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.

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.

Kim West, Simco-Ion marketing manager, discusses the perils of improper static control, new developments for hazardous environments and why static control is arguably more important than ever in the winter months.

In just under 25 years, Poly Print has morphed from a regional flexo printer into a national one. It’s branched out from food and beverage markets to serve everything from pharmaceuticals to consumer products.

Packaging Strategies’ third annual event targeted to packaging professionals located west of the Mississippi River will take place from December 7-8 at the Red Rock Casino, Resort & Spa in the foothills of Las Vegas.

A special Q&A on inspection and testing with Dave Muchorski.

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. 

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.