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Over the last few years the stand-up pouch has emerged as one of the most versatile and rapidly growing flexible packaging formats which is being adopted worldwide for an increasingly wide variety of end-use applications.

An alliance of food manufacturers, retailers and foodservice operators announce the release of a toolkit to help businesses in the food sector reduce the amount of food waste sent to landfill.

The global biodegradable packaging industry has seen a shift in paradigm and has now moved towards efficient and advanced packaging.

The survey of 400 executives and managers at food and beverage retail companies found that 97% of retail executives believe that consumers are driving a demand for green packaging and 98% of these professionals anticipate an increase in this demand within the next year.

Demand for pouches in the US is projected to increase 4.6 percent per year to $9.4 billion in 2018.

U.S. consumers are pushing their shopping carts past many of America’s national brands and feel little regret in doing so.

The robotics market in North America posted its second-highest quarter ever in terms of robots ordered in first quarter 2014.

The global PET packaging market is worth $48.1 billion in 2014, amounting to almost 16 million tonnes.

China’s one child policy has led to the average number of people per household size shrinking to 2.8.

For 2013 as a whole, the total value for primary plastics equipment shipments was up a solid 8% when compared with the annual total from 2012.