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Cover Feature: Creatively Inspired and Customer Focused

Best Practices From a Flexible Film Converter

With a focus on the customer, and not the bottom line, Catapult intends to disrupt the U.S. packaging and printing industry, specifically in its core competencies of self-adhesive, narrow web and linerless labels.
Eric Fish
September 5, 2018
Though Catapult officially just opened its Orlando, Florida, operations in spring 2018, the flexo print company is quick to point out that its business, while new, is actually some 25 years in the making.
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Berry Global Buys Laddawn

August 30, 2018

Berry Global Group, Inc. has officially purchased Laddawn, a manufacturer of blown polyethylene bags and films with a unique-to-industry e-Commerce sales platform. 


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Converters Corner

New Collation Shrink Packaging Offers Benefits for Craft Brewer

August 13, 2018
A 40 percent cost savings. Check. A 64 percent reduction in secondary packaging materials used. Check. A 73 percent reduction in trucks delivering the packaging materials. Check. And perhaps the most important result: a 300 percent growth through national retailers. Check that one, too.
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Cover Story

New Innovations in Flexible Packaging Sustainability

Many in the flexible packaging industry are hard at work to find sustainable solutions to make an already ideal packaging format even better. Here’s a look at some of them, from compostable bags to eco-friendly resins.
Eric Fish
August 3, 2018
If you were among the several hundred packaging professionals that attended the 2018 Global Pouch Forum last June 13-15 in Miami, then you know that one of the big show themes had to do with flexible packaging sustainability and recyclability.
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Industry Q&A: Resins & Raw Materials

Compounds, Additives Continue to Get Greener

July 6, 2018
Flexible Packaging recently caught up with Mark Kay, performance group leader of NOVA Chemicals’ polyethylene business. Here’s a look at what he had to say about the development of such materials and how they factor into a sustainable packaging future.
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Cover Story

2018 Top 25 Converters: Race to the Top

Packaging innovation, investments and mergers and acquisitions continue to define the top 25 converters in North America.
July 5, 2018
Reading this, you'll see what each converter has been up to in the past year. It’s evident that this list is going to look very different next year. The race is on. On that note, we present our 2018 Top 25 Converters in North America feature, based off of sales information from the 2017 calendar year.
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Technology: Specialty Films

The State of Sustainable Films

Eric Fish
July 3, 2018
Last March, Steven Sargeant, Ph.D., the general manager of R&D/technology for Flex Films International, gave a presentation on sustainability at a conference in the Chicago area.
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