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The world is getting smaller, says Howard Wright, creative director of design agency Equator. “Globalization has not just created opportunity for brands and retailers to widen their customer base internationally, it’s also driving consumer demand for a more diverse choice of products that allows them to experience what they’ve seen online, on TV or in their travels from the comfort of their own home.”

Karlville extends an invitation to all Global Pouch Forum attendees to participate in its Miami Headquarters Facility Tour, held prior to the start of the Forum on June 14, as part of the conference’s 20th year activities agenda.

Cyclo Industries, a premier specialty automotive chemicals company, introduces the nation’s first debossed aerosol can.

The Ellen MacArthur Foundation, along with The Prince of Wales's International Sustainability Unit, launch a $2 million New Plastics Economy Innovation Prize, which calls for innovators to find new ways of designing packaging to help keep plastics out of the ocean. 

New packaging equipment is being developed to help end users with challenging carton profiles, like beer baskets that showcase the expanding universe of craft beers, or delicate cigarette boxes, and even the brave new world of marijuana packaging and bottles made from completely recycled materials. 

Global counterfeiting is being driven by several factors: increased industrialization, technologies, the impact of the internet, vulnerable supply chains, the power of consumerism, weak or ineffectual regional law enforcement and lenient criminal penalties among others.

Visitors at Global Pouch will learn how Sun Chemical’s SunBar (Aerobloc) oxygen barrier coatings offers converters with cost effective, durable, and sustainable films that support lighter weight packaging trends by creating a homogenous, pinhole-free and flexible gas barrier layer that can be easily overprinted with inks and laminated to a variety of secondary films. 

Many craft brewers take circuitous career routes. Cory King, owner of Maplewood Missouri’s Side Project Brewing, is no exception.

Under the motto “Apple taste as it used to be,” the premium brand of fruit and vegetables SanLucar presents its Opal® apple in an attractive and new retro packaging. The new packaging with 6 Opal® apples is available in a limited edition. 

Crown Holdings Inc. recently opened a new beverage can manufacturing plant in Nichols, New York. The state-of-the-art plant, which marks the industry’s first greenfield facility in the U.S. in more than 20 years, will support the country’s growing demand for specialty beverage cans.