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Global packaging leader and educator Keith Pearson to join Packaging & Processing Hall of Fame

When Keith Pearson accepted the World Packaging Organisation presidency in 2006, the International Packaging Press Organisation noted it was the first time that a WPO president came from Africa. At the time, IPPO pointed out that Pearson was “strongly committed to educational matters, and to helping spread knowledge of packaging to the third world.”

September 18, 2018

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Phoenix Technologies identifies ideal recycled bottle content to help meet sustainability objectives

According to Phoenix Technologies International, 50% rPET is the ideal recycled bottle content to help meet sustainability objectives and avoid compromising the recycling stream for future lifecycles.

September 18, 2018

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Hall of Fame returns

After a brief hiatus, PMMI will again be honoring industry professionals via the Packaging & Processing Hall of Fame. Here, we introduce the Class of 2018.

September 4, 2018

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Ever-evolving PACK EXPO International reinvents itself again

The biggest event in packaging this year is drawing into its substantial orbit a host of all-new educational tracks, events, and activities to join the established curriculum of tried-and-true programs.

September 4, 2018

Controls & Machine Components

Mitsubishi Electric: Make smart machines even smarter

Mitsubishi Electric Automation, Inc., introduces Pak/iQTM a comprehensive portfolio of packaging products designed to improve the performance and lower the total cost of deploying smart packaging machines.

August 22, 2018

Sustainability

Corrugated plays pivotal role in e-commerce supply chain equation

The packaging industry needs to get a clear picture of where the growth is, and the public needs to learn about environmental footprint.

August 13, 2018

Sustainable Packaging

Bolder sustainable packaging commitments from Kraft Heinz

Company aims to make 100% of its packaging recyclable, reusable, or compostable by 2025 and increase its use of recycled materials, and pledges to set science-based GHG reduction targets.

August 4, 2018

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The ground has shifted, in a bad way

If anyone asks you in the next few months what the big new legal trend affecting packaging is, I suggest you tell them it’s the “Worldwide Plastics Smackdown.”

August 3, 2018

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Will Plastics Pact tide wash over American shores?

In a move that hasn’t gone unnoticed here in the U.S., the Ellen MacArthur Foundation in England, collaborating with the British NGO WRAP (Waste and Resources Action Programme), has launched a global environmental initiative to address “the root causes of plastics pollution.”

August 3, 2018

Sustainable Packaging

PepsiCo commits $10 million to jumpstart residential recycling challenge

All In On Recycling challenge aims to recycle nearly 2 million tons of material, including 7 billion bottles and cans, resulting in a greenhouse gas avoidance of 5.5 million tons of CO2.

July 31, 2018

Sustainable Packaging

Aramark pledges reduction in single-use plastics

The foodservice management company is the latest to disavow single-use plastics, committing to significantly reducing the use of these items across its global operations by 2022.

July 25, 2018

Contract Packaging

Supply chain of the future: ‘Digitize or die’

An event sponsored by contract packaging/manufacturing supply chain software company Nulogy explores the necessity of digitization to meet industry challenges.

July 10, 2018