Packaging

Firms successfully process novel hybrid ‘PET/F’ resin into preforms, then bottles.

Ecopol makes biodegradable and water-soluble packaging films.

Additive is formulated to reduce AA content by up to 80 percent.

All-electric presses with high-cavity molds boost medical, packaging output.

US Merchants Leveraging Its Relationship With Machine Maker LSMtron to spur growth

Engel technology rapidly converts up to 100 percent recycled PET into ‘green’ food packaging.

EPR is controversial as environmental policy but may have some redeeming qualities.

Low collection rates of some polymers and looming regulations could upend materials use.

Second-quarter results show mixed signs for the U.S. industry’s key sector.

Color line combines performance, compatibility, new sites speed product development and supply.

Scientex, a major producer of stretch film and flexible packaging based in Malaysia, worked with resin producer SABIC to develop material for what the partners say is the world’s first flexible food packaging based on advanced recycled ocean-based plastics (OBP), using SABIC’s certified circular polypropylene (PP).

Recycling trends and biobased materials exert broad effects on pricing and products  In reviewing notes taken at conferences this year, one point is clear: the plastics industry is navigating a wave of innovation based on sustainability practices.   At a gathering…