Welcome to Sustainable Packaging Explained, your guide to sustainable materials, methods, and package design produced by the Emerging Brands Alliance in conjunction with Packaging World. In today's episode, we will explore considerations of package design...

We delivered a meaningfully improved result in the third quarter compared with the previous quarter. Profitability and cash generation were significantly up, and encouragingly, we see progress in both our European and North American regions....

Seeking to scale its Central America manufacturing capabilities, PAC Worldwide has moved operations formerly housed in its Pedro Escobedo, Mexico location into a new 83,000 square-foot plant in Vistha San Juan Del Rio. The full-service...

The flexible packaging industry is in a unique situation as it is one of the most environmentally sustainable packaging types from a water and energy consumption, product-to-package ratio, transportation efficiency, food waste, and greenhouse gas...

Stora Enso appoints Ad Smit as Executive Vice President of the Packaging Solutions division and a member of the Group Leadership Team. He will start on 1 December 2023 and report to Hans Sohlström, President...

Constantia Flexibles, the world's third largest producer of flexible packaging, officially commits to net zero emissions according to the standards of the Science Based Targets Initiative (SBTi). As one of the biggest players in the...

Stora Enso faces a continued subdued market outlook for the rest of 2023 and going into 2024, as weak global growth and high inflation weigh on its performance. The Company expects no market improvement in...

Mura Technology is opening its first commercial-scale HydroPRS advanced plastic recycling plant in Teesside, UK, processing ‘unrecyclable’ flexible and rigid mixed plastics into recycled hydrocarbon feedstocks for repeated plastic production. Located at the Wilton International...

Etimark, a label and package printer based in Switzerland, has made the switch from mercury to UV LED curing for its presses after adopting Flint Group’s EkoCure® Dual Cure ink range. Etimark, known for its customised...

The market environment improved slightly during the third quarter of 2023, compared to the first half of the year. The significant destocking that impacted the previous two quarters faded during the third quarter. Overall, inflation...

Garlock Printing and Converting, a family company that has been operating in Gardner for over 36 years, is rebranding to Garlock Flexible. Executives at Garlock Flexible decided to rebrand to better fit with the company's...

Recent predictions state that fisheries global production will reach 194 million tonnes by 2026. Worldwide almost 20 million tonnes of raw material are mainly used for the production of fishmeal and fish oil. One of...

Jujie collaborated with ExxonMobil’s polyethylene business — which is acknowledged as driving packaging advances through value chain collaboration — to use performance materials, which can offer the sustainability benefit of enabling the use of less...

Pacificolor LLC, a leading player in the prepress and flexible packaging industry, is pleased to announce the appointment of Kent Forsgren as chief financial officer (CFO). With an extensive forty-year background in financial management and...

Amazon's fulfillment center in Northeast Ohio has become the first in the U.S. to replace plastic delivery packaging with paper packaging completely, according to WKYC.com. This change is part of Amazon's broader initiative to make...

Recent sessions at SPC Advance and WASTECON featured numerous signs of companies from the two sectors trying to better understand each other. There has long been a gap between the pace of new packaging innovations...

SEI Laser, a leading manufacturer of laser cutting systems, and its North American distributor, Matik, Inc., will showcase three of SEI Laser's most popular machines at the upcoming Printing United Expo. Visit booth C2811, building...

The Recycling Program Solutions Hub (Hub) is an interactive tool and resource designed for local recycling staff to connect, optimize, and propel their recycling programs forward. Helping local communities to enhance their recycling programs is...

The Board of Directors of Sonoco has declared a $0.51 per share quarterly common stock dividend. This dividend will be paid on December 8, 2023, to shareholders of record as of November 10, 2023. According...

Crawford Packaging is pleased to announce its new partnership and distribution agreement in Central Mexico with StePacPPC, a global leader in Modified Atmosphere Packaging (MAP) solutions for shelf-life extension of fresh produce. StePacPPC’s products are...

Eaglewood Technologies has promoted Matthew Sweet to General Manager of the Minneapolis-based anilox and parts cleaning business. Sweet has been with Eaglewood for four years and navigated the service portion of the business through the...

At PPC Flex’s Payson, Utah location, the verdict is in on a year’s beta-testing of the new FLEXCEL NX Ultra 42 Solution from Miraclon, and it’s very positive. Simmy Coscia, PPC’s Director of Prepress &...

Two new enzymes have the potential to dissolve plastic bottles faster than current recycling methods and create the raw material to make new ones, according to a study from Brunel University London published in the journal, Biofilms...

Flexible packaging stands out as a versatile solution that offers a myriad of benefits to both manufacturers and consumers alike. The global flexible packaging market size will be valued at $112.4bn in 2023 and is...

Aquapak Polymers Ltd, which specializes in polymer-based material technologies that can deliver both performance and environmental responsibility at scale, has announced its Newcastle University Chemistry Undergraduate award-winning Stage 3 Industry Challenge, which sets students the...

FUJIFILM North America Corporation, Graphic Communication Division, proudly announces that it has achieved Digital Press System Certification (Electrophotographic Category) for three of its market-leading print solutions from Idealliance, a leading developer of specifications and certifications...

The Flexible Packaging Association (FPA) is submitting comments on the above referenced proposed rule. Flexible packaging represents $43 billion in annual sales in the U.S. and is the second largest and one of the fastest...

Channeled Resources Group (CRG), a manufacturer of release liners, blank shipping labels and pressure sensitive roll label stock, as well as one of the world’s largest suppliers of reprocessed, coated, treated, and laminated papers and...