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Industry Watch - July 2013
A quick run-down on the latest supplier news, expansions, mergers, and people.
July 1, 2013
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Industry Watch
A quick run-down on the latest supplier news, mergers, expansions, and people.
June 3, 2013
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Industry Watch
A quick run-down on the latest supplier news, mergers, expansions, and people.
February 28, 2013
Flexibles
2013 FPA Silver Award Winners
Following are the 2013 FPA Silver Award winners.
February 27, 2013
Campbell’s Skillet Sauces - Ampac
Flexibles
Innovation is king
The winning entries of the Flexible Packaging Association’s 57th annual Flexible Packaging Achievement Awards feature innovative enhancements that integrate consumer trends and needs with technical advancements in materials, graphics, structure, and sustainability to produce outstanding flexible packaging solutions. In all, 78 flexible packages were submitted into the 2013 competition by 29 flexible packaging companies. Of those, 25 packages will be honored with 29 FPA Flexible Packaging Achievement Awards within one or more categories including Packaging Excellence, Printing Achievement, Technical Innovation, and Environmental & Sustainability Achievement.
February 27, 2013
Kraft YES Pack for 1-gal portions of salad dressing used in foodservice institutions received the Highest Achievement Award in the 2013 Flexible Packaging Achievement Awards.
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January 30, 2013
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ConAgra speaks to the future of innovation
Mark Yunker, principal packaging engineer, Research, Quality and Innovation, for ConAgra Foods, offers insights from more than 30 years in the business and provides packaging suppliers with some valuable suggestions.
January 27, 2012
Mark Yunker, principal packaging engineer, ConAgra Foods.
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Scott Byrne (center right), VP of global sustainability at Sonoco, described how converters are taking on a central role in helping brand owners (deemed producers under EPR) gather that information.
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Converters and brand owners are mapping packaging composition in unprecedented detail. Accurate data is becoming the foundation for EPR compliance, recycled-content targets, and future package design.
Jeff Fielkown (left), CEO of the Circular Action Alliance, and Lynn Dyer, Executive Director of AMERIPEN, agree that when EPR is done carefully, with adherence across brand producers, recycled material end markets can look a lot more stable and attractive.
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