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PMMI members this month voted to expand its definition of “General Member” to include companies that manufacture processing machinery in North America.

The recent staging of interpack, PROCESSES AND PACKAGING 2014, was characterized by an outstanding atmosphere among the approximately 2,700 exhibitors and 175,000 visitors in the 19 halls of the completely booked Düsseldorf Exhibition Center.

Mexico is now the world’s second largest consumer of PET bottles, and leading the way in PET recycling, finds new report from Canadean.

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.