WS Packaging Group Inc. will invest in new printing technologies to meet the demand for more new business and reduce lead times, resulting in increased efficiencies for its customers.
Public health advocates recently used a little-known legal tool today to challenge a recent FDA move allowing a toxic chemical in food packaging. The groups filed an objection to FDA’s decision to continue to allow perchlorate in dry food packaging.
Craft brewers sold $23.5 billion in 2016, according to the Brewers Association. That amounts to 21.9% of the $107 billion U.S. beer market. That's up from 19% last year – and continued growth from the 10% that craft brewers held in 2012.
Shifts in consumer lifestyles and the consequent demand for convenience products are contributing to a growing use of flexible packaging, replacing traditional formats, such as glass jars and metal cans, according to a report by Smithers Pira.
Engage Technologies Corporation, parent company of Squid Ink Manufacturing, Eastey Enterprises, American Film & Machinery, and Cogent Technologies, announces David R. Mylrea as CEO. Mylrea will continue the legacy of Engage Technologies founder William Hoagland, who passed away in December 2016.
On April 24, Rhode Island Governor Gina Raimondo, University of Rhode Island (URI) President David M. Dooley, Toray Plastics (America) President and CEO Mike Brandmeier, URI College of Engineering Dean Raymond Wright, and Kalvin Cho, a URI College of Engineering student, broke ground on the construction of a new, $125 million engineering complex at URI.
Global demand for functional and barrier coatings in paper and paperboard applications, is forecast to grow by 4.9% year-on-year to $5.18 billion by 2022.
Healthcare Packaging EXPO (Las Vegas Convention Center; Sept. 25-27) will be co-located with PACK EXPO Las Vegas this fall and is expected to lead the way in packaging innovation for pharmaceutical, biotech and medical device manufacturers.
Crown Holdings Inc. has opened a new beverage can manufacturing plant in Nichols, NY, which marks the industry’s first greenfield facility in the U.S. in more than 20 years,
Top Environmental Regulators from CalRecycle, California's Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery, will discuss possible future changes in the regulatory climate impacting plastics recycling in California at The Association of Plastic Recyclers (APR) Spring Meeting in Sacramento, CA.
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