Ampac, the world’s leader in creative packaging solutions, has won two Flexible Packaging Association (FPA) awards – Gold in Environmental & Sustainability Achievement for its Savvy Green No.2 Pouch, and Silver in Packaging Excellence for Campbell’s Skillet Sauces.
Applied Extrusion Technologies, Inc. announces that the company name has changed to Taghleef Industries Inc. for operations in the United States, and Taghleef Industries Canada Inc. for our company in Canada.
Catbridge has created an in-house slitting and rewinding lab at its Parsippany, NJ facility. This lab will enable converters to test new slitter designs and technologies and trial their specific materials.
Klöckner Pentaplast’s line of SmartCycle post-consumer recycled content polyester films produced in North America has been granted a “Certificate of Verification” by NSF International, an independent, third party, not-for-profit organization. The certificate verifies the recycled content claims of kp’s line of SmartCycle polyester films produced in North America and allows customers who use these films to be confident that the PCR-content claim is true and valid.
Nature’s Coffee Kettle is a coffee brewing system for campers, hikers and coffee connoisseurs. Now their updated spouted pouch from Flair Flexible Packaging helps Nature’s Coffee Kettle better communicate their unique brewing method and the freshness of their custom-roasted gourmet coffee.
Unless you have extruded some heavy gage tubing or very large rolls of blown film tubing (or ‘J’ sheet) possibly using an edge guide, you may not have experienced “flanges” on the edge of a roll of film.
A Q&A with Brian Beuning, senior VP of sales and marketing for Charter NEX Films and Steve Crimmin, U.S. director of sales and marketing for RKW Danafilms
Using better-engineered, coextruded films with multiple layers may cost more up front, but can save money and increase productivity and profitability in the long run.
One way that some flexible packaging operations often try to save money is using single-layer films or low-cost multi-layer films in their vertical form fill seal (VFFS) machines.