Packaging Strategies’ third annual Global Pouch West is moving to Las Vegas December 7-8 for one-and-a-half days’ worth of educational sessions, networking and a tabletop exhibition hall.

Kim West, Simco-Ion marketing manager, discusses the perils of improper static control, new developments for hazardous environments and why static control is arguably more important than ever in the winter months.

In just under 25 years, Poly Print has morphed from a regional flexo printer into a national one. It’s branched out from food and beverage markets to serve everything from pharmaceuticals to consumer products.

Packaging Strategies’ third annual event targeted to packaging professionals located west of the Mississippi River will take place from December 7-8 at the Red Rock Casino, Resort & Spa in the foothills of Las Vegas.

A special Q&A on inspection and testing with Dave Muchorski.

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.

A special Q&A on rolls and roll handling with Tom Duffy, Al Waller, and Randy Apperson.