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Students Demonstrate Future Workforce of Robots

If the future workplace is filled with machines running on artificial intelligence and robotics, workers will be needed to create the machines, run them, and then make repairs as the robots falter. That thinking was on display at PACK EXPO Las Vegas.

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Plastic Circularity Fund Takes Shape

Plastic Circularity Fund Takes Shape

The Alliance to End Plastic Waste recently announced that the Plastic Circularity Fund, which will be managed by Lombard Odier Investment Managers, is ready for investment in companies. The fund secured private equity capital from institutional and other accredited investors. The Alliance is a seed investor with a $10 million capital contribution to the fund. […]

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Panelists: Packaging Design Can Be Influenced Through Eco-Modulation

Panelists: Packaging Design Can Be Influenced Through Eco-Modulation

Extender producer responsibility programs can be enhanced by giving companies financial incentives to evolve packaging through eco-design while imposing penalties on packaging that hinders circularity efforts. Those incentives and penalties are the core concepts of eco-modulation.

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Panel Discusses End-Market Solutions for Recyclables

Panel Discusses End-Market Solutions for Recyclables

Jason Pelz has some basic advice for brands when it comes to developing end markets for recyclables: “You have to get engaged.” That may be obvious, but obvious doesn’t necessarily translate into action.

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FPA Names New Leaders to Its Board and Emerging Leadership Council

FPA Names New Leaders to Its Board and Emerging Leadership Council

William Jackson, Ph.D., chief technology officer of Amcor Flexibles, has been named to a two-year term as chair of Flexible Packaging Association’s board of directors. Kasie Fairbarn, a member of the chair’s advisory council, has been elected co-chair of the Emerging Leadership Council.

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JBM Packaging Recognized for Hiring Program

Company Says New Certification Validates Its Commitment to Recruiting Formerly Incarcerated Workers, Other Social Initiatives

In 2015, JBM Packaging was looking for new ways to recruit workers—and that was long before the intense labor shortages of the past few years. The company, which is based in Ohio, considered several ideas, including hiring and training people who have experienced incarceration. Working with various agencies and others in the Cincinnati region, JBM […]

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Taking Chances Leads to Top Job

Taking Chances Leads to Top Job

Anoosheh Oskouian, CEO and President, Ship & Shore Environmental, Inc.

We talk to Anoosheh Oskouian about her career at Ship & Shore Sheet Metal, her professional challenges as president and CEO, and her advice for women thinking about entering a technical field.

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Biden Administration Pushes Plans for Plastic Alternatives

Biden Administration Pushes Plans for Plastic Alternatives

The Goal is to Replace 90% of Plastics Within 20 Years

President Joe Biden’s administration continues to promote plans to use biotechnology and biomanufacturing to develop sustainable alternatives across industries, including fuels, medicines, and plastics, with plastics being largely displaced by 2043.

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