October 2024

Go big this year with a costume that reflects your packaging design props. …

FLAG (Flexo Label Advantage Group, LLC) will host its 2025 Annual Member Meeting, titled “Power Up”, in Overland Park, Kansas, April 29 – May 1, 2025. This year’s meeting will be hosted by Spectragraphics, a long-standing FLAG Member, and will focus on empowering members with the tools and strategies to drive…

Fairlawn, Ohio based Buckeye Corrugated Inc. (BCI) announced its outstanding achievement at the 2024 Box Manufacturing Olympics, held during SuperCorrExpo in Orlando, Florida. Hosted by AICC, the Independent Packaging Association, and TAPPI, the Technical Association of the Pulp and Paper Industry, this prestigious competition — known as the Box Manufacturing Olympics…

Yerecic Label has been awarded the 2024 Calvin Frost Elevation Sustainability Award by TLMI. The award recognizes Yerecic Label as an industry leader in sustainability, highlighting the Pennsylvannia converter’s fully formed and publicly stated sustainability goals, strategies, and executions that are advancing multiple aspects of sustainability. In line with this achievement,…

Memphis, Tennessee based International Paper (IP) will be laying off hundreds of workers in connection with plant closures in Illinois, Missouri, North Carolina and Tennessee. The disclosure comes on the heels of 650 layoffs at its headquarters and a plant in Texas. IP filed a WARN notice with the state of…

Vibrant graphics capture the Hershey brand’s larger-than-life personality and unmistakable flavor experience. What do consumers think? …

BCM Inks, a manufacturer of high intensity water flexo inks, coatings, and digital primers for the direct print corrugated graphic packaging and display industry, announced the recent relocation and expansion of its headquarters within Cincinnati, Ohio. The new building is approximately three times larger than the previous building. BCM Inks moved…

Nagoya, Japan based Isowa Corporation’s President, Hideyuki Isowa, has been awarded the 2024 Porter Prize. Harvard Business School’s Michael Porter, in collaboration with Hitotsubashi University, awards the prize to Japanese firms that demonstrate unique strategies based on innovations in products, processes, and ways of managing. Isowa has a focus on corrugated…

Hybrid BrandZ, a business unit of Hybrid Software, has formed a dedicated U.S. team to strengthen its coverage. Jointly led by Heath Luetkens and Scott Pellicone, this team is set to streamline complex project management for brands and consumer packaged goods companies. Luetkens has been instrumental in expanding Hybrid Software’s presence…

This versatile shrink-wrap system creates a tight package, offers varying levels of automation and cost efficiency, and could minimize the need for multiple film sizes. …