Sustainable Packaging

Dow Diamond Finalist: Truman’s Concentrated Cleaning Products

Truman’s products give even entrenched home cleaner consumers a convincing reason to make the pivot from retail display case RTU spray bottles to a more sustainable e-comm model that eliminates the need to 'ship water.'

October 2, 2019

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Records fall at PACK EXPO Las Vegas & Healthcare Packaging EXPO 2019

The year’s biggest packaging show in the world does not disappoint

October 2, 2019

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Dow's 2019 Awards for Packaging Innovation—Gold and Silver

The following are the 2019 Gold and Silver award winners.

October 2, 2019

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Packaging’s Shift to Plants

Packaging change is always driven by an interplay of market forces: Economics, evolving machinery and materials technologies, customer preferences and value perceptions, regulations, and corporate social responsibility among them.

October 2, 2019

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SFO Bottle Ban?

Effective Aug. 20, San Francisco Airport (SFO) banned single-use plastic (read PET) water bottles.

October 2, 2019

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AWT Labels & Packaging recommits to PIM Great Printer Partnership

Printing Industry Midwest (PIM) has certified AWT Labels & Packaging under PIM’s “Great Printer” environmental initiative for the eleventh straight year.

October 1, 2019

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Paperboard System is Lightweight, Recyclable and Designed for Child-Resistance

Currently undergoing child-resistance testing, the recloseable packaging system protects cannabis products.

October 1, 2019

Sustainable Packaging

Dow Diamond Finalist: Amcor’s Paperly

Charcupac, a French meat and charcuterie slicing and packaging specialist in Ars-sur-Moselle, is among the first to commercialize a new thermoformable material from Amcor called Paperly.

October 1, 2019

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Dai Nippon Printing wins Dow’s Diamond

Dow announced the winners of the 2019 Awards for Packaging Innovation. The nine Diamond Award Finalists are varied and cover very different verticals, but a simultaneously practical and altruistic attitude toward sustainability is a common thread that unites them.

September 27, 2019

Protective/transport packaging

Wax Replacement Protective Packaging

DS Smith's Greencoat is a coated, water-resistant packaging solution that provides the same performance characteristics as wax-coated boxes but is 100% recyclable.

September 26, 2019

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Major-Player Partnership Produces Monolayer, 100% PE Pouches

Mespack, Dow, and TC Transcontinental join forces to deliver a 100% mono-material, recycling-friendly pouch.

September 25, 2019

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Side Sealer Handles Sustainable New Materials

Side sealer handles multiple film substrates, including new recycle-stream friendly resins and even compostable biopolymers.

September 25, 2019

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Stand-Up Pouch is Recyclable Without Sacrificing Performance

The Entour packaging line’s nine-layer coextruded film structure allows for front-of-store recycling while driving performance with oxygen and moisture barriers.

September 25, 2019