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PMMI adds 22 new members
Trade association adds to its membership companies involved in the manufacture of packaging, processing and related converting machinery, commercially-available packaging machinery components, containers and materials in the U.S. and Canada.
High school flexo competition winners announced
2011 contest results are in - Mississauga, Ont. school wins first and second prize.
Safe and sound
Vaunted food safety certification keeps corrugated producer in good stead with its key customers
Smurfit-Stone President & COO to resign
Company president and chief operating officer Steven J. Klinger announces resignation.
Converting
Sea-change evolution
Leading Canadian frozen-foods processor helping to stem the tide of ocean resource depletion with fair fishing practices and certified, eco-sensitive consumer packaging
Holding it all together
Packaging adhesives evolve in step with rising environmental and supply concerns
Full steam forward
Thriving Toronto craft brewer taking its growth to the next level with modern packaging automation technologies
Braskem buys Dow’s polyproplyene business
The acquisition of the Dow Chemical Polypropylene Business, including plants in the USA and Europe, expands Braskem´s global industrial footprint.
Cascades to complete purchase of Papersource
Packaging and tissue converter to purchase remaining 50 per cent of shares for $85 million.
PACKEX Toronto a success!
Canada's longest-running national packaging exhibition wows exhibitors and visitors alike.
New look for PPC
Paper Packaging Canada, an association representing the major packaging mill companies in Canada and the major converters of that paper and board into packaging grade products, announced on January 18, 2011 its new Board of Directors. Rob Latter, vice-president, Packaging Group of Kruger Inc. has been elected chairman. Other executive members of the board include ...
Design & conquer
Ontario corrugated producer gets a new lease on life in the 21st Century by focusing on new POP market dynamics
Future Brighter For Global Corrugated Board Industry?
The global corrugated board packaging market is forecast to grow to 98 million tonnes in 2015, a new study by Pira International reveals. According to the study, the sector is to grow by a CAGR (compound annual growth rate) of nearly five percent between 2010 and 2015, with the highest expansion rates forecast in Brazil, ...
Promoting The Print Industry Challenge
Unisource Worldwide, Inc. of Norcross, Georgia, one of the leading distributors of paper, packaging and facility supplies in N.A., has joined together with The Print Council to support new initiatives in the world of print communications. In addition, Unisource chief executive officer Al Dragone has announced the company has committed a $100,000 matching grant to The ...
Paper Packaging Market To Grow By 1% Per Year?
Business Development Advisory (BDA) has released a new 96-page study of the North American packaging papers market. The North American Packaging Paper Study and Opportunity Assessment forecasts that the NA packaging papers market will increase just under one per cent annually through 2014. This first ever study takes a new look at the category and ...
California Dreaming of No Plastic Bags
The State of California seeks to become the first to ban plastic shopping bags via the AB 1988 bill that still needs to pass the state Senate. The cities of San Francisco and Oakland have already banned plastic bag use, and the U.S. capital of Washington D.C. now requires all grocery stores to charge five ...