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Amcor introduces first high-barrier, high-speed, recycle-ready liquid pouch packaging solution. Amcor Flexibles North America continues to forge an innovative path to its 2025 sustainability goal. This time, the stepstone is the combination of critical machinability performance and barrier characteristics for product protection of shelf-stable liquid foods. AmPrima™ PE Plus recycle ready solutions provide brand owners with innovative packaging that supports recyclabi

Ranpak Holdings Corp., a global leader of environmentally sustainable, paper-based packaging solutions for e-commerce and industrial supply chains, announced today the acquisition of Recycold Cool Solutions BV (“Recycold”), a manufacturer of sustainable cool packs. Unlike typical cool packs, Recycold Cool Packs are made from a drain safe, plant-based gel and their addition expands the diversity of Ranpak’s Cold Chain packaging solutions. “We are thrilled to a

Wynnchurch Capital, L.P. (“Wynnchurch”), a leading middle market private equity firm, announced today that it has acquired the thermal coating business assets of Appvion Holding Corp. and its subsidiaries (“Appvion” or the “Company”). Founded in 1907 and headquartered in Appleton, Wisconsin, Appvion is a leading provider of specialty and high-performance direct thermal coatings for label and film solutions as well as renewable, fiber-based consumer and indu

Leading cardboard packaging and point of sale display specialist, Ability Diseño Gráfico (Ability DG), has invested in a third Kongsberg digital cutting solution to boost productivity and efficiency at its state-of-the-art facility in Murcia, Spain. With more than 20 years’ experience, the specialist company is one of the market leaders in high quality large format flexo and digital printing. Already using the Kongsberg XP44 and Kongsberg C60 cutting table, the c

The Corona pandemic pushes digitization forward. Since the beginning of 2020, the disruption of the printing sector has accelerated significantly. "Traditional customers of the printing ink industry are disappearing, but at the same time new growth opportunities are emerging for print products," reports Oliver Kutsch, Managing Director of Ceresana. This is the fourth time that the market research institute has examined the global printing inks market. The new study forecasts that th

Green-tech start-up Melodea, Ltd. joins the sustainable packaging scene to take on the plastic waste crisis. The company developed MelOx™, a high-performance, plant-sourced barrier coating that protects packaged products from oxygen and oil and grease transmission. The company also developed Melodea VBcoat™ that protects packaged goods from water vapor and oil and grease transmission. Unlike existing materials used for such purpose like plastics and aluminum, Melodea sou

PAC Machinery announces a new custom air expeller option for the Rollbag Magnum Horizontal, ideal for compressing, bagging and sealing a wide array of items. “The pneumatic air expeller is a great development for removing excess air in a package resulting in reduced package volume, lower shipping costs and minimizes inventory space requirements,” said Greg Berguig, VP of Sales and Marketing. The air expeller option was recently designed and engineered for the M

GPA Global is delighted to announce that it has completed the acquisition of ASG’s print & packaging facility in Pruszków, Poland, together with the print technical sales offices in the UK, France and the Netherlands. The Pruszków plant specializes in producing high-quality folding cartons and rigid boxes along with other specialist paper and board products. New parent company GPA Global was originally founded in China under the name Green Packaging

Selig Group , owned by CC Industries, announced today that it has acquired Manufacture Générale de Joints . Founded in 1947 and headquartered near Lyon, France, MGJ is a leading supplier of foam-based liners worldwide. Through decades of investment, MGJ has developed differentiated foam-based products for an expansive range of applications. The combination provides Selig with highly complementary adjacent capabilities to serve its customers more broadly on a global basis and wil

VanEck today announced the launch of the VanEck Future of Food ETF , an actively managed equity ETF that provides exposure to companies engaged in agri-food technology and innovation. YUMY is the first VanEck ETF to incorporate bottom-up, fundamental company research and will be overseen by portfolio managers Shawn Reynolds and Ammar James. “The growing global population and the concurrent threats from climate change are driving the need for more sustainable agri-foo

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Global beauty company Amorepacific and global specialty materials provider Eastman announce their collaboration to introduce sustainable packaging solutions using Eastman's molecular recycling technologies. LANEIGE will be the first Amorepacific brand to utilize packaging made from Eastman Cristal™ Renew copolyester with certified recycled content* as early as December 2021.  "Cristal Renew and Eastman's innovative molecular recycling technologies will play a

Oceana released the following statement from Matt Littlejohn, Oceana’s Senior Vice President of Strategic Initiatives, in response to Amazon’s reported decision to replace single-use plastics with paper and cardboard alternatives in Germany. Oceana is campaigning to get Amazon to reduce its single-use plastic packaging and to offer plastic-free alternatives to customers around the world: “The news that Amazon will eliminate single-use plastic packaging in Germany c

The Smurfit Kappa Bag-in-Box Ibi facility in Spain has started the production of bags with a new and more sustainable thermo-laminated metallised film – M-Compact 77. Thanks to the thermo-lamination technology, which bonds individual films together through exposure to heat without using the adhesives that are required for classic lamination, production of M-Compact 77 is more environmentally friendly and resource efficient. Smurfit Kappa has achieved a 12% bag weight reduction

CyberOptics® Corporation , a leading global developer and manufacturer of high-precision 3D sensing technology solutions will share a technical presentation at the Heterogeneous Integration Global Summit organized by SEMICON Taiwan Dec 1-3rd. The company will also exhibit WaferSense® and ReticleSense® sensors and feature the WX3000™ Metrology and Inspection system in booths I3128, L0310, J2434 and K2106 at TaiNEX 1, Taipei, Dec 28-30th. Dr. Charlie Zhu, Director of