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.

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.