Q: Since we all know the standup pouch is king, do you see another pouch style that might end up being the next big thing?
Fuller: All signs point to a variation on a theme.
Technology leadership helps ExxonMobil Chemical deliver solutions that enable innovation and can add value across the entire value chain, including opportunities to improve performance, reduce total costs and help meet the growing trends for sustainable solutions.
Unless you have extruded some heavy gage tubing or very large rolls of blown film tubing (or ‘J’ sheet) possibly using an edge guide, you may not have experienced “flanges” on the edge of a roll of film.
A Q&A with Brian Beuning, senior VP of sales and marketing for Charter NEX Films and Steve Crimmin, U.S. director of sales and marketing for RKW Danafilms
Using better-engineered, coextruded films with multiple layers may cost more up front, but can save money and increase productivity and profitability in the long run.
One way that some flexible packaging operations often try to save money is using single-layer films or low-cost multi-layer films in their vertical form fill seal (VFFS) machines.
With hundreds of new products on display from over 300 exhibitors and more than three dozen conference sessions being offered by the industry’s leading trade associations, ICE USA 2013 in Orlando, Florida, April 9-11, is definitely the place to be this Spring.