Plastics/resins

Amcor Completes Combination with Berry Global

Amcor's all-stock combination with Berry Global expands its capabilities in consumer and healthcare packaging to advance product development and sustainability efforts.

May 2, 2025

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Labeling

UPM Raflatac Offers Product Footprints in Customer Quotes

UPM Adhesive Materials

The company is providing label converters with transparent environmental data, including Scope 3 emissions information, directly within customer quotes through their product passport prototypes.

May 2, 2025

Digital Printing

SupplyOne Bolsters Northwest Region, Adds Digital Printing with Acquisition of The BoxMaker

SupplyOne

The newest addition to the SupplyOne portfolio is a national expert in digital packaging production and distribution, including custom boxes, retail displays, and product labels.

May 1, 2025

Wrapping

Mars' Kind is Next in Line with Curbside Recyclable Paper Wrapper

The repulpable paper used to flow-wrap these bars is a curbside recyclable, How2Recycle pre-qualified paper film supplied by Printpack. The move is more evidence of a growing global, now national trend toward paper films able to run on existing equipment.

May 1, 2025

Adhesives/tape

H.B. Fuller Announces 2025 Customer Innovation Awards Winners

H.B. Fuller

H.B. Fuller recognized four companies – CMC Packaging Automation, Georgia-Pacific, Changzhou Xingyu, and MITER Brands – for their use of the company's adhesive technologies to advance sustainability, performance, and efficiency in their industries.

April 28, 2025

Cartoning

Elopak Opens First U.S. Sustainable Packaging Plant

Elopak

Norwegian company's new Little Rock, Arkansas, facility will produce Pure-Pak cartons, creating 100 jobs and expanding its presence in the Americas.

April 24, 2025

Containers & Closures

Paper Cup Marries Finnish Licorice with Forest Innovation

From forest to shelf, a new package from Finnish licorice maker Kouvolan Lakritsi delivers a circular economy story rooted in regenerative forestry, renewable materials, and collaborative design.

April 23, 2025

Containers & Closures

Plastic Ingenuity Achieves Silver Medal EcoVadis Sustainability Rating

Plastic Ingenuity, Inc.

The company's commitment to environmental, social, and ethical sustainability practices placed it in the top 15% of companies assessed.

April 21, 2025

Bio-based

TotalEnergies Corbion and Useon Partner to Accelerate Industrial Adoption of PLA Foam Technology

TotalEnergies Corbion

EPLA is a sustainable, plant-based foam material made from Luminy PLA as an alternative to expanded polystyrene.

April 21, 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

Podcasts

Through the Line Podcast: Sustainable and Recyclable Blisters for Pharmaceuticals

As environmental concerns for PVC-based blisters rise, how can the pharmaceutical industry transition to alternative materials? Sustainable blisters take material selection, quality regulations, machinability, and printability into account.

April 18, 2025

Bio-based

Compostable Molded Fiber Cup, Plant-based Lidding for School Cafeterias

School lunch fresh fruit and vegetable distributor DNO Produce launches K-12 school cafeteria fruit cups that features molded fiber bases and plant-based lidding film from Eco-Products. The package is industrially compostable.

April 16, 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