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The Official Publication of the Flexible Packaging Association
Curated Exhibit Highlights Packaging Innovations
PACK to the Future brings packaging innovations and turns plenty of heads in Las Vegas.
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From Acceptance to Ownership
Executives in the flexible packaging industry grasp the challenges in front of them. The hard work lies in moving from understanding to action—or, as Peter Sheahan puts it, from acceptance to ownership.
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FPA Profiles the U.S. Packaging Industry
AS ONE OF the fastest-growing segments of the packaging industry, flexible packaging combines the best qualities of plastic, film, paper, and aluminum foil to deliver a broad range of protective properties while employing a minimum of material.
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Filling the Gaps
To fill job gaps, manufacturers are seeking employees from nontraditional or largely untapped fields. Veterans, women, re-entrants, and refugees constitute a rich supply of motivated, reliable workers.
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Vaccine Mandates Stir Debate
As the pandemic entered its 18th month in September, the federal government prepared new rules that would require businesses with 100 or more employees to ensure workers were vaccinated. For some observers, the process underway indicated an overreach that raised flags about whether precedents were being set that would undermine the autonomy of businesses for years.
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Advocacy Efforts Expand
The Emerging Leadership Council's (ELC) advocacy group has a mission to create clear and effective communication regarding legislative proposals affecting the flexible packaging industry that can be distributed within the industry and with our customers to best advocate for the entire flexible packaging industry.
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Experts Discuss New ‘Normal’
Looking back to the onset of the pandemic, sterile packaging manufacturers were in the thick of it, responding to COVID’s immediate and unrelenting impact on the health care industry.
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CEO: Plastic Is Not Going Away
The truth is, plastic is not the problem. The problem is that we are discarding it so early in its life cycle. Instead of thinking of one necessary use for the polymers, innovators need to think about the entire life cycle of these materials.
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Cybersecurity Becomes High Priority
Many priorities are the same every year—plastics, tariffs, and recycling. In 2022, cybersecurity has been added to that upper echelon of importance.
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2022 State Legislative Discussions Speed Up
State legislators introduced multiple bills in 2021, and some of those measures resulted in several new laws impacting packaging.
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Packaging in Education
In this issue, we talk to Daniel P. Johnson, professor and chair of the department of packaging science, college of engineering technology, at the Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) in Rochester, New York.
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Flexible Packaging Company Finds Workers Through Second Chance Program
As companies struggle to find workers, many of them turned to alternative programs that can offer a pool of available workers. In the January/February edition of FlexPack VOICE®, we explore […]
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Sheahan: “Brutal Honesty” Needed to Transform Your Company
Peter Sheahan spends a lot of time advising other executives on how to manage corporate transformation. The recipe includes what he describes as a dose of “brutal honesty.” It sounds painful. […]
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