UFlex Limited, India's largest multinational flexible packaging and polymer science company, is to double its aseptic plant’s production capacity from 3.5bn to 7bn packs per annum. The capacity expansion at the Sanand, Gujurat facility, will...

New paper packaging developments caught your eye in 2020, along with news of refills and recyclable flexible packaging, as seen in our list of best-read articles about sustainability. Except when COVID-19 worries consumed us all...

In addition to sluggish traffic, there’s at least one more certainty associated with population growth in North Texas: residents and businesses are generating more trash, and landfills are running out of space to store it....

Oil and gas giant ExxonMobil will invest $8 million in a scrap plastics feedstock business launched by Agilyx, a chemical recycling company. Agilyx uses its technologies to break down scrap plastics into chemical products for...

H.B. Fuller announced readily available adhesive grades with hot melt advanced technology for extreme cold storage of vaccines and medication packaging. Advantra® adhesives provide a secure bond at -70 C with tamper-evident fiber tear. Proper...

Plastics recycling continues to draw the attention of researchers and industrial firms working to tackle the growing global pollution crisis in single-use plastics. Now, the U.S. Department of Energy’s Ames Laboratory, Ames, Iowa, has developed...

The EU will ban the export of unsorted plastic waste to poorer countries as of January. Under new rules, trash importers and exporters will need to agree on how to handle hazardous shipments. EU environment...

If designers are the fuel for packaging innovation, packaging production engineers are the engines that make it run — and as efficiently as possible. This may have been an atypical year in a lot of...

The U.S. and Europe have had formal recycling infrastructure in place for decades. That’s not the case in India, where Circulate Capital just invested millions of dollars to boost infrastructure and reduce ocean plastics generation....

Outlook Group has announced the formal establishment of a corporate Environmental Policy. The label and packaging converter based in Neenah, Wisconsin is committed to reducing the impact of its manufacturing operations on the environment, and...

Wikoff Color Corporation promoted Evan Benbow, Ph.D. to VP, Product Technology & Solutions. In his new role, he is responsible for overseeing product development at the corporate technical center, along with driving company-wide initiatives...

Avient Corporation, a premier provider of specialized and sustainable material solutions and services, announced that Avient ColorWorks™ has launched ColorForward™ 2022, the 16th edition of the annual color forecasting guide for the plastics industry. As...

The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources (DNR) has recognized Outlook Group with a 2020 Wisconsin Recycling Excellence Award. Based in Neenah, Wisconsin, Outlook Group is a manufacturer of flexible packaging, folding cartons, pressure-sensitive labels and...

As a consequence of a reorganization, BillerudKorsnäs changed its reporting structure as of 1 October 2020. To enable comparisons in coming financial reports, BillerudKorsnäs presents recalculated figures are presented for all quarters 2019 and the...

Investment funds managed by Morgan Stanley Capital Partners (MSCP), the middle-market focused private equity team at Morgan Stanley Investment Management, announced that they have completed an investment in Advanced Web Technologies Holding Company, which operates...

Tredegar Corporation announced the retirement of Michael J. Schewel as Executive Vice President, General Counsel and Corporate Secretary, and the appointment of Kevin C. Donnelly to the position of Vice President, General Counsel and Corporate...

Following an announcement made by IBM, the technology and consultant company has joined The Alliance to End Plastic Waste (Alliance) as a support member, IBM will help Alliance to create a data platform to track...

While many cities and eight states have banned single-use plastics, bags and other polyethylene packaging still clog landfills and pollute rivers and oceans. One major problem with recycling polyethylene, which makes up one-third of all...

Accraply, a manufacturer of label application systems, has introduced the Sirius 100, a cost-effective pressure-sensitive labeling machine for fast-moving, highly flexible production lines. Designed to minimize downtime with toolless changeovers, the Sirius 100 brings the...

Primary Packaging (PPI), a manufacturer of film and bags that services industrial and retail markets with high-quality heavy-duty packaging, is excited to announce the acquisition of Packaging Horizons, a manufacturer of tamper evident security bags....

Having industry put up money to help fix plastics recycling — or extended producer responsibility, as it's known in government — got a lot more real last week with a few pieces of news. Item...

Bobst Group and SEI Laser announce the creation of a new activity dedicated to Digital Laser Converting for the label and packaging industry Bobst Group and SEI Laser will join forces to accelerate the development...

Motion Industries, Inc., a distributor of maintenance, repair, and operation replacement parts and a wholly owned subsidiary of Genuine Parts Company, is pleased to announce that Randy Breaux, Motion Industries President, is a 2020 award...

Vonco Products LLC, an industry-leader in the contract manufacturing of liquid-tight medical devices and fluid bags, biohazard transport bags, and infection prevention PPE and equipment covers announced that the company received certification of their Quality...

Classic Packaging Company of Pfafftown, NC, USA has purchased the Sitexco SL 1.5 Laser Anilox Cleaning System from Eaglewood Technologies, in partnership with Anderson & Vreeland. Classic Packaging is a family-owned business that offers its...

Esko, a global developer of integrated software and hardware solutions for the packaging, label and wide format sectors, has announced the planned sale of its Kongsberg digital finishing business to OpenGate Capital, subject to any...

Look out No. 5. That’s right, the nonprofit Recycling Partnership is talking to you polypropylene, aka No. 5 plastic. Turn over a yogurt container or butter tub and you’re likely to see the No. 5...

Environmental activist group Greenpeace this week accused Walmart of falsely labeling items as recyclable and asked a California court to compel the retailer to stop making the claims. The Dec. 14 lawsuit is focused on...