Conveying & accumulation

Eriez® Celebrates 80 Years in Business

The Eriez story began in 1942 when founder O.F. Merwin installed a permanent magnet in a grain mill. Today, the company has a workforce of more than 900 individuals located throughout 12 wholly owned international subsidiaries on six continents.

April 7, 2022

Leaders (UNIVERSAL TAXONOMY PW): Page 275

Contract Packaging

Budelpack Develops Custom ‘Co-Packing On-Demand’ Line for Meal-Kit Company

Netherlands food co-packer Budelpack engineers a new packaging line driven by a custom software system that delivers pouched meal-kit ingredients on-demand, with no pause in production.

April 6, 2022

Sustainability

Aptar, PureCycle Achieve Testing Milestone with Ultra-Pure Recycled Plastic

Aptar

AptarGroup announced its progress in testing and transforming PureCycle Technologies’ Ultra-Pure recycled (UPR) plastic.

April 6, 2022

Filling/capping, liquid & viscous

Rose Graffin Appointed Chairman of the Board and Président Directeur Général of Serac Holding

Serac Inc

Graffin was appointed to the position of Chairman of the Board & Président Directeur Général following the untimely passing of Andre JJ Graffin, who was the founder and Chairman of the Board for Serac Holding since its inception over 50 years ago.

April 5, 2022

Flexible packaging

Marie Samuelsson Appointed CEO of Ecolean

Ecolean

Samuelsson will assume the CEO role on June 1, 2022 following Peter L Nilsson’s planned retirement after more than 15 years with the company.

April 5, 2022

Flexibles

Digital and Flexographic Printing Create Appealing Birdseed Package

Creating a fresh, pest-free seed product can be a challenge since insect eggs and larva can be hard to detect when seeds and grains are being harvested and then packaged. A window in this pouch lets a consumer know that the contents are indeed pest-free.

March 24, 2022

Filling/capping, liquid & viscous

Lion Beverage to Open New Beverage Canning Facility

Lion Beverage

The new 250,000 sq ft facility will feature two new state-of-the-art canning lines capable of producing 1600 cans/min, warehouse space for raw and finished goods, as well as a repack area.

April 5, 2022

Sustainable Packaging

Sustainable Packaging TODAY: Personal Care

Looking for sustainable personal care packaging available today? U.K. sustainable packaging expert Paul Jenkins of the PackHub and Packaging World’s Matt Reynold discuss real-world applications you can find on the shelf.

April 5, 2022

Sustainable Packaging

Mars Petcare Retort Pouches use Certified Circular PP

For its Sheba brand wet cat food pouch, Mars Petcare uses polypropylene produced through advanced recycling; the film is both food-safe and retortable.

April 4, 2022

Sustainability

Sigma Plastics to Expand Production of its VANISH Film Powered by Smart Plastic’s SPTek ECLIPSE

Smart Plastic Technologies

Sigma Stretch is expanding production of its stretch film to all five of its production facilities across North America and Canada.

April 4, 2022

Flexibles

High Quality Gold Print Earns Gold Award in Printing

Repêchage and its suppliers leaned into the gold theme with high-quality flexographic printing satisfying the prestige-brand appearance, coincidentally earning them an FPA Gold Award for Digital Printing.

March 24, 2022

Sustainability

Unilever, Kao Corp., and Uni Devise Unique Reusable Body-Care Packaging Systems

Sustainability, ease of use, elegance, guaranteed lifetime use, and whimsical product dispensing are just some of the features found in four new reusable packaging systems for body care.

April 1, 2022

Flexibles

Scrumptiously Printed ‘Box Pouch’ Expands Distribution, Consumer Convenience for Gourmet Popcorn

To expand merchandising options for its tube-packed gourmet popcorn, Popcornopolis introduces a resealable, stand-up box pouch decorated with images of the iconic tubes.

March 24, 2022