This summer, the Flexible Packaging Association (FPA) coordinated a program that brought together approximately 35 interns from across various companies in the packaging and flexible packaging industries.
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Exploring Automation
Challenges Abound For Packagers
In the post-pandemic age, automation is more than a solution for labor shortages. It’s the future in a quest for efficiencies, agility, and competitiveness.
Finding Workers
Experts: Problems Will Linger Long After Pandemic
Openings at American Packaging Corp. run the gamut from entry-level production jobs to engineering positions, says Jeff Fuller, the Columbus, Ohio-based company’s manager of organizational development.
Tapping Tech Schools
Worker Shortages Prompt Proactive Steps
After an FPA Emerging Leadership Council (ELC) committee on recruitment was formed last year, its members quickly determined that they would need to branch out beyond traditional internship programs.
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Emerging Leaders Discuss Careers
Members of the FPA Emerging Leadership Council See Vast Opportunities
The industry doesn’t have to look far when it comes to showing career development and interest. Several members of the FPA Emerging Leadership Council (ELC) discuss what got them into the industry and how their careers have gone so far.
Interns and Opportunities
FPA Program Connects Industry Interns With Each Other and Mentors
How do we move packaging sustainability dialogue forwards – and in the right direction?
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More >Fortis Solutions Group Buys Quality Tape and Label
October 26, 2021
Fortis Solutions Group, LLC, reported recently that it has bought Quality Tape and Label of Georgia.
Read MorePrivate Equity Firm Buys PPC
October 12, 2021
Private equity firm GTCR has closed on its purchase of PPC Flexible Packaging of Buffalo Grove, Illinois.
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PRESIDENT'S MESSAGE
EPR Bills Veer From Norms
Sept/Oct 2021
Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) legislation passed in two states this year—or did it?
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Griff Donates Space and Nonperishable Goods
Sept/Oct 2021
Since 2008, Griff Paper and Film has donated space in one of its warehouses in Fallsington, Pennsylvania, to a nonprofit organization.
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