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.
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.
ePac, established via a joint partnership between Emerald Packaging and Arion Partners, is said to be the first greenfield flexible packaging company in North America based exclusively on a digital printing technology platform.
While Sharp Packaging Systems extrudes its own film, prints on said extruded film and is a converter of premade bags, it’s also a fully integrated manufacturer of flexible packaging equipment.
Largest label and printing show in the region returns to the Donald E. Stephens Convention Center in Rosemont, Illinois, for three days of exhibition, networking and education.
While the front-end benefits of flexible packaging are well documented, there’s still work to be done on the back end. But new innovations are paving the way for greater recyclability.
The challenge was to dramatically improve the strength and toughness of the bag-in-box liner so that the snack product would survive intact during the forming and filling process.
ZiEn Inc. is an Oconomowoc, Wisconsin-based co-packer and producer of eco-friendly products that is particularly specialized in filling for major brands in the small engine and outdoor power equipment industry.