Ten students received scholarships from PMMI, which supports immediate family members of member company employees who are interested in packaging and processing careers.
Check out the online video review of the Flexible Packaging Association’s annual State of the Industry report delivered at the recent 2019 Global Pouch Forum.
Engineered equipment company Duravant expands its global offerings with acquisition of Motion06, an Austrian manufacturer of specialized conveyor modules.
UPM Raflatac announces that its pressure sensitive label factory in Mills River is the first manufacturing facility in North Carolina whose electrical supply is generated entirely by renewable sources.
Jabil Packaging Solutions introduces a new suite of sustainable packaging services that enable CPG brands to deliver innovative sustainable packaging formats into the marketplace.
Borealis announces the introduction of a new plastics recycling technology, Borcycle, that will be used to produce high-quality compounds made of recycled polyolefins.
The shipments value of primary plastics machinery (injection molding and extrusion) in North America declined in the first quarter of 2019, according to the Plastics Industry Association.
European companies Neste and LyondellBasell have announced the first parallel production of bio-based polypropylene and bio-based low-density polyethylene at a commercial scale.
Canada-based Premier Tech has acquired IDTec Automatización,a leading integrator of robotic systems specialized in end-of-line applications and material handling solutions in Mexico.