The cannabis market is expanding rapidly. About one third of US residents live in a state with access to recreational cannabis, and 37 states allow medical cannabis. In Canada and Mexico, marijuana is legal for...

“As soon as we saw what’s possible with extended color gamut production using KODAK FLEXCEL NX Plates, we knew we’d found the perfect tool to improve manufacturing time and reduce costs, without compromising on quality.”...

A roughly $350 million proposal to transform West Michigan waste into roofing materials, fertilizer and renewable energy has cleared an important hurdle. On Thursday, the Kent County Board of Public Works approved a project development...

As we covered in our annual Executive Forecast for 2022, the pandemic may not be at the forefront of everyone’s minds directly, but its ripple effects are still spreading outward. Those ripples are impacting the...

While most people abhor when food is wasted, that doesn’t stop food waste from being one of the biggest contributors to environmental concerns. The United States Department of Agriculture estimates that 31% of food is...

ProAmpac, a leader in flexible packaging and material science, has made its fresh food to-go HandRap™ products available for online ordering from quantities as low as 500 with option for full-scale production. “ProAmpac realized there...

C-P Flexible Packaging, a leader in the flexible packaging industry, announces the acquisition of privately held Bass Flexible Packaging, Inc. (Bass). With the addition of Bass, C-P expands into the highly attractive confectionary and health...

Italy-based flexible and rigid packaging supplier Gualapack SpA is opening a sales office in Miami, Florida, that will serve customers in the U.S and Canada. In a statement, company officials said the new office –...

H.B. Fuller Company, a leading global adhesives provider, announced that they have recently joined the 4evergreen alliance, a cross-industry alliance hosted by the Confederation of European Paper Industries (Cepi) to improve the circularity of fiber-based...

UK Research and Innovation’s (UKRI) Smart Sustainable Plastic Packaging (SSPP) Challenge announced £30m funding for 18 innovative collaborative projects that support the achievement of the UK Plastics Pact and have the potential to alter the...

How has the global printing industry changed? What impact have the pandemic, supply and resource shortages and shifts in demand had on the industry? These and many more questions are illuminated by the 8th Global...

The collaboration will co-fund investigations into how flexible packaging can be best designed to be sorted and recycled. A testing programme will draw on a network of laboratories, universities and industry experts to generate data,...

Baldwin Technology Company Inc. has announced that Oliver Jentschke, an industrial engineer with a long track record as a customer-focused sales leader, has joined the organization as vice president of sales for Europe. His experience...

The Closed Loop Leadership Fund, L.P., a private investment fund managed by Closed Loop Partners (CLP), has led a consortium of investors, including the Partnership Fund for New York City, in acquiring a majority stake...

Flint Group Packaging is excited to announce its participation at the FTA INFOFLEX event on March 14 & 15 in Fort Worth, Texas. The company’s Flexible Packaging, Paper & Board, and Narrow Web teams...

Labels have grown to be one of the overriding factors in marketing a product. It displays crucial information like name, the company it is affiliated with, the ingredients used in it, etc. New techniques to...

The Descartes Systems Group Inc. announced its financial results for its fiscal 2022 fourth quarter (Q4FY22) and year (FY22) ended January 31, 2022. All financial results referenced are in United States (US) currency and, unless...

The Recycling Partnership announced that it has developed a National Recycling Database, offering a comprehensive source for local recycling information across the U.S.  This first-of-its-kind database, and the community outreach and product design tools based...

Davis-Standard, LLC will market the company’s nonwovens and converting solutions technology at booth #2604 during Techtextil North America on May 17- 19, 2022, in Atlanta, Georgia. Davis-Standard offers a range of performance technology for high-volume fabric coating...

Cosmo Films Ltd., a global leader in specialty films for flexible packaging, labeling, and lamination applications as well as synthetic paper, has launched a white Cast Polypropylene (CPP) Film with high Coefficient of Friction (COF)....

Sun Chemical and its parent company, the DIC Corporation, will amend their existing transportation surcharge. In addition, and in order to reflect cost dynamics in the global energy market, an energy surcharge on the entire Color...

The West Virginia Senate has approved a bill without opposition designed to encourage advanced recycling. The Senate voted 33-0 without debate Tuesday to advance House Bill 4084, which would clarify the state does not consider...

Comexi, a specialist in solutions for the flexible packaging printing and converting industry, will set up a showroom in the Middle East as a result of an agreement reached with Madayn Plastic Company. The Omani...

ProAmpac, a leader in flexible packaging and material science, opens Natural Products Expo West at Booth N1916 with an emphasis on recyclable packaging innovation, highlighting its numerous ProActive Recyclable solutions. In addition, ProAmpac will be...

Five of Europe’s largest food manufacturers have formed the Flexible Packaging Initiative, a joint scheme to promote circularity in flexible packaging. Plastic pollution is a pervasive global problem. In the European Union, regulators hope to...

For the past 40 years, Clear Film Printing has been building its reputation as the go-to specialist of flexible packaging mainly for the fresh food industry. Operating out of its manufacturing facility in Kaufman, TX,...

Montalvo, an international specialist in Web Tension Control and Web Handling, is proud to publish its latest technical in-depth article about the Importance of Tension Control. In this article, Montalvo covers what Web Tension is,...

On the heels of last year's widely-successful inaugural Sterile Packaging Day event, the Sterilization Packaging Manufacturers Council (SPMC) invites the industry to celebrate Sterile Packaging Day 2022 on Wednesday, April 13. This year's celebration theme...