The Chicago City Council’s decision to ban plastic shopping bags will damage the plastics manufacturing industry’s ongoing efforts to create and maintain American manufacturing jobs, according to SPI: The Plastics Industry Trade Association.
Pallavi Joyappa has been named chief operating officer of Emerald Packaging, one of the largest flexible packaging manufacturers on the West Coast and one of the biggest suppliers of produce packaging in the country.
Rising demand and new plate offerings prompt additional European facility
May 1, 2014
Toray International America Inc., the premier supplier of Toray printing plates for the North and South American markets, has started its supply of Toray waterless printing plates produced at its new manufacturing facility at Toray Textiles Central Europe (TTCE) in Prostejov, Czech Republic.
Demonstrating its commitment to protecting manufacturers’ brands and advancing packaging innovation and design, H.B. Fuller has invested $1 million in a packaging center of excellence at its North American headquarters.
One printer, one product, two journeys—each focusing on people, planet and profit—took all accolades in Flexographic Technical Association’s newly minted 2014 Sustainability Excellence Awards competition.
Flexible film packaging and bags have been under the microscope by certain groups across the nation, being labeled as environmentally unfriendly without fully examining all the angles and advantages.
Plastic Suppliers, Inc., a Columbus, Ohio-based manufacturer and distributor of bio- and petrochemical-based films, welcomes Ohio Secretary of State Jon Husted to present PSI with an Ohio Business Profile Award.
Pack Expo owner and producer PMMI, The Association for Packaging and Processing Technologies, and the International Society for Pharmaceutical Engineering are pleased to announce their joint venture, Pharma Expo, will make its Las Vegas debut in Fall 2015, co-located with Pack Expo Las Vegas (Sept. 28–30, 2015; Las Vegas Convention Center).
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