Spring has sprung, and many printing and converting companies are opening research centers, design centers and full-service test labs to help brands find their pathway to circularity.
The entire flexible packaging ecosystem — converters, co–packers, brands, extruders — is experiencing a rapid technology shift toward sustainability, and so many consumer packaged goods (CPG) companies are looking for flexible packaging material testing.
Attendees at this year’s Global Pouch Forum will be in for a treat as we use the event’s 25th anniversary to explore the history and evolution of the pouch.
Tailored has partnered with Bluesource — to support verified urban forestry, sustainable forest management and rural cookstove programs that are designed to reduce or prevent greenhouse gases from entering the atmosphere, and TerraCycle — to transform its packaging into recyclable materials.
Northstar Clean Technologies Inc., a clean technology company focused on the sustainable recovery and reprocessing of asphalt shingles, has developed a proprietary design process for taking discarded asphalt shingles and extracting the liquid asphalt, aggregate and fiber for usage in new hot mix asphalt, construction products and other industrial applications.
The ocean-bound plastic is converted using advanced recycling into an alternative feedstock, which is used to produce certified circular polymers for further processing to flexible packaging film.