by Plastics.com Staff | Mar 20, 2019 | Consumer, Daily News, North America, Packaging
Seafoodsource.com — “A picture is worth a thousand words.” It’s an idiom that seafood packagers around the world can get behind – and even in front of – with innovations in the sector transporting product presentations to new dimensions and heights. Vacuum skin...
by Plastics.com Staff | Mar 18, 2019 | Bioplastics, Business, Consumer, Daily News, Extrusion, North America, Packaging, Profile
Tiger Packaging — Boca Raton, Florida — Peter Horwitz was rather quietly building his Tiger Packaging company when the Plastic Straw Convulsion hit late last year: American consumers rather suddenly were rejecting the idea of plastic straws to sip their Cokes because...
by Plastics.com Staff | Mar 7, 2019 | Daily News, Mergers & Acquisitions, North America, Packaging
Businessbreakingnews.net — Packaging company DS Smith has sold its plastics division to US private equity firm Olympus Partners for $585m (£445m). The sale is part of the London-headquartered firm’s strategy to shift towards sustainable packaging, the company...
by Plastics.com Staff | Mar 5, 2019 | Business, Daily News, Global, Packaging
PRNewswire — 3D printing plastics market new research report added in ReportsnReports.com. 3D printing plastics market is estimated at USD 615.8 million in 2018 and is projected to reach USD 1,965.3 million by 2023, at a CAGR of 26.1% between 2018 and 2023 and...
by Plastics.com Staff | Feb 28, 2019 | Daily News, North America, Packaging, Polymer Science
treehugger.com — Thanks to the availability of cheaply produced plastics, we’re rapidly contaminating every square inch on earth with this material, and while it’s possible to ditch some, if not most, plastics from our lives through making careful choices,...
by Plastics.com Staff | Feb 19, 2019 | Daily News, Environmental, Europe, Packaging
Great Britian — Experts from some of the world’s biggest brands, including Marks & Spencer, Pepsi Lipton, together with British Plastics Federation, A Plastic Planet and WRAP, will come together at Packaging Innovations 2019 to discuss plastics in packaging. To...