Packaging Europe has collated views from across the value chain on the current challenges and wider implications of the COVID-19 pandemic for packaging and FMCG. Answers flooded in from across Europe which shed light on...

DuPont Inc. secured $3 billion in financing to help it ride out the coronavirus that has decimated demand in the automotive industry and other end markets. The maker of materials used in car interiors and...

MacDermid Graphics Solutions, a subsidiary of Element Solutions Inc, announced the appointment of Brad Wills as Senior Vice President and General Manager, effective April 13, 2020. Based out of Atlanta, GA, Brad is responsible for...

Sonoco, one of the largest diversified global packaging companies, today reported financial results for its first quarter ending March 29, 2020, and provided an update related to the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the...

Market research firm Wood Mackenzie expects flexible packaging consumption in both Europe and the US to see a material uplift in the short-term. Due to Coronavirus-era stockpiling, lockdowns and the increased need for medical supplies,...

Miraclon is pleased to announce the appointment of Brad Vette as the business’ new Strategic Accounts Manager for the United States and Canada. In his position, Brad will support the wider regional sales team with...

BioLogiQ have signed an agreement with Nexeo Plastics, a global thermoplastic resins distributor, to support the proliferation of their speciality biopolymers in North America, and support those companies that wish to incorporate more sustainable materials...

KM Packaging, the leading provider of specialist lidding films and flexible packaging, has strengthened its team as part of its wider growth strategy. Industry expert Pete Ford has been appointed as Business Development Manager. He...

Austrian-based petrochemical producer Borealis issued a force majeure declaration for its Stenungsund steam cracker in Sweden, the company told S&P Global Platts. "On 8 April 2020 Borealis had to ... declare force majeure (FM) for...

On April 13, Len Lauer, CEO of Memjet, passed away unexpectedly at his home in La Jolla, California. He was 62 years old. Lauer was named the CEO of Memjet in 2010 and assumed the...

Scholle IPN in Chilhowie is reducing its workforce this week by 128 employees due to a sharp decline in business due to COVID-19, according to a letter from the manufacturer to Mayor Gary Heninger. The...

While U.S. hospitals report severe shortages of equipment in their fight against COVID-19, executives at Milton, Wis.-based Charter NEX Films Inc. are running every production line as they meet daily to prioritize production of films...

Chemical firms around the world are adding yet more production of hand sanitizer and sanitizer raw materials in an effort to meet unprecedented demand in the face of COVID-19. Huntsman has begun manufacturing multi-ton quantities...

Polymer Film and Bag, a division of Polymer Packaging, Inc., begins production of multilayered film for the flexible packaging industry on the second of two co-extrusion lines. “We are very excited to be back in...

Flexible packaging leader ProAmpac announced a five-year extension of its Research and Development alliance with Polytechnique Montréal. The partnership will continue funding the Sustainable, Safe and Smart Polymer Flexible Packaging program operated by the university’s...

The ongoing coronavirus pandemic and the restrictions on movement that have followed continue to raise new challenges for the European petrochemical industry and the wider EMEA region. Supply-chain concerns in Europe continue to rise and...

Shrinath Flexipack Pvt Ltd, India’s leading manufacturer of plastic packaging materials has finalised an agreement to build its first factory in the Middle East at KIZAD. The investment of AED 55 million ($15 million) will...

TC Transcontinental Packaging, the packaging sector of TC Transcontinental, is proud to support the vital food industry, a sector considered critical by governments, and contribute to the maintenance of essential services in communities during the...

The newsprint market is on the decline and with the spread of Covid-19, the market environment has become even more challenging. Kruger has therefore decided to take downtime at the Brompton paper mill. Canadian forestry...

Stora Enso has appointed David Ekberg as EVP, Head of Packaging Solutions division and member of the Group Leadership Team as of 1 April 2020. David Ekberg has held the role of acting Head of...

Greif, Inc., a global leader and industrial packaging solutions provider, announced that it has completed its previously announced divestiture of the Consumer Packaging Group (“CPG”) business for $85 million in cash to Graphic Packaging Holding...

Huhtamaki has completed the acquisition of full ownership of its joint venture company Laminor S.A. in Brazil. Laminor is specialized in high-quality tube laminates, particularly for oral care applications, and was set up in 2002...

Berry Global Group, Inc. has advanced its investment in an additional specialty meltblown asset to produce high-efficiency filtration media serving the EMEIA markets. Current projections are for commercial production to start in the June quarter...

LyondellBasell, one of the largest plastics, chemicals and refining companies in the world, has informed the engineering and construction contractors it will slow construction of its world-scale propylene oxide (PO) and tertiary butyl alcohol (TBA)...

Saudi Arabia’s Advanced Petrochemical Company has signed an agreement with South Korean company SK Gas for constructing and operating propane dehydrogenation (PDH) and polypropylene (PP) plants in Jubail Industrial City, Saudi Arabia. The plant will...

The COVID-19 pandemic continues to have an unprecedented impact around the world and needed medical, health and hygiene products are in short supply. After assessing the Company’s capability to manufacture hand sanitizer at its facilities...

We recognize and appreciate the aggressive steps that are being taken to respond to the threats of the COVID-19 virus. We represent the manufacturers, distributors and supply chain of the products and raw materials that...

Polymer Film & Bag, a member of the Polymer Packaging family of companies, is pleased to announce that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition has granted the company...