Bio-based

Crocs is First to Use Algae-Based Ink in CMYK Packaging

The footwear brand’s Jibbitz shoe-charm packaging is the first commercial project to swap petroleum-based carbon black for an algae-derived pigment for black ink in full-color printing.

September 11, 2025

Additives, coatings & inks

Workforce

PPG Appoints Meghan Barrera as Global Strategic Marketing Director, Packaging Coatings

PPG Industries

Barrera will leverage her two decades of experience in various roles across PPG to drive growth and innovation.

September 10, 2025

Recycling

Material Innovations Seek to Close the Loop

At the 2025 Packaging Recycling Summit, speakers share how they’re tackling the tricky balance between performance and recyclability in new packaging materials, including barrier coatings for paper, molded fiber bottles, and PCR stretch film.

August 22, 2025

Additives, coatings & inks

Siegwerk Strengthens Its Coating Business by Acquiring Chemicals Producer Allinova

Siegwerk

With the acquisition of the Dutch coating specialist Allinova, Siegwerk is further boosting its packaging coating business, taking another step on its path to becoming a leading provider of circular and digital packaging solutions.

August 13, 2025

Additives, coatings & inks

Allinova

August 13, 2025

Case/Tray Packing

Cyklop Italy Earns Brand Reputation Compliance Global Standards Certification for Food Packaging Materials

Cyklop

The certification validates Cyklop's adherence to global standards for product safety, quality, and operational criteria in food-contact packaging.

July 30, 2025

Additives, coatings & inks

Michelman Names Recipients of $750,000 Donation Pledge

Michelman Inc.

The 75th Anniversary contribution supports global organizations advancing STEM, environmental stewardship, and social impact.

June 19, 2025

Additives, coatings & inks

Kalpana Systems

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

Additives, coatings & inks

Colored by INX Can Design Contest Entries Due 4/28

INX International Ink Co.

The Colored by INX Can Design Contest invites brand owners and designers to showcase their most creative uses of the INX Color Catalog for a chance to win.

April 18, 2025

Bio-based

Living Ink Secures Funding for Pigment Made from Biomass Waste

Living Ink Technologies

Living Ink has received $3 million in investment to scale its technology that converts algae and other biomass waste into Algae Black, a renewable and carbon-negative alternative to petroleum-derived carbon black.

April 16, 2025

Additives, coatings & inks

CelluComp Expands Operations with a U.S. Manufacturing Facility

CelluComp

The manufacturing facility in Renville, Minnesota will produce Curran, a micro-fibrillated cellulose product derived from sugar beet pulp, intended as a sustainable alternative to plastics and PFAS in fiber-based packaging.

March 28, 2025

Bio-based

Fedrigoni Invests in Papkot

Fedrigoni Group

The collaboration between Fedrigoni and Papkot aims to provide large-scale access to sustainable, plastic-free packaging alternatives for major consumer brands by leveraging Papkot's coating technology.

March 14, 2025