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Minimizing Waste in Extrusion Coating

(Coating/Laminating)

December 8, 2024, ... recycling and circular economy practices. Collaborating with recyclers and suppliers to initiate closed-loop recycling systems for post-consumer or production waste materials promotes sustainability and ...

Pregis Sets New Standard for Sustainable Packaging with AirSpeed® HC Renew Post-Consumer Recycled (PCR)

(News | New Products)

June 14, 2023, First-to-market high-pressure air cushioning film with 80 percent post-consumer recycled content provides superior product protection while minimizing environmental impact. First-to-market high-pressure ...

NexKemia Acquires Assets of Eco-Captation, a Prominent Polystyrene Waste Recycler

(News | New Products)

January 29, 2023, ... post-consumer recycled materials. The company combines artificial intelligence-enhanced optical sorting technology with a seamless mechanical recycling process to convert plastic waste into high quality ...

The “5R” Framework: An Approach Designed to Reduce Packaging Waste

(News | New Products)

September 20, 2022, ... refers to products designed to contain post-consumer recycled materials, or with protective coatings and resistant inks that offer the durability needed for reusable articles or packaging. Reduce is about ...

UFlex Joins Alliance to End Plastic Waste to Strengthen its Global Mission of Building a Circular Plastic Economy

(News | New Products)

September 21, 2021, ... steadfast commitment to tackle the problem of plastic waste and its expertise to derive solutions and technologies that help recover and recycle post-consumer plastic waste and help plastic find a purpose ...

Business Formed To Buy Post-Consumer PLA

(News Clips Archive)

March 31, 2010, CONCORD, CA | BIOCOR LLC is a new venture in the business of buying, aggregating, and processing post-consumer polylactic acid (PLA). BIOCOR will capitalize CONCORD, CA | BIOCOR LLC is a new venture in ...

Recycled Labels Remove More Waste

(News Eclips)

May 29, 2008, FAIRFIELD, NJ | Logotech reports it has mastered printing on a new label stock made of 100% post-consumer recycled paper FAIRFIELD, NJ | Logotech reports it has mastered printing on a new label stock made ...

Designing Packaging with Bio or Renewable Content

(Flexpack)

December 4, 2025, ... inclusion of post-consumer recycle content. One sustainable technology that is often overlooked and of high interest is flexible packaging incorporating renewable or bio-content. The use of renewable ...

MSU Researchers Develop Easier-to-Recycle Multilayer Plastics

(Bag Pouch)

November 19, 2025, ... most sense for clean, post-industrial streams, while chemical recycling is better suited for mixed or contaminated post-consumer waste. This new polyester-based multilayer film is engineered to perform ...

Flexible Packaging Pouches: The Future of Sustainable and Smart Packaging

(Flexpack)

November 2, 2025, ... use of post-consumer recycled (PCR) content is becoming the norm. Advances in polymer processing now allow for high-quality flexible pouches to be manufactured using significant percentages of PCR materials. ...

Monadnock Paper Mills Publishes 2024 Corporate Social Responsibility Report

(News | New Products)

September 29, 2025, ... and production efficiency led to reduced material loss and higher recovery rates. Recycled Material Use: Used 2,867 tons of post-consumer recycled pulp across our product lines, a 25 percent increase ...

Developing Next-Generation VpCI® Sustainable Films

(Flexpack)

September 11, 2025, ... place. Leading innovators in this field have ensured their VpCI® films are 100 percent recyclable, often containing a significant percentage of post-consumer or post-industrial recycled content. This ...

The Sustainable Shift Innovations in Flexible Packaging Solutions

(Bag Pouch)

September 7, 2025, ... is sustainability such as curbside recycling, post-consumer resins (PCR) and recycled materials. The regulatory landscape further accelerates this shift, with Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) legislation ...

Recycled Content, New Possibilities

(News | New Products)

July 13, 2025, ... packaging landscape. Legislation surrounding waste management is directly impacting how plastic packaging is designed, produced and recycled. Several states have passed post-consumer recycled (PCR) content ...

Innovating for Circularity: How New Sustainability Initiatives Are Shaping the Future of Labeling

(News | New Products)

June 29, 2025, ... cleanly during the caustic wash step of the recycling process, leaving behind a contaminant-free PET stream. The result is a cleaner, more efficient recycling process that yields higher-quality post-consumer ...

New Product Development: RKW Horizon®–MDO-PE Films with EVOH Barrier

(News | New Products)

June 26, 2025, ... of sustainable mono-material solutions," says Luc Hermans, Director Sales Consumer Packaging. "For example, we also offer Low-SIT sealing films with PCR (post-consumer recycled) content, which we can combine ...

Nextek and Coveris Join Forces to Revolutionize Mechanical Recycling for Food-grade Plastic Film

(News | New Products)

March 17, 2025, ... Together, they aim to convert post-consumer polyolefin (PE & PP) packaging waste into high-quality food-grade recycled resins and films. This collaboration builds on Nextek's success in winning the 'Circular ...

Challenges, Solutions and Future Paperboard Packaging Trends

(Coating/Laminating)

February 15, 2025, ... are key elements of sustainable packaging solutions. They can contain high levels of post-consumer fiber and are some of the most widely recycled materials globally. Combined with emerging solutions in ...

Yazoo Mills - A Standard of Excellence in the Converting Industry

(Equipment/Machines - Converting)

January 16, 2025, ... sustainable manufacturing, the company crafts its paper tubes and cores from 100% recycled paperboard, primarily from post-consumer waste. Strategic investments in advanced technologies enhance efficiency ...

Building a Circular Economy for Stretch Film

(Flexpack)

November 10, 2024, ...  Beyond its sustainable at-tributes, post-consumer recycled (PCR) films are versatile films that allow machine wrapping of products in a fast, secure and timely manner. Machine stretch films available ...