Flexible Packaging recently caught up with Sebastian Huennefeld, technical sales manager, extrusion equipment, Windmoeller & Hoelscher, for an update on all-things extrusion.
Petoskey Plastics, a Michigan-based, environmentally-focused film, bag and resin manufacturer, has developed a recycling scorecard system that calculates the impact its closed-loop recycling partners are having on the environment.
Siegwerk is expanding its portfolio of low migration UV printing inks with the launch of its SICURA Nutriflex LEDTex ink series. The launch makes the the company the first in the market to offer LED UV printing inks for food and pharmaceutical packaging.
Currently available pouch manufacturing machines feature critical enhancements that address present market trends and demands such as short production runs, quick changeovers, film alternatives to polyester and recyclability.
The Dow Chemical Company has signed on as a funding sponsor of The Recycling Partnership. Company officials say the collaboration is an important step in Dow’s journey to reach its 2025 Sustainability Goals, which include turning materials formerly considered waste into new products.
Label Specialties Inc., a trade-only label converter in Louisville, Kentucky, has received approval to produce drum labels on flexographic presses that fully meet the Globally Harmonized System (GHS) requirements for overseas shipments.