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FPA members Ron Cotterman, PhD, Vice President of Sustainability, Sealed Air and Jeff Wooster, Dow Performance Packaging, North America were session panelists during the two day SAVE FOOD Congress, May 7-8, held in conjunction with Interpack, in Düsseldorf, Germany.

“Sustainability will change the way we do business around the world—be a part of what’s next” is the tag line Walmart used on every slide presented during their Sustainability Expo and conference held on April 29

RG Engineering, a custom-design equipment manufacturer of printing, coating, laminating and converting equipment offers 100 percent servo-drive technology that provides hands-free-, computer-managed- and automatically controlled settings throughout the press-run cycles.

American Roller rolls out the new Arcotron CL800, a break-through in corona-covering technology.

Sun Chemical’s Betsy Bevis will discuss innovative changes in functional coatings for the packaging industry during a panel discussion on June 12 during the 2014 Global Pouch Forum.

Thin Film Electronics ASA has announced that it has successfully demonstrated the world’s first Near Field Communication (NFC)-enabled printed smart label.

Flint Group Narrow Web introduces a new range of opaque white inks in the EkoCure series; the latest development in UV LED free radical technology for use on shrink sleeves with no limitation in shrink, company officials say.

Fujifilm North America Corp., Graphic Systems Division has recently installed industry-leading print solutions, including the Acuity Advance Select at Simpsons Printing, a Rapid City, S.D.-based print provider, family owned since 1965.

Registration is open for the 2014 TAPPI Extrusion Coating Course, Aug. 12-14, 2014 in Appleton, Wis.

Sonoco, one of the largest diversified global packaging companies, has opened its new Display and Packaging office in Bentonville, Ark., which will provide point-of-purchase displays and fulfillment services.