Green Day guitarist/frontman Billie Joe Armstrong and bassist Mike Dirnt, who own Oakland Coffee Works, help introduce coffee pods and bags made from compostable materials.
October 27, 2016
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.
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.