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MonoSol, a division of Kuraray, will invest $72 million to build a water-soluble film manufacturing facility in Lebanon, Indiana.

Brampton Engineering has built off of its Vector air ring product line with the launch of its Vector S. 

Ashok Chaturvedi, founder, chairman and managing director of Uflex Limited has been honored with The Economic Times’ 2018 Polymers Lifetime Achievement Award.

Three demands from consumer packaged goods (CPG) companies — single source solutions, increased machine versatility and a move to flexible packaging—are pushing the packaging industry toward unprecedented heights, according to PMMI’s 2017 State of the Industry – U.S. Packaging Machinery report. 

Mondi Group has joined the ranks of global climate leaders by signing up to Climate Savers, WWF’s climate leadership program for businesses. 

Everyone should know Kit Kat chocolate bars—but did you know the wafer in the center is actually made from broken Kit Kat bars? Kit Kat manufacturers leave no bar uneaten. If quality assurance deems that a certain Kit Kat is not up to standards, it will go in the reject pile, ready to be crushed and used to fill other Kit Kats.

DS Smith Plastics’ Rapak North America division has released an NSF-approved REOS line-side connector for commercial bag-in-box edible oil dispensing systems. 

Transcontinental has acquired Multifilm Packaging Corporation, a flexible packaging supplier located in Elgin, Illinois, employing about 70 people. 

Uflex has become the first Indian company to manufacture a glitter printing rotogravure cylinder on its direct laser engraving line. 

ITW Pillar Technologies, manufacturer of advanced surface treatment and induction cap sealing systems, has been granted a patent for the industry’s first on-board Maintenance Indicator for corona treatment systems.