Many digital innovations address the growing pressure to increase overall efficiencies and minimize risks within a rapidly evolving supply chain. Supply chain risks have been making headlines recently with the disruptions caused by the coronavirus....

BW Flexible Systems, a global packaging systems manufacturer, is proud to announce the formation of a new South African sales and support team to serve customers in the region. BW Flexible Systems creates flexible packaging...

For the past few years, manufacturers have been concentrating on sustainability efforts as part of a promise to consumers to do their part to help save the environment. Subsequently, PMMI, the Association for Packaging and...

Haze is a critical quality parameter for plastic films, various plastic sheet products and other transparent materials. A film or sheet with a poor visible appearance can be problematic for manufacturers trying to maintain a...

During the first quarter of 2020, our net sales increased by 5% with a comparable sales growth of 3% and improved profitability. This represents solid performance in a quarter that was marked by contrast –...

ProAmpac announced it has joined The Association of Plastic Recyclers. The Association of Plastic Recyclers (APR) is a trade association representing companies responsible for more than 90 percent of the post-consumer plastic processing capacity in...

Packaging specifications are the backbone of your products' packaging system, yet not all companies internalize ownership of their specs. Packaging specifications, aka specs, are the backbone of your product’s packaging system. They are the key...

Circulate Capital invested $6 million in plastics recycling companies in India and Indonesia, the brand-backed firm’s first outlay designed to prevent marine plastics. The Singapore-based investment management company said the money came from its Circulate...

In the 2017 documentary series Blue Planet II, naturalist David Attenborough issues the world a stark challenge. ‘Industrial pollution and the discarding of plastic waste must be tackled for the sake of all life in...

The global pandemic has had a dramatic impact on perceptions of packaging. At the beginning of the year, concerns around ocean plastics, environmental tradeoffs, and challenging recycling economics dominated headlines and created a general skepticism...

Instead of taking CSA members’ cloth bags and returning them filled with fresh vegetables, farmers Jesse Frost and Hannah Crabtree delivered mid-April shares in plastic bags. And for the weekly farmers’ market in Lexington, Kentucky,...

Toppan Printing, a global leader in communication, security, packaging, décor materials, and electronics solutions, has improved user-friendliness while reducing resource use to achieve enhanced environmental performance by developing the paper tube-pouch, a new paper-based version...

ACTEGA is significantly expanding its production capacities for water-based and UV overprint varnishes. As a result, the global production output increases to more than 150,000 tons per year. Around €2 million have been invested...

Inhance Technologies, an international provider of polymer materials science solutions, has announced its barrier packaging technology has been recognised as fully recyclable by two industry-leading organisations. The Association of Plastic Recyclers (APR) and Plastics Recyclers...

The British Plastics Federation (BPF) has announced the launch of new guidelines, Recycled Content Used In Plastic Packaging Applications. According to the BPF, the document provides answers to questions about measuring recycled content and highlights...

New Jersey-based Catalent Biologics says it has completed the $14 million expansion of its Bloomington manufacturing site. The company says the 15,000-square-foot expansion includes five new packaging suites and a laboratory to support its packaging...

The plastic industry is asking Congress for $1 billion to bail out plastic recycling during the coronavirus crisis. “Recycling is an essential service and consumers are demanding products with more recycled content,” an alliance of...

J.P. Mascaro & Sons’ retrofit of its TotalRecycle facility has allowed the company to create new markets for flexible plastic packaging derived from its single-stream curbside recycling program. J.P. Mascaro & Sons, Audubon, Pennsylvania, began...

Paper Converting Machine Company (PCMC), part of Barry-Wehmiller, has launched Smart TOUCH HMI, a new human-machine interface available on Forte tissue converting lines. Following high-performance design principles, PCMC’s Smart TOUCH HMI offers users a clean,...

As the global pandemic continues to elevate both business pressures and public scrutiny on every industry – from healthcare, to retail operations, to personal care services – it has also transformed American attitudes toward an...

Consumers prefer packaging materials made from recycled goods that can also be recycled again, and, according to a new report by PMMI Business Intelligence, as technology improves and more companies invest in sustainable strategies, the...

Three CEOs of leading manufacturers of packaging and processing machinery and equipment met virtually with PMMI to discuss strategies in conducting their operations amid the pandemic affecting today's world.

Efforts to improve on today’s battery technology has scientists turning to all sorts of materials, and in some cases these might come from the eco-friendly end of the spectrum. A new technology out of Purdue...

The world is drowning in plastic. About 60% of the more than 8,700 million metric tonnes of plastic ever made is no longer in use, instead sat mostly in landfill or released to the environment....

Retailers in California can once again hand out free single-use plastic bags under an executive order announced on Thursday by Gov. Gavin Newsom, the latest turn away from reusable bags amid the coronavirus outbreak.

Before the novel coronavirus pandemic took hold, legislation aimed at addressing long-running issues around recycling was gaining more attention than it had in decades. But that momentum has stalled now that state legislatures and Congress...

Mitsubishi HiTec Paper Europe GmbH, with its Bielefeld and Flensburg locations, is the first company in the paper industry to receive the "Safe with a System" seal of approval from the BG RCI: the professional...

Sonoco, one of the largest global diversified packaging companies, announced that on April 22, 2020, it sold $600 million aggregate principal amount of new 3.125% senior unsecured notes maturing May 1, 2030. “We are very...