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Coveris S.A.  has acquired Supraplast, a Guayaquil, Ecuador-based shrink sleeve and adhesive label technologies company. 

Within an industrial park on the outskirts of downtown Columbus, Ohio sits a quarter-mile long, 100,000 square-foot facility that produces hundreds of millions of packages each year.

An alternative to transparent barrier film containing PVdC (polyvinylidene chloride) has been on the wish list of food manufacturers, CPGs and converters for years.

Q: What are some important factors that must be considered when it comes to adhesive usage and flexible packaging?

Rotoflex has released the Vericut3, which the company says is the next generation of its premier off-line finishing solutions for digital and conventional printed web label finishing.

To further accelerate the development of packaging innovation, the Dow Chemical Company announces a global innovation and business development agreement with Nordmeccanica SpA, a leader in coating, laminating and metallizing machinery.

Nova Chemicals Corp. has appointed Julie Beck as its new senior vice president and chief financial officer, effective Feb. 29. 

 Constantia Flexibles is investing in new capacity at its manufacturing site in Burgos, Spain. The total investment is approximately four million euro.

UPM Raflatac has received Clean Industry certification for its label stock slitting and distribution operations in Tultitlan, Mexico. 

The flexible packaging market is rising to unprecedented heights – and 2016 looks to be another big year.