Flexible packaging converter Wipak UK has unveiled plans for a £5 million-plus ($6.4m) investment to significantly enhance its capabilities and sustainable product offering. The investment will include state-of-the-art conversion equipment, which will produce flexible packaging...

The lone remaining trace of steelmaking on Pine Avenue SE was purchased for $750,000 by a northern California-based company that manufactures equipment and material for the flexible packaging industry. The office building for the former...

Flint Group Packaging Inks announced the acquisition of Poteet Printing Systems LLC located in Charlotte, North Carolina, USA. This acquisition aligns with a key element of Flint Group Packaging’s strategy to grow not only...

Tanja Dreilich, Managing Director and CFO, will leave the Constantia Flexibles Group by the end of 2020 in order to take on new professional challenges. The CFO tasks will be taken over by Richard Kelsey,...

Ship & Shore Environmental, Inc. (SSE) celebrates twenty years of providing pollution abatement technologies and services to a world in ever greater need of clean air, essential businesses, and safe workspaces. The company, co-founded by...

Polyplex USA announced plans to expand its existing operations in the USA by adding a second Thin BOPET film line with necessary investment to create matching capacity for captive resin. This investment in a second...

H.B. Fuller, the largest pure play global adhesive company, announced it is now a certified member of the Amazon Packaging Support and Supplier (APASS) network. “As a member of the APASS network, we will be...

LLFlex – a global leader in packaging materials and industrial laminate solutions for the consumer packaging, building & construction, and wire & cable industries – has acquired the assets of Hampden Papers, a premium paper...

Wikoff Color is proud to introduce Wikoff Technical Solutions, formerly known as the Technical Service Group. The name change follows an expansion of services and support offered to the printing and converting industry. Beau Snider,...

Coveris announces the acquisition of HLB|SFV, a previously family owned company focused on the manufacturing and sale of various shapes of paper bags but also paper-based flexibles on reels. HLB|SFV is offering the largest high-quality...

The Flexible Packaging Association is pleased to announce that registration for the FPA 2020 Virtual Fall Executive Conference is now open. FPA’s upcoming conference is moving to a digital format and has been split into...

Fedrigoni Group, an Italian manufacturer of papers for packaging and graphics, as well as self-adhesive labelling products, has appointed Luca Zerbini as new managing director of its paper and security division. The choice of Luca...

Massillon, Ohio-based flexible and protective packaging maker Polymer Packaging Inc. is expanding with a three-phase investment in machine purchases and a physical plant expansion due to heightened blown demand from new and existing customers. The...

Scientex Bhd's ambitious plans to enhance its capacity and capabilities for the manufacturing segment is expected to boost earnings for the company in the near future. Affin Hwang Investment Bank Bhd analyst Brian Yeoh said...

Milton Keynes-headquartered Essentra has agreed to buy a US packaging manufacturer for $65m (£50m). 3C! is based in North Carolina and designs and makes custom folding cartons, printed literature, foil and flexible packaging and labels...

The company reaches an agreement with Convert Service and makes the Italian company an official partner that can offer its services to customers in the area. In the past two years, Comexi, a specialist in...

Lt. Gov. Kathleen C. Hochul along with other officials from New York State, Monroe County and local jurisdictions joined ProAmpac CEO, Greg Tucker, to address the start of construction of the company’s Collaboration & Innovation...

Frankston Packaging Company is pleased to announce the successful acquisition of Paco Label Systems. Based in Tyler, Texas, Paco is a leading manufacturer and supplier of flexible packaging and pressure sensitive labels serving Customers in...

Mark McGarel, CEO of FILMtech Inc., was recently highlighted as one of nine unique, dynamic-type CEOs in Plastics News. FILMtech is a longtime FPA member and was the only film, flexible packaging, metallizing manufacturer to...

Bossar, a global leader in design and production of horizontal form-fill-seal equipment for the manufacture of flexible packaging, has announced a major rebranding to reflect the company's focused efforts on sustainable packaging and growing partnership...

Attendee registration is now open for the industry’s most engaging and innovative new web-based event, PACK EXPO Connects 2020, (Nov. 9-13) produced by PMMI Media Group. PACK EXPO Connects delivers the power of PMMI Media...

MacDermid Graphics Solutions has announced the appointment of Jim McClatchy as Director, Global Strategic Accounts. Jim will be responsible for the overall strategic account management and revenue growth for select multi-national strategic accounts for MacDermid...

Ashland is increasing prices on 1-4-Butanediol (BDO) and several derivative products as indicated. The increases apply to North America and are effective October 01, 2020 or as agreements allow.

Power outages caused by Hurricane Laura could delay start-ups at chemical plants until the end of September, long enough to squeeze several markets that are already tight. Chemical companies began shutting down their plants along...

Nelipak® Laboratory Services, a leading provider of healthcare packaging testing for the medical device and pharmaceutical sectors, announced that its Clara, Ireland laboratory has received ISO/IEC 17025 accreditation from the Irish National Accreditation Board (INAB)....

“I am delighted to announce that Emmerson Packaging is the process of investing a further $10 million this year in new equipment for our Amherst and Belleville facilities, in addition to having hired over 80...

The polyethylene terephthalate (PET) is facing new challenges following damages at feedstock monoethylene glycol (MEG) plants. The damages resulted in a force majeure declaration by three MEG producers, which in turn led to a force...

Esko has underlined its commitment to future generations of packaging industry workers with a multi-million dollar in-kind donation to support college and university students in their packaging engineering and technology studies. The global developer of...