As Graphic Dimensions scouted for a way to diversify and grow its business, it saw opportunity in the thriving labels and packaging industry.

With the shrink sleeve market recording annual growth of between 6 and 8 percent, Hammer Packaging, located in Rochester, New York, invested in a brand-new VSOP web printing press with nine printing units and an additional flexo unit.

FPA commissioned Columbia University’s Earth Engineering Center to explore and identify the most promising resource recovery technologies for flexible packaging.

The Flexible Packaging Association is pleased to announce that Markenburg International Foods Corporation has joined the association. Markenburg established its flexible packaging division in July 2010.

The Flexible Packaging Association’s 2013 FPA Fall Executive Conference will be held on Thursday, September 26, 2013 at The Peninsula hotel in Chicago, Illinois and focus on key opportunities and challenges important to the flexible packaging industry.

The Flexible Packaging Association is preparing to release its 2013 State of the U.S. Flexible Packaging Industry Report.

To assist FPA members further explore flexible packaging post use alternatives, FPA has developed a framework for establishing Community Flexible Packaging Resource Recovery Project.

To assists FPA members respond to requests from stakeholders for transparent flexible packaging manufacturing information, the FPA commissioned Packaging and Technology Integrated Solutions to conduct research and identify corporate sustainability metrics, including definitions and reporting methods for what should be measured, and how it should be measured.

The efficacies of new and emerging resource recovery technologies identified through the Identification and Assessment of Available Technologies for Materials and Energy Recovery from Flexible Packaging Waste study were analyzed in a series of pilot tests.