Flexibles

Printpack Wins Three Flexible Packaging Association Awards

Printpack is pleased to announce that it has been awarded three Flexible Packaging Association awards.

March 26, 2020

Plastics/resins: Page 59

Sustainable Packaging

Fighting Back Against Anti-Plastics Legislation

At the CPA Annual Meeting, FPA President Alison Keane shares how the organization is working to help shape legislation around plastic packaging, rather than just react to it.

March 26, 2020

Operational Excellence

Popularity of Cannabis Formats Evolving, Packaging Follows Suit

Dried flower is giving way to creams, gels, dried teas/powders and inhalers, products that doubled in growth in two years’ time. Packaging for cannabis is expanding to meet this growth.

March 25, 2020

Plastics/resins

Premium, Single-Origin Instant Coffee is Totally Tubular

Boston area-based specialty coffee roaster introduces an instant coffee product produced using a new freeze-drying process and packaged in a PP tube that provides a nine-month shelf life.

March 24, 2020

Plastics/resins

Plastics Association Calls for Industry-Wide Shelter in Place Exclusion

Plastics Industry Association (PLASTICS)

The Plastics Industry Association President and CEO Tony Radoszewski issued a statement today requesting all local, state, and federal governments to include plastic resin and plastic product manufacturers as “essential” in order to stay open.

March 23, 2020

Flexibles

2020 FPA Silver Winners

List of the 2020 FPA Silver Winners.

March 18, 2020

Sustainable Packaging

Flexible Film and the Circular Economy

Peter Fallat, Director of Global Design & Packaging at Hill’s Pet Nutrition, a Colgate-Palmolive company, discusses how flexible films fit into the drive for more sustainable packaging.

March 10, 2020

Sustainable Packaging

Milwaukee Brewers, S.C. Johnson, Model Circular Economy

By both reducing waste and educating the public about the possibility of a circular economy, this brand and baseball partnership sends a hopeful message.

March 9, 2020

Plastics/resins

IML for Tomato Packs

As demand for on-the-go packaging continues to grow, a new tomato container featuring in-mold labeling is catching consumers’ eyes in European markets.

March 6, 2020

Flexibles

Compatibilizer Makes Pouch Recycle-Ready

Winner of a Gold Award for Packaging Excellence plus a Silver Award for Sustainability and another Silver for Technical Innovation in the annual Flexible Packaging Achievement Awards Competition was a standup pouch for pet food treats.

March 5, 2020

Flexibles

AeroFlexx Named Top FPA Award Winner

Described as the “perfect e-commerce package” yet perfectly suitable for brick-and-mortar channels as well, the winner of the Highest Achievement Award in the 64th Annual Flexible Packaging Achievement Awards Competition is AeroFlexx.

March 5, 2020

Sustainable Packaging

Live From PACK EXPO East: Mono-Materials Still Trending

Here at the Philadelphia show, converters and machinery builders alike are taking notice and advantage of brand owners' rekindled love for easily recycled mono-materials films and resins.

March 4, 2020

Plastics/resins

Pretium Packaging Invests in EBM Equipment

Pretium Packaging

Pretium Packaging, a manufacturer of plastic containers and closures, made a $3 million dollar investment in new HDPE extrusion blow molding equipment and infrastructure for its Leipsic, Ohio manufacturing plant.

February 27, 2020