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Plastics Plus Digital has installed an HP Indigo 20000 at its Parsippany, N.J. location. The company now offers customizable digital printing of flexible packaging along with lamination and pouch making services.

The Flexible Packaging Association (FPA) has created a new infographic that illustrates why brand owners need to more effectively communicate the environmental benefits of flexible packaging to consumers.

In the last year, as many as 350 brand owners and retailers globally have announced plans to make all of their packaging recyclable, compostable or reusable by the year 2025. At the same time, some of these companies are going a step further by saying they plan to reduce the use of virgin plastics in their packaging — often by as much as 50 percent. 

TC Transcontinental Packaging is adding two Windmoeller & Hoelscher VAREX II blown film lines, including one barrier line for its Whitby, Ontario plant. These new lines will support TC Transcontinental Packaging's growth in multilayer barrier films in North America and are scheduled to start up in the fall of 2019.

As part of IHS Markit’s (IHS) ongoing services to the Flexible Packaging Association (FPA), IHS wrote a follow-up polyethylene report based on the presentation given by Nick Vafiadis, Vice President, Plastics, IHS Markit, at the recent FPA Annual Meeting.

Acucote, a pressure-sensitive adhesive coating manufacturer, has expanded its portfolio with 19 new pressure-sensitive paper and film constructions specifically designed for the pharmaceutical market.

Bison Bag, a full-service flexible packaging converter based in Lockport, NY, has placed an order for a 10 color Windmoeller & Hoelscher Miraflex II M press. This will be Bison Bag’s fourth flexographic press and its first from W&H.

After two years and over 250 prototypes, Chamber Pouch brings a new, patented, dual-chamber capability. Chamber Pouch enables food and CPG companies to create new products, combinations and extensions, generating new brand value.

Across many areas, suppliers are making innovative advances that continue to propel pouches as the fastest-growing packaging segment. Many of these developments are in response to consumers’ demands for more convenience in packaging, at the same time balancing their concerns for protecting the environment.

TLMI announces that the association’s board of directors has approved a series of goals relevant to sustainability and leadership of both the association and its converter and supplier members.