Winners Revealed at 15th Annual Label Industry Global Awards

ROSEMONT, IL—Innovations by Avery Dennison, Hamillroad Software and RotoMetrics were among the category winners honored at this year’s prestigious Label Industry Global Awards, which took place on Sept. 25 at Joe’s Live in Rosemont, IL, as part of Labelexpo Americas 2018. Now in its 15th edition, the awards celebrate innovative, creative and successful work from … Continued

Dow Chemical Co. Announces RecycleReady Technology for Polyethylene Packaging

MIDLAND, MI—The Dow Chemical Co. is introducing a new member of the recently launched RecycleReady Technology, which enables the recyclability of polyethylene based barrier packaging as part of existing grocery store dropoff recycling programs. Created through collaboration with the Sustainable Packaging Coalition (SPC) and other industry members, Dow’s RecycleReady Technology helps converters create barrier pouches … Continued

Heartbeat of the Plant: drupa 2016 Guide to Presses

Compiled by Robert Moran Intelligent machinery, integrated processes and intuitive handling—that is the promise of innovative suppliers serving the global printing, packaging and converting community. Engineering and development teams, committed to delivering state of the art models of efficiency in compact and modular designs, have cast their visions across multiprocess print platforms to include flexography, … Continued

Nordmeccanica, Dow Chemical Announce Partnership

HORGEN, Switzerland—To further accelerate the development of packaging innovation, The Dow Chemical Company (DOW) announced a global innovation and business development agreement with Nordmeccanica S.p.A., a worldwide leader in coating, laminating and metallizing machinery. Both companies see enormous potential to advance solutions for the flexible packaging industry by combining adhesive development with machine pioneering that … Continued

DuPont, Dow Chemical to Merge

WILMINGTON, DE & MIDLAND, MI—DuPont and The Dow Chemical Co. announced that their boards of directors unanimously approved a definitive agreement under which the companies will combine in an all stock merger of equals. The combined company will be named DowDuPont. The parties intend to subsequently pursue a separation of DowDuPont into three independent, publicly traded … Continued

DuPont, Dow Chemical in Talks to Merge

UPDATE—The reports were true: DuPont and The Dow Chemical Co. will merge WILMINGTON, DE & MIDLAND, MI—DuPont and The Dow Chemical Co. are in advanced, late stage talks to merge, according to several news outlets. A deal may be announced this week. The Wall Street Journal reports that, if successful, the combined entity would have … Continued

Dow Chemical Company Announces INNATE Precision Packaging Resins

MIDLAND, MI—The Dow Chemical Company’s Packaging and Specialty Plastics business announced the launch of INNATE Precision Packaging Resins, a new family of resins that offers unprecedented performance levels to help customers address some of today’s most challenging packaging performance gaps. Created from a patented molecular catalyst coupled with advanced process technology, INNATE resins will empower … Continued