Sustainability

Smart Plastic Technologies, Munchkin, Inc. Announce Partnership

Smart Plastic Technologies and Munchkin, Inc. signed an exclusive joint development agreement to create baby lifestyle products using Smart Plastic’s patent-pending ECLIPSE™ technology.

January 27, 2022

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Sustainable Packaging

PLASTICS Issues Statement on Plastics Pact

Plastics Industry Association (PLASTICS)

Tony Radoszewski, President and CEO of the Plastics Industry Association (PLASTICS), weights in on Plastics Pact.

January 27, 2022

Labels

Multi-component Pack Checks All the Boxes for DIY Berry Yogurt Parfaits

With an existing 4-oz Chobani PP yogurt pack format as a starting point, berry parfait product collaborator Naturipe worked backward and reverse-engineered an optimized PET cup and closure that nests components and seals them into a single package.

January 26, 2022

Containers

Paper Tube Differentiates a Unique Brand of Cannabis

Live-rosin cannabis maker äkta, one of only two in the space that is single-source, selects a paper tube package for its vape cartridges and concentrates for its sustainability and approachable design.

January 26, 2022

PMMI News

Exhibitor Sales Pushing PACK EXPO East 2022 to Near Record Size

March's show has already surpassed the size of the last two PACK EXPO East events in 2018 and 2020, offering solutions unmatched at a regional event.

January 25, 2022

Sustainability

Evanesce Makes Key Appointments to Management Team

Evanesce

Sustainable packaging technology company, Evanesce, added Angela Rodenburgh as Global Vice President of Marketing and promoted David Chaplin to Director of Operations for Manufacturing, overseeing its South Carolina and Nevada facilities.

January 24, 2022

Sustainable Packaging

Report: Innovative New Sustainable Packaging at PACK EXPO Las Vegas

PMMI Media Group editors fanned out across the many booths at PACK EXPO Las Vegas to bring you this Innovations Report. Here’s what they saw in the sustainable packaging category.

January 23, 2022

Sustainability

Cortec Corp.’s EcoWrap® Stretch Film Receives Industrial Compostability Certification

Cortec Corporation

Cortec received the OK compost INDUSTRIAL certificate from TÜV Austria that certifies its Eco Wrap® conforms to the criteria for industrial compostability under EN 13432 (European equivalent of ASTM D6400).

January 21, 2022

Flexible packaging

Printpack and Sirane Announce Strategic Partnership

Printpack

Printpack, a manufacturer of flexible and specialty rigid packaging announces a strategic partnership with Sirane, a UK-based manufacturer of paper coating and paper-based packaging.

January 20, 2022

Sustainable Packaging

Naturally Done: Plant-Based Take Out Containers and Compostable Innovations

ThePackHub

See a few examples of plant-based and compostable packaging innovations from ThePackHub’s January Packaging Innovation Briefing Report.

January 20, 2022

Sustainability

Eastman Investing up to $1 Billion to Accelerate Circular Economy

Eastman Chemical Co.

The company is building world’s largest material-to-material molecular plastics recycling facility, which is projected to handle up to 160,000 metric tonnes of hard-to-recycle waste annually.

January 19, 2022

Sustainable Packaging

Pack Green Coalition Launches

Pack Green Coalition

The new sustainable packaging initiative will seek to replace unnecessary plastic from the food and beverage and packaging supply chains.

January 19, 2022

Flexible packaging

Kilmer Innovations in Packaging Tackles 'Wicked Problems' in Med Device Sterility

KiiP is an industry initiative ‘solving wicked problems in healthcare packaging.’ They’re gathering passionate team members to tackle nebulous topics, ultimately improving patient safety.

January 19, 2022