An audit conducted by ENAC at the AIMPLAS laboratories has enabled AIMPLAS to expand its scope of accreditation for standard UNE 53928:2020 on Plastics. Reusable plastic tableware for food use. This standard regulates product labelling...

In partnership with Smart Plastic Technologies, Sigma Stretch announced they are expanding the production of Sigma Stretch VANISH, powered by SPTek ECLIPSE™ bio-assimilation technology, to all five production facilities across North America. The initial launch...

Kendall Packaging Corporation, a provider of high-quality flexible packaging solutions serving a variety of markets inside the food, personal care, and pet food industries, announced that David Roche has been promoted to CFO at the...

Fedrigoni Self-Adhesives’ vision for the future is to increase the volume of advanced Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) solutions in its product portfolio from 35% to 70% by 2030. In an effort to work toward...

Americans for Free Trade (AFT), a broad coalition of American businesses, trade organizations, and workers united against tariffs sent a letter to United States Trade Representative Katherine Tai expressing strong support for a fully transparent...

When Packaging Personified was established nearly 50 years ago, its founder Dominic Imburgia initiated core tenets that still resonate today: quality, service, commitment, investment, innovation, and a broad customer base. While the packaging industry has...

All American Label & Packaging has merged with Western Shield Label and Packaging, a leading provider of pressure-sensitive prime labels and packaging solutions to the food & beverage, health & beauty, and industrials sectors. Western...

As the packaging industry continues to grow and adapt to the very real threats of today, supply chain volatility, labor shortages and rising consumable and energy costs all underline that converters need to accelerate their...

ePac Flexible Packaging, with a mission to help small and medium sized enterprises grow while being accretive to the communities it serves, has turned its sights on Ghana, Africa. With plans to soon put into...

The California Chamber of Commerce and the organizations listed respectfully OPPOSE UNLESS AMENDED AB 2026 (Friedman), as amended. We agree that increased efforts, including packaging redesign, substantial financial investments in infrastructure, and the formation of...

U.S. Senators Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.), Ranking Member of the Senate Environment and Public Works (EPW) Committee, Tom Carper (D-Del.), Chairman of the EPW Committee, and John Boozman (R-Ark.), also a member of the EPW...

The Flexible Packaging Association (FPA), the leading advocate and voice for the growing U.S. flexible packaging industry, is pleased to announce the winners of its 66th Annual Flexible Packaging Achievement Awards Competition. The winning entries...

Comexi, a specialist in solutions for the flexible packaging printing and converting industry, and Bomplastic, a company that specializes in practical and innovative solutions for the flexible packaging sector, have reached an agreement for the...

To support the shift to renewable and recyclable materials in shopping and takeaway bags, Stora Enso launches CarrEco Brown™. Made from 100% fresh fibers, the material has high strength and tear resistance properties and is...

Recycling is our state’s greatest team effort. Millions of New York residents, including those here in Onondaga County, set out or drop off their newspapers, magazines, cardboard boxes, plastic bottles, metal cans and glass jars...

Plenty of brands have already announced their 2025 goals for increasing recycled content in their packaging, but supply of postconsumer recycled resin will likely fall short of the 2025 demand, said speakers at the Plastics...

Huhtamaki’s drive for innovations in sustainability is exemplified with the acquisition of Elif, a prominent enterprise in the flexible packaging business whose products are already nearly all recyclable. Their technologies in flexo printing and polyethylene...

The result of this cooperation will be a one-of-a-kind flexible film printed by waterless EB offset which could be used in different packaging solutions. As the first example, Chemosvit and Toray revealed a new mono-material...

Google published its latest plastic circularity report, finding that both chemical and mechanical recycling will be needed to close the “plastics circularity gap” by 2040. The tech giant also pointed to taxing virgin plastics to...

A new report from Finland’s Technical Research Center (VTT), “Recycling Food Packaging”, highlights those technology solutions expected to become commercially available in the next five years and says partnerships are essential to deliver the necessary...

Parkside, a UK-based flexible packaging specialist, has appointed three new members to its board as the business experiences significant international growth. The board expansion has added close to 100 years of industry experience to the...

Dow, the world’s leading materials science company, and Plastogaz SA, a technology start-up and proprietor of an advanced recycling technology, have announced a strategic investment, which will help to simplify the process of converting plastic...

The Flexible Packaging Association (FPA) is submitting testimony in opposition to HB 2399, “Relating to Waste Management,” which would establish and extended producer responsibility act for packaging and paper.

ALTANA closed the 2021 fiscal year with record results. Sales rose by 22% to €2,667 million (previous year: €2,178 million). As a result, the specialty chemicals group achieved its strongest growth in the past 10...

Road debris. Ocean debris. It’s plastic pollution and it’s everywhere! All we need to do to fix the litter problem (and apparently also solve climate change) is ban single-use plastics! Not so fast… I just...

ACTEGA, manufacturer of specialty coatings, inks, adhesives and sealing compounds for the print and packaging industry, announces a number of significant goals achieved as it continues to progress its exacting plans to make advances in...

According to estimates by the European Tyre and Rubber Manufacturers Association (ETRMA), up to four million tonnes of end-of-life tyres are generated each year in Europe and Spain alone accounts for 300,000 tonnes. Most of...

The Maryland General Assembly is leading an effective, sensible, collaborative approach to packaging producer responsibility legislation to develop an effective circular economy for recycling in the state. Packaging producer responsibility legislation is a policy framework...