Consumer trends have contributed to a gradual replacement of rigid pack formats by flexible packaging during the last decade or so. Total flexible packaging sales were at $219.5 billion in 2016, with growth expected at an annual rate of 4.3% to $282.6 billion by 2022.
Render, a food company based in Healdsburg, Calif., just launched a snack line called State Bird Seed. A collaboration with award-winning chefs Stuart Brioza and Nicole Krasinski, owners of restaurants State Bird Provisions and The Progress in San Francisco, State Bird Seed is a crunchy mix of puffed quinoa, seeds, herbs and spices that can be enjoyed as a snack or crumbled as a topping on oatmeal and yogurt to salads and meat.
Schur Flexibles Group has acquired Cats-Hansel from the Clondalkin Group, a move that increases Schur’s status as a maker of premium packaging in the confectionary and tea markets.
Sun Chemical has launched its SunLam De-seaming Adhesive for shrink-labeled containers. This new de-seamable adhesive helps recyclers improve recycled polyethylene terephthalate (rPET) yield without process changes.
Packaging machinery sales in the U.S. grew 4.8 percent in 2016, reaching a total of $9.8 billion, according to the “2017 State of the Industry – US Packaging Machinery” report, produced by PMMI, The Association for Packaging and Processing.
Maxcess’ Menges Roller Company division has completed a multi-million dollar expansion that doubles its manufacturing footprint while installing state-of-the-art new equipment.
University researches method to make biodegradable plastic using bacteria and algae. The world is awash in discarded plastics. A recent estimate of the amount of plastic in the earth’s environment puts it at 6.3 billion metric tons.
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