The EPS Industry Alliance (www.epsindustry.org) has been established as a new trade association to represent the expanded polystyrene (EPS) industry. The EPS Molders Association (EPSMA) and the Alliance of Foam
World demand for aseptic packaging is projected to grow 9.1% per year to $35.8 billion in 2015. Advances will be driven by the increasing number of applications and the cost
IFS Management GmbH (www.ifs-certification.com), owner of the GFSI benchmarked IFS Food standard, IFS Logistics and other food supply chain standards, and The Packaging Association of Canada (PAC; www.pac.ca) have joined
After months of pressure from consumer, public health and concerned parents' organizations, Campbell's Soup Company announced to shareholders recently that it will phase out the use of the toxic chemical
In the most recent research conducted by Perception Research Services (www.prsresearch.com), shoppers demonstrate that they are interested in choosing environmentally-friendly packaging. Significantly more shoppers state they would like to choose environmentally
Orders for motion control products jumped 17.7% in 2011, according to new statistics released by the Motion Control Association (MCA; www.MotionControlOnline.org), the industry’s global trade group. Gains also occurred in
Recognizing the growing interest in increasing recycled content in packaging as a sustainability strategy, GreenBlue’s (www.greenblue.org) Sustainable Packaging Coalition has released a report on the opportunities and challenges for using
A new spring Society of Plastics Engineers (SPE, www.4spe.org) FastTrack training program has just been announced. The topics have been designed to enhance injection molding, extrusion molding, blow molding and
FINAT (www.finat.com), the world-wide association for the self-adhesive labels and related products, announces the entry and participation details of its annual international labeling competition and the provisional program of its
PACK EXPO International 2012, which comes to Chicago’s McCormick Place October 28–31, has already seen space sales top 1 million net square feet. “Reaching this milestone this far out from