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

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Sustainable Packaging

Opinion: COVID-19 Swings “Reusable” from Good to Bad

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

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

Flexible packaging

FPA Addresses Essential Manufacturing in Light of COVID-19 Crisis

Flexible Packaging Association

FPA requests certain clarity with respect to federal, state, and local guidelines and mandates.

March 23, 2020

Closures

Tecnocap Announces Joint Venture with Oricon Enterprises

Tecnocap

Tecnocap entered into a joint agreement with Oricon Enterprise to manufacture lug caps.

March 18, 2020

Flexibles

2020 FPA Silver Winners

List of the 2020 FPA Silver Winners.

March 18, 2020

Flexibles

Limited-Edition Pouch for Tour de France Features 10,000 Unique Designs

Digital printing has emerged as the primary tool for creating personalized packaging for limited editions, helping Consumer Packaged Goods companies better engage and connect with consumers and generate excitement around their brands.

March 16, 2020

Flexibles

“4D” Bag Combines Best of Rigid, Flexible

Landing itself a Gold Award for Shelf Impact, global film manufacturer Uflex Limited developed a brick-shaped, all panel registered bag/pouch with a handle and re-closable option that can either stand on a shelf or lie down in a stack or on a pallet.

March 13, 2020

Flexibles

Colorful Seal Verification Technology for Medical Device Packaging

Winning an FPA Gold Award in Technical Innovation, Insura™ Seal Verification technology from Amcor Healthcare Packaging offers a “colorful” option for the countless medical device packages that undergo visual inspection.

March 12, 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

Closures

The Manufacturing Institute to Honor Meena Banasiak, Phoenix Inc.

Phoenix

The Manufacturing Institute announced that it will award Meena Banasiak a Women in Manufacturing STEP Ahead Award on April 30 in Washington, D.C.

March 9, 2020