Flexible Packaging

The new products will be filled using SIG Prime 100, a high-performance and flexible filling line designed for aseptic spouted pouch applications. Read More Nana is the first brand to adopt Amcor’s AmPrima® 2-Liter Refill Pouch in the home and personal care sector, accelerating the shift towards lightweight, mono-material packaging that uses less plastic.

adapa Group’s ProPeel-IWS (Individually Wrapped Slices) films combine low material thickness with puncture and tear resistance and accommodate maximum speeds on vertical flow-pack lines. The flow-wrap film is designed for individual wrapping of processed cheese slices. The multilayer, coextruded polypropylene films ProPeel-IWS are heat-resistant with a melting point of up to 165°C to work with hot filling.

Traditional Medicinals®, a leading botanical wellness company with more than 60 high quality teas, lozenges and capsules, has announced that their new compostable, plastic-free tea wrapper is the first ever compostable tea wrapper to receive a Biodegradable Products Institute® (BPI) certification.

Creation Reprographics, a company that specializes packaging artwork, reprographics and plate production, has helped leading dried fruit, nuts and snacks business, Whitworths, support brand-wide sustainability by going solvent-free in its flexible packaging prepress. Aiming to further reduce the carbon impact of its packaging, Whitworths has now moved its flexible packaging designs to water-washable Fujifilm Flenex-FW flexo plates, manufactured by Creation.

HP Inc., a global technology leader and creator of solutions, has announced the release of its new HP Indigo 200K Digital Press. The new machine is designed to give digital flexible converters a competitive edge with better productivity, on-demand delivery, no minimum orders, unique designs, reduced energy consumption, and minimal waste. The press is based on a successful install base of over 300 HP Indigo 25K digital presses, series 4, worldwide.

TotalEnergies and COLINES last week announced the successful proof of concept of an Unlaminated Recyclable Stand-Up Pouch suitable for food contact applications. Currently the market reference is composed of a multi-material film, resulting in non-recyclable packaging. The partners have developed a full-PE recyclable Unlaminated Stand-Up Pouch, allowing for a reduction of the packaging thickness.

Michelman, a global developer and manufacturer of environmentally friendly advanced materials for the coatings, printing & packaging, and fibers & composites markets, will feature its flexible packaging solutions at PAMEX 2023, a premier printing exhibition taking place in Mumbai, India, later this month.

PAC Machinery Bags and Materials announces it is transitioning its custom and stock pre-opened bags for automatic baggers so that all of them will now contain recycled content as standard. As part of a corporate commitment to sustainable packaging and an effort to decrease the company’s environmental impact, effective immediately, all PAC Machinery poly bags and materials will be made from at least 25% post-industrial recycled resin.

Toppan, a global leader in communication, security, packaging, décor materials, and electronics solutions, will open a new plant in Most, the Czech Republic. Toppan aims to commence mass production at its first transparent barrier film manufacturing site in Europe by the end of 2024. With the launch of the new plant, Toppan will establish a market-leading and global supply capacity for transparent barrier films with production bases in Japan, North America (Georgia, USA), and Europe.

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