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Global Pouch West returns to the heart of West Coast packaging activity in the fourth year of this growing conference focused on flexible packaging in the Western states.

Constantia Flexibles has successfully completed the sale of its labels division to Multi-Color Corporation for $1.3 billion. All required regulatory authorities have cleared the transaction. 

We recently caught up with François Olivier, president and CEO of TC Transcontinental, and Rebecca Casey, TC’s senior director of marketing, for an overview of how the company has come so far in such a short period of time and where it’s poised to go in the future.

Flexible Packaging recently caught up with Carl Joachim, ePac CMO, for an update on the company’s all-digital platform and how it has been received by the industry in the year-plus since its inception.

November's Roundtable is with Terrance Clark, sales manager for TAKK Industries.

The labeling sector of the cold food and beverage packaging market can be a challenging business. From the extreme cold, wet, freezing or changing application conditions to difficult-to-adhere-to substrates, they have their work cut out for them.

CPG companies and converters are considering alternatives for aluminum foil packaging due to the uncertainty about the availability and price of foil since the U.S. Department of Commerce launched its anti-dumping duty (AD) and countervailing duty (CVD) investigations.

While it wasn't the case 30 years ago, most flexible packaging printers and converters today know that by retro-fitting their web-fed machinery with direct tension-sensing and control equipment they can control their overall process better while preventing poor quality in finished roll material.

Silgan Closures’ manufacturing facility in Champaign, Illinois, has been awarded the 2017 Illinois Governor’s Sustainability Award, recognizing the plant’s efforts to improve safety, minimize waste, cut energy consumption and reduce emissions.

Sun Chemical has introduced a new digitally printed packaging solution for the label, narrow web and packaging markets, SunEvo Digital Coatings.