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The Whole Package: Flexible Packaging… It’s More Sustainable Than You Might Think! It’s not hard to see why. It seems like every day there’s a new study about the dangerous consequences of climate change, and the images of plastic waste …

We love our pets! We love our pets, and we’re clearly not the only ones! Pet ownership is on the rise in the US with 68% of households owning pets. So it’s not surprising that the number of options for …

Creating Effective Artwork Beyond its primary utilitarian purposes of protection, transportation, and sale-marking, packaging serves its product as a vehicle for expression; whether to instill confidence, ethos, or even to simply invoke happiness, packaging art is, in essence, like any …

Part 1 Static electricity on the surface of a bag can cause the bag to be unsuitable for electronics packaging. Antistats and metallized PET are used to modify the bags in a way to either dissipate a static charge and …

Causes & Prevention Being organically based, polymers are subject to degradation and breakdown through natural oxidation. Degradation may be initiated or accelerated by numerous factors including ultra-violet light, visible light, ozone, pollutants, manufacturing additives, oxygen, heat, or by carton storage …

Tiny spots commonly seen in packaging films are either gel or carbon spots. Gels and carbon spots are inherent in the film extrusion process. These are bits of unmelted resin in the case of gels or charred bits in the …