NEW ORLEANS — You can make a package from recycled material, reduce the weight by 50 percent and ensure that it’s reusable. But that’s not always enough to make it sustainable. True sustainability requires looking at everything and considering the entire life cycle, said Erica Ocampo, sustainability and advocacy manager at Dow...
GREENVILLE, S.C. — Two South Carolina thermoformers have merged and are moving operations to Greenville. The combined operation will be based in the former PFC-Systems Inc. plant, which had specialized in heavy-gauge thermoforming for a range of industries. PFC merged with Blue Ridge Packaging, which focused on thin gauge thermoforming in...
MILTON, WIS. — Charter NEX Films Inc. is expanding the capacity of its Milton plant, adding two Windmoeller & Hoelscher 3-layer coextrusion blown film lines.
GUANGZHOU, CHINA — German plastics maker BASF SE hopes to seed the market for biodegradable plastics in China with a trial program composting household food waste in 100,000 homes in the central Chinese city of Wuhan.
SACRAMENTO, CALIF. — Nestlé Waters, manufacturer of Arrowhead brand bottled water, has committed to using 50 percent recycled content in its water bottles, according to Californians Against Waste.
WILMINGTON, DEL. — In remote villages in sub-Saharan Africa, medicine can be hard to find, while Coca-Cola is virtually everywhere.
BAD HOMBURG, GERMANY — Two European packaging associations — France's Elipso and Germany-based IK Industrievereinigung Kunststoffverpackungen e.V. (IK) — met this week to highlight difficulties in polymer sourcing in Europe.
BRAMPTON, ONTARIO -- Canada-based thermoformed packaging company Par-Pak Ltd. is slated to be bought by Waddington North America Inc., a major plastic tableware producer.
ANN ARBOR, MICH. — Amcor Rigid Plastics says it has created the lightest 64-ounce hot-fill PET container of its kind, weighing only 59 grams.
HONG KONG — Hong Kong's government wants to expand its 4-year-old ban on free plastic shopping bags to cover the vast majority of retailers in the densely-populated city, saying the measure is needed to reduce a landfill space crunch.
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