ASI interviewed packaging industry veteran Carlos Quintero, the director, Industry Services, at PMMI, The Association for Packaging and Processing Technologies, about the latest industry trends.

TAPPI’s International Flexible Packaging & Extrusion Division has announced three prominent keynote speakers for its 2024 conference, held April 14-17, 2024.

Toyo-Morton estimates that CO₂ emissions related to inks and laminating adhesives in packaging can be reduced up to 70% by substituting solvent-based products with solvent-free ones.

A strong regulation for EU legislation on packaging and packaging waste will harmonize packaging recycling requirements throughout Europe, lessen market barriers, and simplify the compliance work of economic operators.

The initiative brings together the entire plastics value chain to optimize plastic packaging recyclability and recycled plastic uptake while promoting the traceability of plastic waste and recycled plastic content in the European region.

If companies can minimize packaging without affecting product quality, they can directly influence the bottom line by reducing materials and waste while increasing efficiency, effectiveness, and profitability.  

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ACTEGA recently announced that, following its acquisition of the closure materials business from Henkel in May 2021, the transfer of production from Henkel in France to ACTEGA DS in Bremen, Germany, has been successfully completed.

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