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When Walmart rolled out a new grocery delivery service, it tested a bold premise: customers letting a stranger walk into their homes to deliver milk, eggs and other products directly into the fridge. Now that expanding service, InHome, is testing...
FLAG (Flexo Label Advantage Group) will bring its popular Annual Members Meeting to Minnesota this spring. After two years, this meeting will be at last presented in-person. Recognizing the need for continuing education and networking...
Glenroy® Inc., a leading sustainable flexible packaging company has announced they have joined the Association of Plastic Recyclers (APR) effective January 2022. The membership demonstrates their commitment to the success of plastic recycling and the...
Printers around the world and throughout the country are continually analyzing their businesses to determine how to differentiate themselves from competitors and maintain growth. Superior Litho has achieved outstanding growth producing folding cartons, along with...
‘Eco-friendly’ and ‘sustainable’ have both become climate change buzzwords in recent years, increasingly used by brands in campaigns to promote their climate-saving credentials, The main issue with this is that many of these brands are...
Upcycling polyethylene (the normal ubiquitous plastic we are all familiar with) into high-value plastics that can compete with “virgin” plastic (meaning plastics made directly from petro-chemicals) is a fiendish problem to solve. The fact that...
CEFLEX recently launched plans for a next-generation recycling plant that it hopes will be complete by the end of 2023. This marks the creation of the first commercial waste processing site based around its Quality...
The Northeast Recycling Council (NERC) and Northeast Waste Management Officials’ Association (NEWMOA) created a Workgroup to create the draft Model Legislation for minimum post-consumer recycled plastic content in trash and carry-out bags and food, beverage,...
LyondellBasell announced its investment in a Circular Plastics Fund led by global venture fund Infinity Recycling. This investment expands the company’s venture capital activities to help eliminate plastic waste in the environment and advance the...
India’s largest multinational in flexible packaging materials & solutions and a global leader in polymer sciences has been riding the waves of innovation to build packaging products, applications & solutions that will further enhance the...
This laser slitter will allow the British company to explore new market opportunities by commercialising innovative and sustainable packaging formats. The innovative technology of Comexi, a global supplier of solutions for the flexible packaging printing...
As part of the constitutive meeting of the drupa Committee on 8 February 2022, Dr. Andreas Pleßke, CEO at Koenig & Bauer AG, has been appointed Chairman of this body. Wolfgang Poppen, Managing Partner at...
The year 2021 was marked by a challenging business environment. This was linked to the continued COVID-19 pandemic, with appearance of new variants, and the significant disruption of the value chain. Throughout 2021 we continued...
An Atlanta company is making the world a cleaner place with new technology. Nexus Circular in southwest Atlanta has converted millions of pounds of landfill-bound plastics back into oil and wax to be used for...
The Board of Directors of Stora Enso has decided on a new plan for 2022–2024 under the Company’s share-based long-term incentive programme. The purpose of the plan is to incentivise and align management with shareholder...
Xeikon continues on its pathway to full digitalization with the launch of its new Xeikon LCU series (Label Converting Units), specifically developed and designed for the converting industries in high-end label production and manufacturing. Moving...
For 2021, Stora Enso is publishing one combined Annual Report covering our strategy, financials, sustainability reporting, corporate governance, and remuneration. The Annual Report describes progress in our strategic initiatives in 2021 and how we create value...
Toppan, a global leader in communication, security, packaging, décor materials, and electronics solutions, has been recognized as a Supplier Engagement Leader in the 2021 Supplier Engagement Rating (SER) conducted by CDP, an international non-profit organization...
Davis-Standard, LLC will promote the company’s full line of extrusion and converting technology during PLASTIMAGEN MÉXICO® in Mexico City, March 8 –11, 2022. Davis-Standard’s team will be available at booth #2256 to discuss a range...
OPM Labels & Packaging Group (OPM) has announced it is investing in two new fully automated Nilpeter FA22 presses to support its accelerating growth in both Europe and the US. A 12-color 22” FA line...
The Flexible Packaging Association (FPA) is pleased to support SB 367, which would provide regulatory certainty for advanced recycling processes and create a more circular economy for plastics in New Hampshire.
Davis-Standard is pleased to announce that Kyle Haley has been hired as Aftermarket Sales Manager – Upper Midwest. Haley’s territory includes the states of Idaho, Illinois, Iowa, Minnesota, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, North Dakota, South Dakota,...
BW Flexible Systems, a Barry-Wehmiller Packaging Systems company, has reduced carbon emissions at its Italian facilities by 92% via a partnership with E.ON, one of Europe’s largest operators of energy networks. As of January 1,...
Mondi, a global leader in packaging and paper, and Henkel are helping consumers to wash dishes more sustainably by creating a completely new reuse packaging concept. The two companies worked together on a packaging solution...
In 2024 the international print and packaging industries will again meet at drupa, the world’s leading trade fair for printing technologies. As of now exhibitors can register online at www.drupa.com in order to present their...
On behalf of the Flexible Packaging Association (FPA), who is the voice of U.S. manufacturers of flexible packaging and their suppliers, I write to commend the Committee on Environment and Public Works for its continued...
Davis-Standard will promote a range of converting technology at ICE Europe, March 15 – 17, in Munich, Germany, Hall A5, booth 1310. Davis-Standard’s team from the U.S. and ER-WE-PA, Davis-Standard’s subsidiary in Germany, will promote...
All Printing Resources (APR) announced today that it has named Katherine Treadaway as Business Development/Technical Sales. Following graduation from Clemson University’s Graphic Communications program in 2019, Katherine worked as an Applications Specialist in Plates and...