uLab launches custom packaging service
uLab Systems, the creator of uSmile clear aligners and uDesign treatment…
Pregis to open new Atlanta area manufacturing facility
Pregis will invest over $14 million in a manufacturing…
Trivium Packaging releases inaugural sustainability report
Trivium Packaging released its inaugural sustainability report that highlights…
Spectrum Plastics Group acquires KCS Plastics
Spectrum Plastics Group announced the acquisition of substantially all…
Trivium Packaging signs United Nations Global Compact Initiative
Trivium Packaging announced its commitment to the United Nations…
Sandvik launches smart packaging solution
Sandvik Coromant, part of Sandvik Group’s machining solutions division, will launch…
CPA partners with ECPA
The Association for Contract Packaging and Manufacturing (CPA) will…
Supremex appoints Chief Financial Officer
Supremex Inc. announced the appointment of Mary Chronopoulos as Chief Financial…
Q&A: Interview with Kim Nelson from Royal Containers
Plant’s associate editor, Maryam Farag, spoke with Kim Nelson,…
Tim Hortons to test deposit program for returnable coffee cups, packaging
Cups and food containers would then be cleaned, sanitized and used again.
Transcontinental benefits from short-term wage subsidy
Most of its revenue decline was in printing, which services newspaper and flyer producers.
Vegpro, Cascades partner on 100% recycled plastic packaging for salads
New containers improve airflow and prolong conservation time by limiting the build up of excess humidity.
Cascades launches new packaging line for e‑commerce
Sustainable products and services to ensure quality and delivery reliability for online products.
$3M in federal funding to cut plastic food, construction waste
Three companies winners of the government’s plastics innovation challenge, part of a plan to ban many single-use plastics by 2021.
CCL Industries buying Polish BOPP film company Flexpol for $22M
Allows the company to deliver label films in Europe using the same technology it has in Innovia Mexico for the Americas.
Cascades launches a 100% recycled, recyclable cardboard food tray
Patented water-based barrier coating protects it against humidity to enhance the packaging efficiency.
TC Transcontinental selling paper, polypropylene packaging business
Hood Packaging will acquire paper packaging operations and buildings in Iowa, Pennsylvania and Georgia.
F&B packagers focus on sustainable solutions: Frost & Sullivan
Adoption of biodegradable, recyclable paper and aluminum-based packaging materials will drive fresh growth.
Fast food players take tentative steps towards sustainable packaging
Canada is set to ban single-use plastics by 2021.
Pack Expo Las Vegas
Presented by the Association for Packaging and Processing Technologies.…
PEI potato shortage blamed as Cavendish Farms closes packaging plant
Shortfall of 68 million kilograms in 2017; bought from new sources on the island as well as from producers in other provinces.
Pack Expo International 2018
Pack Expo International brings together end users and suppliers…
Transcontinental to diminish printing role with $1.3B packaging deal
$1.32 billion purchase of Coveris Americas makes it North America’s seventh-largest packaging company.
Transcontinental buys Multifilm Packaging, a US snack, candy packager
The company’s sixth acquisition since entering the flexible packaging industry.
