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.

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.

It’s no news to the flexible packaging industry that consumers want to recycle their plastic products, but companies play a key role in making it possible – and much more convenient – for them to do so.

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.

New developments in flexible packaging aren't just making the packaging format more convenient for the consumer, but for the environment as well.

The global standup pouches market is expected to grow at 8.78 percent CAGR from 2016 to 2020, according to a new report by Technavio.