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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.

Mark Andy Print Products, the division of supplies and consumable by Mark Andy Inc., has appointed Chuck Mullins to technical sales representative.

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.

Hundreds of packaging converters, their suppliers and customers will converge at historic Lambeau Field in Green Bay, Wisconsin, April 13 and 14 for the 9th-annual Converters Expo, one of North America’s largest events showcasing equipment and materials suppliers to the converting industry.

For all of the rhetoric and publicity around “electronic packaging” and “smart labels,” there is a fundamental disconnect. Electronic manufacturing, which occupies its own ecosystem, is not naturally part of the brand or packaging manufacturing infrastructure.

Back in 2010, roll-to-roll printed electronics was the frontier of universities and researchers.