Flexible Packaging Materials & Services - Articles - Page 149

From Punk Rock to Packaging: Green Day Rockers Help Launch Sustainable Packaging Initiative

Green Day guitarist/frontman Billie Joe Armstrong and bassist Mike Dirnt, who own Oakland Coffee Works, help introduce coffee pods and bags made from compostable materials.

October 27, 2016

It’s estimated that 18,000 single-serve coffee pods are discarded every minute. In fact, lined up, the pods that are thrown away each year could circle the Earth more than 10 times.

Aptar to Feature Dispensing Technologies at PACK EXPO

October 21, 2016

Aptar Food & Beverage will showcase a range of dispensing technologies at booth #N-6378 during PACK EXPO, which takes place Nov. 6-9 at McCormick Place in Chicago.

Sun Chemical Expands Online Support Platform to Canadian Customers

October 14, 2016

Sun Chemical has expanded its online support platform, SunSupportOnline.com, to its Canadian customers.

Klöckner Pentaplast’s SmartCycle Line Receives Certificate of Verification

October 12, 2016

Klöckner Pentaplast’s line of SmartCycle post-consumer recycled content polyester films has been granted a Certificate of Verification by NSF International.

Comexi to Showcase Products for Converting Phase at K 2016

October 6, 2016

Comexi will present its latest products developed for the flexible packaging converting phases at K 2016 Oct. 19-26 in Düsseldorf, Germany. Visitors can find the company in Hall 4 at booth B21.

Ashland Unveils New Corporate Identity

October 3, 2016

Ashland has revealed its new “Always Solving” corporate identity, an unveiling serving its organizational culuture that aims to continue to differentiate the company as it continues its mission to become the premier specialty chemical company in the world.

Cover Feature: Best Practices from a Flexible Film Converter

Inside Popular Ink’s Drive to Become ‘the Google’ of Packaging

From $100,000 deficits to unprecedented growth, McKinney, Texas-based printer/converter continues ascent in flexible packaging industry.

Eric Fish

October 3, 2016

Today, the co-founder and CEO of McKinney, Texas-based Popular Ink Co., a printer and converter of flexible packaging, is helming a company that’s achieved year-after-year sales growth and is currently on target to reach $30 million in revenue by the end of 2016.

Preview: PACK EXPO

PACK EXPO International Returns to Chicago’s McCormick Place in November

October 3, 2016

Over 2,000 exhibitors. Education opportunities. Full-scale machinery demonstrations. It must be time once again for the biennial PACK EXPO International, North America’s largest packaging and processing trade show.

Labeling: Innovative Labels

Film Labeling Solutions That Enhance Product Protection, Increase Shelf Appeal

Audrey LaForest

October 3, 2016

For a company to stay in business for 83 years, it has to continually adapt and evolve. At Innovia Films, a Cumbria, England-headquartered global supplier of in-mold label materials, metalized substrates and pressure-sensitive films, the company is doing just that.