Flexible Packaging Markets

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Constantia Flexibles Group has appointed Pierre-Henri Bruchon as the executive vice president of its Pharma division, effective Jan 1. 2016. 

Jindal Films is launching its new range of Digilyte food packaging and labeling films at Labelexpo from September 29 - October 2.

Dr. Gregory Pace, a manager of global regulatory affairs at Sun Chemical, will discuss the impact of varying approaches to the regulation of packaging inks in North America and Europe, including brand owners and nations within Europe setting their own standards, and the resulting impact within the food packaging industry to ensure that the inks and coatings are compliant in their export markets. 

In the 1980s and earlier, the makers of high-quality offset printed paperboard cereal cartons, toothpaste cartons, over-the-counter or prescription drug cartons (i.e. Tylenol), and other food or pharmaceutical carton providers were happy in their plants living like this:

Here’s a story that happened this summer. A crate of avocados traveled from California to British Columbia. Upon receiving the shipment, the distributor realized the whole crate of fruit was rotten and completely unsellable.

How can flexible packaging “shake up” the cereal market?