The FPA's 74th Annual Meeting is scheduled for March 20-22, 2024, at the Loews Ventana Canyon Resort in Tucson, Arizona. The event will include educational sessions, networking events, and a talk by Rob Cotton, PepsiCo's R&D director for sustainable packaging materials, on their path to sustainable packaging compliance.

Aegler will act as CEO until the company’s General Meeting in June 2024. The company’s Supervisory Board is leading the search for a suitable successor.

Centre aims to help achieve global plastics sustainability goals by focusing on R&D collaboration and value chain-integrated solutions.

Leading manufacturer and supplier of rigid plastic-molded packaging products seeks to use M&A as a strategic tool to drive inorganic growth – as a complement to continued organic growth – with the goal of doubling sales by 2030.

Event featured 90 exhibitors on the show floor presenting the latest and greatest solutions for food, beverage, household, healthcare, pharmaceutical, medical, and other areas of the global CPG industry.

The new, patented technology enables simultaneous processing of diverse container types, including cans, jars and pouches, in the same equipment.

In 2020, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration obtained commitments from manufacturers to cease sales for food contact use of grease-proofing substances that contain certain types of PFAS.

In the survey, 88% of respondents claim to be planning a connected packaging campaign this year, and 78% of respondents believe connected packaging will improve business sustainability credentials.

IMA Sandbox analyzes the interaction of AI solutions with operational machine parameters to prevent efficiency losses, while IMA AlgoMarket helps companies access and implement artificial intelligence solutions.  

TerraSafe has established a lab in State College and entered a licensing agreement with Penn State to commercialize sustainable packaging solutions.