, 2023

Sustainability

Indorama Ventures, Evertis Collaborate on PET Food Tray Packaging

Evertis

Indorama Ventures Public Co. and Evertis are collaborating to use flake from recycled PET trays to produce PET film suitable for food packaging trays.

April 4, 2023

Flexible packaging

Pros and Cons of Mono and Multi-Layer Materials for Packaging

This video looks at the pros and cons of mono and multi-layer materials as a sustainable packaging choice, and provides examples and descriptions of each.

March 29, 2023