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Flexible Packaging recently caught up with Michael Pappas, president of Catbridge Machinery, for a discussion on all things slitting/rewinding.

In the Jan/Feb installment of Roundtable, we sit down with Eric Smith, Vice President of Technology for Charter NEX and Eric Bender, Market Development Manager, New Platforms for Jindal Films Americas.

For Fritz Yambrach, professor and director of packaging at San Jose State University in California, decades of experience in the packaging industry and concern for access to water in impoverished or disaster areas led to an idea for a simple, yet life-changing solution: the Fritz Water Vest.

Back in 2014, INEOS announced that they were halting the production of Barex resins, the acclaimed resins used in chemical-resistant packaging. The announcement shook the flexible packaging industry...

Flexible Packaging caught up with Daniels following the purchase and installation of an Indigo 20000 press in fall 2016, which it plans to use for its growing shrink sleeve, flexible packaging and labels business in the microbrewery, supplement and nutraceuticals markets, among others.

While static-neutralizing equipment may be one of the more niche components involved in packaging, it’s still of great importance to creating a successful end product.

Flexible packaging continues to be a solution to societal challenges like food waste and changing consumer lifestyles, and 2017 looks to be another big year.

The Annual Flexible Packaging Achievement Awards, sponsored by the Flexible Packaging Association, features innovative entries in consumer convenience, design and graphics, shelf appeal, sustainability, technical innovation, and extending the use of flexible packaging.

MOCON has launched its OX-TRAN 2/12 oxygen permeation instrument, which is designed to help produce marketers and their material suppliers gather oxygen permeation data quickly and more efficiently to help meeting shelf-life goals. 

American Packaging’s Engineered Laminations & Coatings Center of Excellence, located in Rochester, New York, has reached zero landfill status.