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The global flexible packaging industry enjoyed a strong year in 2017 with a sales growth rate once again significantly higher than U.S. GDP. All segments of the flexible packaging industry took part in this growth, but growth for value-added flexible packaging was even higher.

The recent series of Vision 2025 focus groups conducted by PMMI, The Association for Packaging and Processing Technologies, captured an increasingly popular sentiment throughout the packaging community.

Pamarco has announced an agreement to represent the flexographic and converting product lines of Graymills and GAMA in North America. 

Sun Chemical has launched SunCure Accuflex UV, a new UV ink system for primary and secondary food packaging that is not manufactured with Bisphenol A (BPA)-based materials and meets low migration specifications.

Magnum Manufacturing has appointed Eric Cathie as its new technical director for its Inks & Coatings division and David Hagen as its new director of sales for its Tapes & Films division. 

Fisher Container Holdings, LLC (Fisher) has rebranded its subsidiaries Fisher Container, LLC and Packaging Products Corporation, LLC (PPC) into a lone new entity: PPC Flexible Packaging. 

ebeam Technologies has launched its ebeam Core 100/760, an EB curing system for high performance finishing of labels and flexible packaging materials printed on an HP Indigo 20000 Digital Press. 

MacDermid Graphics Solutions has announced its Diamond Partner membership in the European Flexographic Industry Association (EFIA), an organization of key leaders in the printed packaging industry. 

Flint Group is launching EkoCure XS – a UV LED ink series with good adhesion and post shrink performance on shrink substrates.