FPA member companies reflect on 2025 milestones and challenges, including regulatory changes, EPR laws, and supply chain pressures. Industry leaders emphasize the need for clear policies, sustainable innovation, and workforce development to navigate uncertainty and prepare for 2026.
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Features for the Flexible Packaging Industry
Find in-depth stories about all the most relevant issues facing flexible packaging today. Digital-expanded and digital-exclusive features offer a deeper look at some of these topics to give you an even fuller view.
Seeking Connections
New FPA members pursue opportunities and support
Nov/Dec 2025
New FPA members, including Sun Centre, GLS Americas, and Revolution Sustainable Solutions, highlight sustainability, innovation, and navigating regulatory challenges as key priorities for the flexible packaging industry.
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Circumventing Roadblocks
75th anniversary wraps up with a look at the past and future
Nov/Dec 2025
FPA members emphasize the importance of a unified industry voice, collaboration, and education to advance flexible packaging’s sustainability, innovation, and regulatory advocacy.
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Why We’re Ditching ‘Just in Time’ for Something Smarter (and Less Stressful)
Discover why the Last Responsible Moment (LRM) is a smarter alternative to Just in Time (JIT) for packaging manufacturers. Learn how LRM reduces stress, waste, and risk in production planning.
October 1, 2025
Let’s be honest – Just in Time sounds like the scheduling equivalent of someone yelling, “Surprise!” It’s a core lean manufacturing principle, but for many in packaging production, it carries the weight of last-minute scrambles, tight margins, and rising blood pressure. So, what if we reframed it? What if we focused on making decisions at […]
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New FPA Chair Charts New Ventures
AI and FPA’s Four Pillars Are at the Center of Russell Grissett’s Agenda
Sept/Oct 2025
New FPA Chair Russell Grissett brings a focus on AI, advocacy, and strategic growth to advance the flexible packaging industry.
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Advocating for Flexible Packaging
FPA enhances advocacy efforts as policymakers increase activity
Sept/Oct 2025
Since taking the helm, FPA President and CEO Dan Felton has strengthened the association’s advocacy efforts to help members navigate tariffs, EPR laws, and other regulatory challenges.
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Training the Workforce of Tomorrow
Packaging Program Council Seeks Ways to Improve Packaging Degrees at Colleges and Universities
July/Aug 2025
Dwight Schmidt has spent decades in the paper packaging industry, accumulating knowledge and connections that have included being on the industry advisory board for the Michigan State University (MSU) School of Packaging. About six years ago, Michigan State asked him to help find a new packaging program director, which led him to Matthew Daum, Ph.D., […]
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Revamping and Streamlining
The ELC’s New Leaders Plot Path for 2025 and Beyond
July/Aug 2025
The Emerging Leadership Council (ELC) wants to advance the priorities of the Flexible Packaging Association and also promote the opportunities that the ELC can provide dedicated participants
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EU Grapples With Changing Rules
Flexible Packaging Europe Steers Industry Through New Regulations
July/Aug 2025
The flexible packaging sector welcomes the step toward harmonizing rules on the continent, according to Guido Aufdemkamp, executive director of Flexible Packaging Europe, an industry trade association based in Düsseldorf, Germany. The association, which is the European counterpart to the Flexible Packaging Association (FPA) in the U.S., represents more than 85 flexible packaging manufacturers operating more than 350 plants and generating more than 19 billion euros in annual revenue, or about $20.5 billion.
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75 Years of Member Service
Past and Current Leaders Discuss FPA’s History and the Future of Flexible Packaging
May/June 2025
As the Flexible Packaging Association (FPA) entered 2025, the trade organization began celebrating 75 years since its formation in 1950. For Kathy Bolhous, chair and CEO of Charter Next Generation, FPA’s staying power proves that members have been getting value all along.
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Creating Excellence
Gold Awards in Annual Contest Help Solve Problems
May/June 2025
The gold awards in the 2025 Flexible Packaging Achievement Awards Competition were given for packages that excelled in sustainability, printing, packaging excellence, shelf impact, technical innovation, and expanding the use of flexible packaging.
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Recognizing Innovations
Silver Award Winners in FPA Competition Demonstrate Packaging Progress
May/June 2025
The silver awards in the 2025 Flexible Packaging Achievement Awards Competition were given for packages that demonstrated excellence in sustainability, printing, packaging excellence, shelf impact, technical innovation, and expanding the use of flexible packaging.
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A Look Behind Producer Responsibility Organizations
Circular Action Alliance Prepares for a Busy Year With EPR
March/April 2025
Extended producer responsibility laws have been spreading in the United States, requiring the guidance of producer responsibility organizations (PROs). Along the way, a PRO called Circular Action Alliance was incorporated in December 2022.
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‘An Inflection Point’
ProAmpac CEO Greg Tucker Offers His Thoughts on a Turning Point for the Flexible Packaging Industry
March/April 2025
ProAmpac has been focused on innovation and sustainability and wants to make sure it builds sustainable packaging options that are substrate agnostic as long as they can be recyclable or compostable and not go into landfills.
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‘Outstanding’
Judges for 69th Annual Awards Competition Highlight Advances in Flexible Packaging
March/April 2025
Judges for this year’s Flexible Packaging Achievement Awards competition went through the entries one by one to pick the winners in six categories: expanding the use of flexible packaging, technical innovation, sustainability, printing, shelf impact, and packaging excellence.
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A Conversation With Dan Felton, FPA’s New Leader
Felton Comes From AMERIPEN, Where Packaging EPR Is a Top Concern
Jan/Feb 2025
As Felton prepared to start his new position as president and CEO of the Flexible Packaging Association (FPA), he reflected on how some of the issues facing FPA were the same as at AMERIPEN—the American Institute for Packaging and the Environment—where he had spent nearly five years leading that association.
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FlexPAC™ Gears up for Elections
FPA’s Political Action Committee Plans for the Future
Jan/Feb 2025
The flexible packaging industry took a significant step into the political arena in 2024 with the creation of its first political action committee, FlexPAC™.
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Packaging for Pet Foods
New Life Cycle Assessment Explores Role of Flexible Packaging in Growing Segment
Jan/Feb 2025
Sustainability seems to pervade all conversations about flexible packaging—including how people view their pets. That makes sustainability top of mind for brand owners because it is top of mind for pet owners.
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Lessons From 2024 Inform 2025
Industry Leaders Discuss Trends Facing Flexible Packaging Industry
Nov/Dec 2024
FlexPack VOICE® asked three experts involved with the Flexible Packaging Association (FPA) about key flexible packaging industry developments this year, while looking toward 2025 and beyond: Amanda Ciccone, senior director of sales at Dow; Dhuanne Dodrill, CEO of PAXXUS, Inc.; and Alison Keane, former president and CEO at FPA.
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Milestones 2024
Companies Celebrating Anniversaries With FPA Weigh in
Nov/Dec 2024
With 2025 around the corner, companies will be looking to see if trends in 2024 continue while watching for new developments. To gauge what they are thinking, FlexPack VOICE® asked some of the companies celebrating milestones with the Flexible Packaging Association in 2024 what is on their minds.
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