Continuing the Meet the FPA Staff series, FlexPack VOICE® catches up with Chris Burt, FPA’s director of industry information.
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Companies that expect to be covered producers under the extender producer responsibility laws in California, Colorado, and/or Oregon should register by July 1, 2024, with the producer responsibility organization that will implement the laws.
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The hearing before the U.S. Senate Environment and Public Works Committee included discussions that would assign procedures for handling flexible packaging and other waste during their life cycles.
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Bruce Welt, Ph.D., has been perfecting methods to recapture plastics for years and suggests that the processes could revolutionize the recycling industry.
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Participants include universities, research centers, local governments, and economic development agencies, as well as companies such as Avery Dennison, Avient, Bridgestone, Goodyear, Parker Hannifin, and Synthomer.
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Observers expect deliberations on the Recycling Infrastructure and Accessibility Act of 2023 and the Recycling and Composting Accountability Act to continue in 2024
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Continuing the Meet the FPA Staff series, FlexPack VOICE® catches up with John J. Richard, FPA’s director of government relations.
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For 2024, businesses will continue to face a volatile economic environment, but growth is expected in 2025.
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Continuing the Meet the FPA Staff series, FlexPack VOICE® catches up with Emily Patten, FPA’s director of membership and meetings.
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In this expanded interview with FlexPack VOICE®, Jonathan C. Quinn, vice president of marketing and sustainability for Accredo Packaging Inc. /API Group Holding Inc., offers insights hiring, recruitment, and retention.
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Skillwork places industrial technicians on temporary assignments at production facilities around the U.S., similar to the way traveling nurses supplement the workforce at hospitals and health systems.
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Food-grade and non-food-grade post-consumer recycled resin are being produced at the plant.
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The U.S. Department of Commerce’s recent decision to extend tariffs on aluminum to South Korea and Thailand will cost jobs in the U.S., while increasing prices for consumers and undermining the integrity of flexible packaging intended to protect food and medical supplies, according to the Flexible Packaging Association.
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Michigan State University’s School of Packaging completed a study on food waste that offers insights for packaging companies as they work to keep foods fresh as long as possible.
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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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The study sheds light on the valuable work that has been done to grow markets, including the creation of hundreds of thousands of jobs, for recycled materials.
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The leaders at BOBST were seeing a growing demand for flexible packaging and wanted a way to demonstrate what it had to offer its customers.
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As optimism began to creep back into economic forecasts in the second half of 2023, small and medium-sized label converters are ripe for consolidation.
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Pratt Industries says it now has assets valued at $12 billion invested in the United States and has created about 12,000 manufacturing jobs.
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Amcor won one of four technology excellence awards given out during PACK EXPO Las Vegas, taking the top prize in the sustainability category.
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