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Packaging

Flexible Packaging Association announces new board members

Group includes leaders from 37 packaging companies

April 2, 2020

The Flexible Packaging Association elected its 2020 Board of Directors with Curt Begle of Berry Global continuing for his second year as chairperson.

CANNABIS PRODUCTS | NOVEMBER 2019

Child Resistant Bag

November 11, 2019

The DymaPak Child Resistant Bag features a proprietary pull-to-open locking zipper, thick food-grade plastic and durable construction.

Dry Processing Technology

Inspira ACP-700 snack food case packer

October 18, 2019

Inspira VFFS bag maker and ACP-700 automatic case packer offer integrated and automated packaging room solutions for the snack industry.

CANNABIS PRODUCTS | JUNE 2019

Automatic Rotary Premade Pouch Machine

June 27, 2019

The Viking-8S-235, for packaging edibles like candy, confections, snacks and more in pouch formats, is for bags up to 235 mm wide at speeds up to 60 cycles per minute.

Hershey supplier helps with standup pouches

Innovation

Hershey’s honors Rovema for help introducing standup candy pouches

Company provided vertical packaging machines for Doy-style bags

Rose Shilling

June 26, 2019

The Hershey Company gave Rovema North America an innovation award for supporting its introduction of Doy-type standup pouches for candy.

Food Packaging

Cannabis gummies switch to plastic pouch

Rose Shilling

June 21, 2019

If cannabis edibles follow the rest of the food industry, flexible packages are likely to become more popular.

Food Packaging

Flexible pouches offer touchable finishes, child-resistance

Rose Shilling

June 17, 2019

Premium finishes for plastic pouches are going strong, and flexible packaging maker ProAmpac has a new line of coatings that give the bags different feels to try to get shoppers' attention.

New Plant Products

Form/cut/stack thermoformer

June 3, 2019

The GN Thermoforming Equipment GN580 form/cut/stack thermoformer handles all thermoformable grades of PET, OPS, HIPS, PLA, PP and PVC.

Packaging

Recyclable stand-up pouch offers EVOH barrier

Rose Shilling

March 20, 2019

TC Transcontinental Packaging introduced a 100 percent recyclable, multilayer barrier stand-up pouch.

Packaging

Child-resistant zipper on plastic package

Rose Shilling

March 20, 2019

Following its child-resistant slider closure released last year, Zip-Pak has added a less expensive press-to-close zipper to the Safety-Lok line for flexible plastic packages.