“If there’s something that we see as a market opportunity or a customer need, we look to develop that capability in house, so we have the control of quality, delivery and cost,” says Joe Imburgia, general manager of operations at Packaging Personified.

What are the latest trends in flexible packaging? Biggest challenges? Anticipated change in sales? We wanted to know, so we partnered with BNP Media’s market research division in an effort to better understand the current state of the industry.

While consumer packaging waste has been a key focus over the last decade, commercial and industrial packaging is being scrutinized now more than ever.

In the March installment of Roundtable, we sit down with John P. Christiano,Vice President, Technology at Davis-Standard LLC, Laurent Cros, CEO for Pearl Technologies Inc., Andy Christie, Managing Director at SAM North America LLC, Mike Andrews, Process Technology and Application Development, Extrusion Systems at Windmoeller & Hoelscher Corp., Steve DeSpain, Vice President, for Reifenhauser Inc., Jim Campbell, Vice President of Sales at Hosokawa Alpine American Inc., and Vijay Shankar, Vice President for Mamata Extrusion Systems Pvt. Ltd.

ICE USA, the International Converting Exhibition scheduled this year from April 25-27 at the Orange County Convention Center in Orlando, Florida, is the only dedicated event for the conversion of paper, film, foil, nonwovens and other flexible web-based materials in the Americas.

In the Jan/Feb installment of Roundtable, we sit down with Eric Smith, Vice President of Technology for Charter NEX and Eric Bender, Market Development Manager, New Platforms for Jindal Films Americas.

For Fritz Yambrach, professor and director of packaging at San Jose State University in California, decades of experience in the packaging industry and concern for access to water in impoverished or disaster areas led to an idea for a simple, yet life-changing solution: the Fritz Water Vest.

Back in 2014, INEOS announced that they were halting the production of Barex resins, the acclaimed resins used in chemical-resistant packaging. The announcement shook the flexible packaging industry...

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.