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Five-layer blown film lines for traditional three-layer applications offer property enhancement and sustainable material savings

Nordson Extrusion Dies Industries has developed enhancements to extrusion coating dies and internal deckles that make it possible for converters to reduce edge bead with low melt strength polymers while maintaining coat weight uniformity

The dsX flex-pack is Davis-Standard’s competitively priced extrusion coating line.

FPA is partnering with CSMM comprised of industry associations and waste management companies that are committed to increasing the recycling and recovery of packaging and printed paper

Recently, the Flexible Packaging Association issued its first quarter 2014 ‘Pulse of the Industry” Report which examines the relative performance for net sales, volume, profitability, inventory levels, capital spending and capacity utilization of flexible packaging converters.

The Flexible Packaging Association recently released one of its benchmarking reports.

FPA President Marla Donahue and Ram Singhal, VP of Technology and Environmental Strategy recently toured the Milpitas, California Republic Services Material Recovery Facility to see the progress of the “Energy Bag” pilot program

With almost 47,000 products on the shelves of the average supermarket, the competition for shelf space and market share has never been greater

Effective September 1, 2014, or as contracts allow, BASF will increase prices for numerous pigments and dyes by up to 15 percent worldwide.

Haver Filling Systems Inc., provider of automated bagging- and liquid-filling machines, has added fully automated bag-palletizing machines manufactured by Newtec Bag Palletizing to its line of bulk material packaging equipment.