Flexible Packaging Equipment

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

With a mission to manufacture and supply sustainable flexible packaging for the pre-packaged food and consumer products markets, Sugar Land, Texas-based Accredo Packaging is no stranger to viable, eco-friendly practices.

Q: When it comes to film, it seems that “thinner, stronger, stiffer” is the motto in flexible packaging. Are there any other film trends that you’re seeing or that you anticipate seeing?

Wausau, Wisconsin-based Roastar is now a full-blown flexible packaging company, having just increased its pouch-making prowess with the startup of a new Mamata flat-bottom pouch machine.

Matt Fyffe, VP/general manager, Meech USA, talks innovation in static control equipment, the science of static and why it needs to be taken seriously in converting environments.

Q: How important is speed when it comes to bag/pouch-making machinery? Presently, what is your fastest machine?

In this video, Butterball’s Corporate Project Manager Matt Giroux discusses line efficiency, technological advancements of line design, automation of lines and robotics on packaging lines.

While the U.S. flexible packaging industry has been growing at about 4 percent a year for the past decade, there is still plenty of opportunity.

Minneapolis-based Mocon, an international provider of instruments and services for testing, measuring and analyzing invisible gases, has promoted its previous vice president of sales and marketing for the company's packaging testing products and services segment, Karsten Kejlhof, to vice president of sales and marketing for its package testing and permeation businesses.

Find out how flexo helped Palmas Printing transition to the flexible packaging market, how digital printing helped Ercus Group bring social awareness through packaging, and Amgraph's focus on sustainable printing operations.