Flexible Packaging recently caught up with Sebastian Huennefeld, technical sales manager, extrusion equipment, Windmoeller & Hoelscher, for an update on all-things extrusion.
Currently available pouch manufacturing machines feature critical enhancements that address present market trends and demands such as short production runs, quick changeovers, film alternatives to polyester and recyclability.
North America’s Largest One-Day Packaging Converting Show returns to the historic home of the Green Bay Packers for 2016 event with more than 100 exhibitors in tow
Hundreds of packaging converters, their suppliers and customers will converge at historic Lambeau Field in Green Bay, Wisconsin, April 13 and 14 for the 9th-annual Converters Expo, one of North America’s largest events showcasing equipment and materials suppliers to the converting industry.
For all of the rhetoric and publicity around “electronic packaging” and “smart labels,” there is a fundamental disconnect. Electronic manufacturing, which occupies its own ecosystem, is not naturally part of the brand or packaging manufacturing infrastructure.
Columbus, Ohio-based Atlapac has a balanced business model, consisting of three main pillars: toll converting, cellophane bag production and stock bags/pouches.
Within an industrial park on the outskirts of downtown Columbus, Ohio sits a quarter-mile long, 100,000 square-foot facility that produces hundreds of millions of packages each year.
An alternative to transparent barrier film containing PVdC (polyvinylidene chloride) has been on the wish list of food manufacturers, CPGs and converters for years.