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The Dow Chemical Company has signed on as a funding sponsor of The Recycling Partnership. Company officials say the collaboration is an important step in Dow’s journey to reach its 2025 Sustainability Goals, which include turning materials formerly considered waste into new products.

Label Specialties Inc., a trade-only label converter in Louisville, Kentucky, has received approval to produce drum labels on flexographic presses that fully meet the Globally Harmonized System (GHS) requirements for overseas shipments.

Hundreds of packaging converters, their suppliers and customers will converge at historic Lambeau Field in Green Bay, Wisconsin, April 13 and 14 for the 9th-annual Converters Expo, one of North America’s largest events showcasing equipment and materials suppliers to the converting industry.

For all of the rhetoric and publicity around “electronic packaging” and “smart labels,” there is a fundamental disconnect. Electronic manufacturing, which occupies its own ecosystem, is not naturally part of the brand or packaging manufacturing infrastructure.

Back in 2010, roll-to-roll printed electronics was the frontier of universities and researchers.

Coim Group USA has achieved upgraded FDA status for its Novacote NC-250/70 solvent-based adhesive.

Flexible Packaging recently caught up with Jim Cirigliano, Magnum Inks & Coatings marketing manager, to get his thoughts on sustainability when it comes to inks.

Clondalkin Flexible Packaging, Kirchberg, a subsidiary of The Clondalkin Group and specialist producer of shrink sleeves, die cut lids and lidding foils, has launched a new, ultra-thin shrink sleeve – a breakthrough development in down-gauging when it comes to shrink sleeves.

DCM North America, a 63-year-old manufacturer of printing and converting machinery for flexible packaging, will be hosting a two-day open house and product demonstration at its newly opened North American facility in New Berlin, Wisconsin, April 19 and 20. 

Clondalkin Flexible Packaging Bury has produced the shrink sleeves for a new range of water from the Powerful Water Company (POW).