The 2018 PACK EXPO International, held from October 14-17, convened nearly 45,000 attendees with 2,500 exhibitors over 1.25 million net square feet at McCormick Place in Chicago. Show owner and producer PMMI, The Association for Packaging and Processing Technologies, reported 457 new exhibitors this year.
MonoSol joined nine other organizations in winning a 2018 Indiana Innovation Award at a the Day of Innovation ceremony held Oct.11 at Butler University in Indianapolis.
Some buyers are complaining the bulky packaging for newly legalized cannabis is environmentally unfriendly, but producers say government guidelines are to blame.
The Center for the Circular Economy at Closed Loop Partners and the Sustainable Packaging Coalition (SPC) have launched the FlexPack Recovery Challenge, an open competition for innovators, entrepreneurs and start-ups to submit new ideas for reprocessing technologies capable of beneficially recovering multi-material flexible packaging waste.
StePac L.A. Ltd. has launched Xflow, a patented, functional, flowpack solution for blueberries as a cost-saving alternative to traditional preformed bulk packaging. Xflow meets market trends to reduce waste through the supply chain, save labor costs and use leaner plastic packaging.
Three days of onsite voting allowed PACK EXPO International and Healthcare Packaging EXPO attendees to be the ultimate judge of the most innovative new technologies at the show, dubbing seven exhibitors as the winners within their respective categories.
Roll-2-Roll Technologies LLC, developer and manufacturer of intelligent web position sensors and web guides, has partnered with Unilux to represent web guiding products in the Mid-Atlantic and Southeast regions of the United States.
Norton C. Wheeler, Jr., one of Davis-Standard’s most beloved and accomplished technology innovators, passed away the end of September at his home in Mystic, Connecticut. He was 96.
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