Flexible Packaging Markets

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Seldom before in history has an industry in its infancy faced such trials and tribulations as the flexible packaging industry, especially in the past 15 years.

The US stand-up pouch market has seen dramatic growth over the past five years, increasing by 50 percent in unit volume terms to approaching 17 billion units in 2013.

For the second time in three years, Clear Lam Packaging Inc. has been awarded a PMA Impact Award for Excellence in Packaging.

A recent study conducted by the Natural Resources Defense Council, and Harvard Food Law and Policy Clinic has found that 90 percent of Americans mistake the "use by" dates on food products for expiration dates.

Perception is a powerful force – powerful enough to influence retail grocers and protein processors to slow their adoption of flexible next-generation vacuum packaging formats.

While the focus for flexible packaging suppliers has been firmly on sustainability issues as much as performance in recent years, a new generation of packaging technologists is looking at new, and potentially ground breaking, nanomaterials and coatings to create new products.