The Flexible Packaging Association (FPA) announces the winners of the FPA 2020 Student Flexible Design Challenge. This year’s first place winners were a team of students from California Polytechnic State University, and two students from...

UK-headquartered international packaging business DS Smith has opened its first recycling facility in the US in Reading, Pennsylvania. The new 43,000ft2 facility is located adjacent to one of the company’s paper mills and within a...

In November 2017, the BBC aired Episode Four of the Blue Planet II, “Big Blue,” which was seen by 14 million viewers. Presented by Sir David Attenborough, the episode bombarded watchers with footage of birds...

Manufacturer and converter of flexible packaging Daibochi Bhd is disposing of its entire 36.32% stake in property development and investment company Skyline Resources (M) Sdn Bhd for RM10 million, to focus on its core business....

The COVID-19 outbreak is giving new meaning to those “sustainable” shopping bags that politicians and environmentalists have been so eager to impose on the public. These reusable tote bags can sustain the COVID-19 and flu...

Messe Düsseldorf is postponing the leading international trade fair interpack. It will now take place from 25 February to 3 March 2021. In doing so, Messe Düsseldorf is following the recommendation of the crisis management...

AIMPLAS, the Plastics Technology Centre, has participated in the European FLEXPOL project, whose mission is to develop a new, more eco-friendly material with antimicrobial and antifungal properties to be used in hospitals. This plastic film...

Produce, use, and throw away? No, better reduce, reuse, and recycle, says the EU. The paradigm of the current linear economic model could be coming to an end, replaced by a circular economy, a system...

A Washington State University research team has found that nanoscale particles of the most commonly used plastics tend to move through the water supply, especially in fresh water, or settle out in wastewater treatment plants,...

The drupa trade fair scheduled for 16-26 June 2020 will be postponed to 20-30 April 2021. In doing so, Messe Düsseldorf is following the recommendation of the crisis management team of the German Federal Government...

Motion Industries, Inc., a leading distributor of maintenance, repair, and operation replacement parts and a wholly owned subsidiary of Genuine Parts Company (GPC), has promoted Greg Cook to Executive Vice President - Chief Financial Officer...

Tim Sykes talks to Alexander Baumgartner, CEO of Constantia Flexibles, to hear his frank thoughts about how the industry can move forward in the most sustainable manner.

The use of RESIN8 blocks creates demand for formerly landfill-bound mixed plastics and diverts plastic waste from otherwise escaping waste collection and going back into the environment. Braskem, one of the largest polyolefins producers in...

MacDermid Graphics Solutions announces the promotions of Patrick Mullaney to VP, Global Strategic Accounts, and Tom Caplinger to VP, Americas. With 32 years at MacDermid, Pat has been instrumental in building MacDermid Graphics Solutions into...

Glenroy™ Inc., a converter and printer of flexible packaging for over 50 years, received five (5) awards from the Flexible Packaging Association (FPA) including two Gold Flexible Packaging Achievement Awards for the premade STANDCAP inverted...

Chemicals company Clariant has teamed up with Lavergne, a producer of sustainable engineering resin from recycled ocean-bound plastics, to develop halogen-free, flame-retardant polyester compounds made from ocean-bound plastics. With the first grade already commercialized, the...

With brand owners under duress to reduce packaging and the use of plastics in particular, it is exciting to see how industry is responding to this environmental crisis. Daily, we see reports of new mono-material...

An anniversary is a time for reflection: a time to pause, look back, and see distance traveled. Steurs Graphic Solutions can look back a long way — 70 years, to 1949, when the two Steurs...

Charter NEX Films, North America’s leading independent producer of specialty films, proudly announces they have joined the Association of Plastic Recyclers (APR) and their participation in the APR’s Demand Champions program. The APR is an...

Berry Global Group, Inc. highlights its involvement in the fight against coronavirus (COVID-19). As the world leader for nonwovens manufacturing, Berry is supplying leading healthcare and consumer brand companies around the world to create products...

The power of color is well known, and brand owners use color to engage with customers in many ways. Indeed, research shows that up to 85 per cent of customers’ first impression is based on...

Peter Fallat, Director of Global Design & Packaging at Hill’s Pet Nutrition, a Colgate-Palmolive company, discusses how flexible films fit into the drive for more sustainable packaging.

At drupa 2020, TRESU (Hall10, stand B41) shows how its customized flexo equipment, systems and printing machines reduce the Cost to Print in flexo, digital and offset printing. TRESU will display a range of solutions...

Siegwerk will showcase its extensive ink and packaging expertise at this year’s interpack components and drupa presenting its wide-ranging ink and service portfolio concretely addressing future printing and packaging trends. With the motto “rethINK packaging”...

If you’re a Boisean who has recycled plastics in an orange bag recently, they probably didn’t go to Salt Lake City and get turned into diesel fuel as you were once told they would. Renewlogy,...

Across the world, sea turtles are swallowing bits of plastic in the ocean and often dying as a result. There are many theories about why sea turtles and other marine animals ingest plastic. Some people...

Davis-Standard will promote its global equipment platform at Plastprintpack in Lagos, Nigeria (tradeshow postponed, date to follow) at booth H.04, hall 1. Davis-Standard’s sales representative, Dr. Anye Chifen, the managing director of ENGICCS, will be...

Business Planet heads to Austria to see how one large family firm is attempting to turn the problem of plastic pollution from packaging into a sustainable business opportunity. Today's modern economy would not function without...