Top five flexible packaging trends
A leader from packaging provider Zip-Pak has offered his views on what trends are driving the flexible field.
Archives for June 25, 2014
Ex-NAWG president: We must step up to the plate and support GM wheat
As wheat continues to lose acreage and R&D investment to corn and soybeans, the time has come to support the eventual commercialization of biotech wheat, says the immediate past president of the National Association of Wheat Growers (NAWG).
Insights from IFT 2014
Is your product ready for nutrition label changes?
Food and beverage manufacturers are holding their collective breath in anticipation of the proposed changes to the Nutrition Facts panel put forth by the Food and Drug Administration and likely to be finalized next year.
Special edition: Sustainable packaging
Biobased materials gets R&D boost in the Netherlands
Between €3m and €6m will be available for research and development into biobased performance materials (BPM) in the Netherlands over the next four years.
Special edition: Sustainable packaging
Innovia Films sees demand for biolaminate packaging rise
Innovia Films is seeing a rise in demand for biolaminate packaging after successful partnerships with QV Foods, Bio4Pack and Caturra Coffee.
Milling & Grains Bite-size Science
Boosting zinc in wheat, Guatemala’s food security problem, maize and climate change
Getting more zinc into wheat, the negative side of trade liberalization, and maize and rising global temperatures.
Special edition: Sustainable packaging
CPI: ‘Get the focus right. It’s not just about packaging’
The Confederation of Paper Industries (CPI) is calling on manufacturers to look at the whole picture of sustainability, right through the supply chain, rather than just focusing on the end product.
Special edition: Sustainable packaging
TerraCycle’s packaging sustainability drive lands a starring role on TV
The company’s efforts to boost packaging recycling rates, and increase packaging and manufacturing sustainability, will be the center of a program on the Pivot network.