In this interview, Keith Smith, CEO of Vonco Products, talks about how makers of medical packaging are borrowing a page or two from the consumer sector when it comes to developing innovative and sustainable packaging solutions.

Premium Label & Packaging Solutions announced in June that Overnight Labels in Deer Park, New York, won a Bronze Award at the 30th Annual Gold Leaf Awards for Best Use of Cold Foil.

We look at foil packaging from three different but equally intriguing perspectives.

Inapel will add to Sonoco’s existing flexible packaging operation in Pinhais, Brazil.

Findings show that paper, paperboard and fiberboard plant-based biodegradable flexible packaging, along with synthetic biodegradable packaging, are the most common materials being used to replace less sustainable alternatives like plastic, paper and foil packaging.  

Five technology innovations and trends are creating new value in metal packaging.

Uncertainty about the availability and price of aluminum foil used for packaging applications, in response to the antidumping duty (AD) and countervailing duty (CVD) investigations led by the U.S. Department of Commerce, is prompting CPG companies and converters to consider alternative substrates and creative solutions. Toray Plastics (America) Inc. offers MET OPP and MET PET films available to replace foil.