Starting on April 1st, Opening Day, Major League Baseball fans can zip, sip and root for their home team. Beer, the long preferred beverage at baseball games, will see major competition as Mendocino County wine pioneer Fetzer and industry newcomer Zipz launch a unique new product in select North American stadiums.

The M&G Group, one of the three leading producers in the Americas of PET for packaging applications, announces that it has signed a one billion dollar engineering, procurement and construction contract with Sinopec Engineering Co., Ltd. for the turnkey construction of the world’s largest single line PET plant with a capacity of 1 million tons per year, integrated with the largest western world’s single line PTA plant with a capacity of 1.2 million tons per year. The plan will be located in Corpus Christi, TX.

That first sip of cold beer from an aluminum can or a bottle tastes great, doesn’t it? But don’t you wish there was a convenient way to keep that can colder, longer? Commodore Plastics has the answer with its new Labec® foam label stock, and is targeting both large and small breweries.

A next-generation liquid dispensing and delivery system featuring a collapsible rigid liner inside a bottle will be changing the way sensitive chemicals and other products are delivered. Known as BrightPak, the system is the brainchild of ATMI, Inc., a leader in packaging solutions for specialty liquid materials.

After a complete family rebrand, each of the four Ski Citrus Soda brands now has a completely new set of graphics.

Continuing to expand and enhance its food packaging lines, Placon, a top US thermoformer of custom and stock food containers, retail and medical device packaging as well as recycled PET materials, announces that it is currently rolling out its new anti-fog lid technology on its entire line of PET cold deli food packaging products.

A global food provider has enlisted the help of KM Packaging Services Ltd. to develop a packaging solution for a new pre-prepared meal concept, which comprises raw meat and vegetables in a three compartment APET tray.

Lightweight Containers has launched the first member of a new generation of KeyKegs: the cylindrical KeyKeg20. The new one-way keg owes its unique characteristics to an invention called the Double Wall™ technology, which surrounds the bag containing the beverage.

Demand for plastic film in the US is projected to grow 1.8% annually to 15.9 billion pounds in 2016. Advances will reflect the performance and source reduction advantages of plastic film over other packaging materials and opportunities in film products such as modified atmosphere packaging for food.

US demand for post-consumer recycled plastic is forecast to rise 6.5% per year to 3.5 billion pounds in 2016.