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Flexible Packaging caught up with Daniels following the purchase and installation of an Indigo 20000 press in fall 2016, which it plans to use for its growing shrink sleeve, flexible packaging and labels business in the microbrewery, supplement and nutraceuticals markets, among others.

While static-neutralizing equipment may be one of the more niche components involved in packaging, it’s still of great importance to creating a successful end product.

Flexible packaging continues to be a solution to societal challenges like food waste and changing consumer lifestyles, and 2017 looks to be another big year.

American Durafilm has introduced Duralok, a resealable FEP or Kapton film bag that solves a long-standing issue for handling sample bag materials. 

Converters Expo is celebrating its 10th anniversary on March 23 at Lambeau Field in Green Bay, Wisconsin, and doing so with intentions of exceeding the record 650 attendees and 100-plus exhibitors that made the show a rousing success in 2016.

Fairfield, New Jersey-based converter Custom Labels Inc. has listened to its customers well enough to know that the flexible packaging and film label markets are two areas slated for big growth.

INX International Ink Co. has reached an agreement to purchase Creative Industria e Comercio Ltda., a leading printing ink manufacturer based in Sao Paulo, Brazil. 

In the 38 years that Peel Plastic Products Ltd. has been around, the company has grown from its modest days manufacturing plastic grocery carryout bags to an expanding flexible packaging converter producing premade plastic pouches.

A Flexible Packaging Q&A on bag/pouch making.

Packaging Strategies’ third annual Global Pouch West is moving to Las Vegas December 7-8 for one-and-a-half days’ worth of educational sessions, networking and a tabletop exhibition hall.