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Wash-Off Label Technology Meets the Challenge

With increased pressure to meet numerous sustainability mandates by companies and governments, wash-off label technology offers a way to optimize bottle recycling, deliver more rPET material for the supply chain and produce a clean-label look

Grant Gerke

March 16, 2021

In a recent Flexible Packaging article about new polymer film material and equipment requirements, Simon Hermans, director of U.S. sales and marketing for Südpack, stated that millennials will drive demand for new sustainable packaging formats.

Editor’s Forum

What’s Next?

While we’ve yet to arrive at a circular economy, what’s the next test for the industry once we do?

Derrick Teal

March 16, 2021

Last month, Glen Gudino, Flexible Packaging’s publisher, and I had a chat with Dennis Calamusa, president and CEO of Alliedflex. It was a wide-ranging discussion that at one point turned toward the topic of a circular economy.

Amcor Announces New Partnership with Alliance to End Plastic Waste

March 15, 2021

Amcor also recently partnered with McKinsey.org to develop recycling and waste management solutions for communities in Latin America.

Smurfit Kappa Recognized by the United Nation’s Sustainable Development Goals

March 15, 2021

Smurfit Kappa is the first FTSE 100 company to receive a five star rating.

Henkel Publishes its 30th Sustainability Report

March 15, 2021

The report details the company’s progress in the sustainability.

Flexible by Design

A Smooth Transition into a New Market

A partnership between Valvoline and Hammer Packaging is driving flexible packaging innovation

March 15, 2021

Walk into any auto parts store in the U.S., and the smell of rubber and oil (and maybe air fresheners if you walk down the right aisle) will likely be all around you. What will also be around you?

Circular Economy

Flexible Packaging is Coming Around

Innovative products start with an idea, and those products are around the corner as the industry thinks more about the circular economy

Derrick Teal

March 14, 2021

Regular readers would know that the featured topic last month was about the advances in sustainability within the flexible packaging industry.

Editor’s Forum

The Future of Accountability

The circumstances involving one child could have a ripple effect across the world

Derrick Teal

March 12, 2021

I wouldn’t be surprised if you haven’t heard the name Ella Kissi-Debrah before. She was a 9-year-old living in southeast London near one of its busiest roads and suffered from severe asthma, which caused her numerous trips to the hospital between 2010 and 2013. Finally, in February 2013, her asthma brought on a cardiac arrest and she died.