Packaging
Operations at Specialty Packaging Inc. includes film for the food industry.
Can the aluminum traditionally used as a barrier layer in food carton packages be safely replaced by a more environmentally friendly barrier? According to Tetra Pak, it looks as if that may well be the case.
Silgan Holdings Inc. and Pretium Packaging LLC have made moves impacting workers in California and Pennsylvania.
Shelton, Conn.-based thermoformer Inline Plastics Corp. has opened a new manufacturing plant in Gladwin, Mich., formerly belonging to Cam Packaging LLC, securing its first Midwest production and distribution facility.
Zummit Plastics is installing a third manufacturing line in Phoenix.
ExxonMobil is set to bring new production capacity for olefinic elastomers on stream as part of a $2 billion expansion at its Baytown, Texas site.
Plásticos Uribe SA de CV of Tlaquepaque, Mexico, a suburb of Guadalajara, Mexico, not only gives St. Johns additional flexible packaging manufacturing capacity, but also creates a foundation for additional growth.
The plastic packaging and engineered materials company is seeking a further reduction in Scope 3 GHG.
If signed by Gov. Jared Polis, the legislation could eventually place fees on packaging based on recycled-content use or recycling rates.
Critics today point to plastics' explosive growth since a PR campaign. But they didn't grow because of TV ads; they grew because they offer convenience and value, and because of the combined efforts of thousands to find new applications and to replace metal, glass and paper with plastic.