Increasing consumer demands for convenient packages, coupled with an industry-wide push for sustainable shelf-ready designs has the global flexible packaging market poised to eclipse the $290 billion mark by 2023.
The Dover Flexo Electronics SteadyWeb6 Tension Controller combines a full-featured, automatic, closed-loop tension control unit with an intuitive user interface for the web process industries.
Plastics Plus Digital has installed an HP Indigo 20000 at its Parsippany, N.J. location. The company now offers customizable digital printing of flexible packaging along with lamination and pouch making services.
TC Transcontinental Packaging is adding two Windmoeller & Hoelscher VAREX II blown film lines, including one barrier line for its Whitby, Ontario plant. These new lines will support TC Transcontinental Packaging's growth in multilayer barrier films in North America and are scheduled to start up in the fall of 2019.
Twenty-seven winners have been selected as recipients of a coveted 2019 AmeriStar Award, a prestigious design award for the packaging industry, produced by IoPP, The Institute of Packaging Professionals.
Acucote, a pressure-sensitive adhesive coating manufacturer, has expanded its portfolio with 19 new pressure-sensitive paper and film constructions specifically designed for the pharmaceutical market.
Bison Bag, a full-service flexible packaging converter based in Lockport, NY, has placed an order for a 10 color Windmoeller & Hoelscher Miraflex II M press. This will be Bison Bag’s fourth flexographic press and its first from W&H.
Fortis Solutions Group LLC announces the acquisition of Label Technology Inc., an award-winning printer of flexible packaging, stand-up pouches, and pressure sensitive labels.