Sustainability
Curbside-recyclable standup pouch earns top Dow Packaging honor Paid Members Public
Melbourne, Australia-based O F Packaging has earned the 2021 Diamond Award in the annual Dow Packaging Innovation Awards program. The flex-pack converter’s curbside-recyclable, high-barrier standup pouch for Brookfarm’s line of toasted muesli breakfast cereals (see Figure 1) demonstrated excellence in all three judging criteria, according to a panel
VACUUM VERBIAGE: How can polymer marking improve packaging recycling rates? Paid Members Public
In the area of brand authentication, anti-counterfeiting and supply-chain verification, it is common to use overt or covert marking of the product or packaging. The features used for marking include colored fibers; specialist inks, such as infrared, fluorescing, color-shifting, metallic or holographic inks; barcodes; two-dimensional (snowflake) barcodes; and/or embossed
Halogen-free Flame Retardants for Laminating Adhesives: A Sustainability and Design Perspective Paid Members Public
Presented by Kathryn Cosentino, Alpha Engineered Composites Designing a more sustainable product or process presents a unique technical challenge for engineers to develop solutions that are cost-effective while meeting difficult performance requirements. Rather than considering sustainable development as an isolated initiative, an integrated systems-based approach to technology development with a
Shifting markets, broad range of new legislative efforts mean it’s time to “Unite for Flexibles” Paid Members Public
Supply-chain disruptions, workforce and raw-material availability and price were the stories of 2021 and will continue at least through Q2 2022. Much will depend on the prevalence and trajectory of the COVID-19 virus and its variants, which no one can predict; however, consumer habits certainly have changed for good and
Achieving a true circular economy for plastic packaging Paid Members Public
“Sustainable packages” will not solve our plastic waste problem. Empty plastic food packages are a big part of that waste. When today’s bread-bag film reappears in the market as a new bread bag next month, we have an effective “circular” solution. Click the link below to download the rest
Approaching Sustainability of Flexible Packaging in the Circular Economy Paid Members Public
Approaching Sustainability of Flexible Packaging in the Circular Economy presented by Vincent Martinez Sanz
