Plastics/resins

Carol Lowe Joins Novolex Board of Directors

Carol Lowe, Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of FLIR Systems Inc., joined the Board of Directors of Novolex.

April 5, 2021

Leaders (UNIVERSAL TAXONOMY PW): Page 464

Sustainable Packaging

15 Sustainable Packaging Innovations to Watch

New sustainable packages, including those made from oat hulls and cocoa bean byproduct, refillable and reusable packaging for cosmetics, hand sanitizer, and deodorant, and other innovations, are the focus of webinar from ThePackHub.

April 5, 2021

Contract Packaging

CPA President: Many Value-Added Opportunities in 2021

Mark O’Malley, CPA President, shares news on the many educational programs offered to members this year, including Nulogy University, Virtual Experience webinars, and more.

April 5, 2021

Sustainable Packaging

A Nestle First in Recycled Content

Nestle and a coalition of companies have collaborated to produce what they are calling Australia’s first flexible film food wrapper made with recycled content.

April 5, 2021

Flexible packaging

Elevate Packaging’s Compostable Adhesive Label Received BPI Certification

Elevate Packaging

Elevate Packaging announces its PURE Labels MC White compostable pressure sensitive adhesive labels are the first to be BPI certified, including full-color printing and coatings.

April 5, 2021

Flexibles

Maxwell House Says Compostable Coffee Pods: ‘Good to the Last Drop. And Long After.’

Bringing circularity to a traditionally wasteful package, TC Transcontinental Packaging took a Gold Award in Sustainability for its 100% industrially compostable single-serve coffee pod.

April 4, 2021

Flexibles

Colorful Seal Assurance Supports EU MDR for Device Packaging

The FPA awarded PAXXUS a Gold Award in Expanding the Use of Flexible Packaging for its Chameleon for Tyvek.

April 3, 2021

Capping

Fogg Filler Offers Cost-Saving Sanitizing Technology

Fogg Filler, a ProMach product brand

Fogg Filler's closed-looped Ultrazone O4®sanitizing solution can perform at a 3 - 6+ log reduction, resulting in a near-aseptic rinse for bottles.

April 2, 2021

Sustainability

The Estée Lauder Companies Signs Global MOU With Eastman

Eastman Chemical Co.

The Estée Lauder Companies (ELC) and specialty materials provider Eastman announced a global MOU that will enable ELC to reach its 2025 sustainable packaging goals.

April 2, 2021

Sustainability

Steven Voorhees Receives Paperboard Packaging Council’s Lifetime Achievement Award

Paperboard Packaging Council

The Paperboard Packaging Council selected Steven C. Voorhees, former CEO of WestRock, as the recipient of its 2021 Robert T. Gair Award.

April 2, 2021

Controls & machine components

nVent Electric Acquires Vynckier Enclosures

nVent Electric plc

nVent Electric plc acquired all the assets of Vynckier Enclosure Systems, Inc. The Vynckier product line is now part of nVent’s Enclosures business segment.

April 2, 2021

Sustainability

Brands Look to Bio-Plastics to Replace Some Fossil-Based Plastic

Cucina Fresca and Lamb Weston are both replacing portions of their existing plastic packaging to bio-based materials. Watch our "Take Five with Packaging World" video to learn more about this industry shift to more sustainable materials.

April 2, 2021

Material handling

SourceHUB Launches Rapid Global Supply Response Program

SourceHUB

SourceHUB, a provider of a collaborative technology platform for packaging procurement, launched its Rapid Global Supply Response Program to help address increasing demands in the midst of global packaging supply chain strain and disruption.

April 2, 2021