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Executive Outlook 2010: A tale of two worlds

As ominous clouds give way to rays of optimism, how will converters manage yet another world of continued uncertainty and potentially damaging legislation?

Charter-ing Success

Basic, unwavering commitments to customers, employees and precise manufacturing processes keep one Superior, Wis.-based blown film manufacturer moving with full speed ahead.

Making Sustainability Work

Understanding what sustainability is, its implications on flexible packaging and even innovating energy and emissions controls around a packaging plant put successful sustainability strategies in motion.

Exopack: Converter on the go

Having gone global and gone for the gold in industry competitions, where will continuous improvements and a joint venture take Exopack next?

Weber Marking Systems: Limitless in labeling

Well established in RFID and now digging into digital printing, Weber Marking Systems is proving it’s more than your father’s label maker.

Top 25 Converters - Open for Business

This year’s top flexible packaging converters have succeeded by being receptive to necessary changes in a tough economy—pulling back or pushing ahead aggressively.

Multifilm Packaging: Innovation through integration

Focused on its strengths and getting stronger, Multifilm Packaging’s integration in a vertical business takes the converter to new heights every day.

Greening the bottom line

Whether you’re a seedling or solidly planted in your sustainability initiatives, the latest practices, processes and products can assure the greening of your company well into the future.

LMI Packaging Solutions: Working together, growing together

A commitment to providing lifelong measureable impact to customer and community drives LMI Packaging Solutions’ success.

DANAFILMS: unbridled success

For 39 years, customized polyethylene films made Danafilms a horse of a different color. Now the converter has added a second thoroughbred: coextrusion.

Executive Outlook 2009: On the right track?

With an uncertain economy and volatility in raw material prices, today's growth strategies demand finding the right market opportunities and staying open to technological advantages.

Globalization…And the pursuit of business

Converters are growing their business through global expansion for all the right reasons.

Annual Print Symposium: Printing technology moves with the times

From flexo to gravure, all the technologies used to print flexible packaging are evolving to meet the shifting needs of converters and their customers.

CASTLE-PIERCE Investing in the future

After being in business for well over a century, printer Castle-Pierce takes its history into account as it branches into new markets and sets its sights on the future.

Service Personified

Even in a slumping economy, Packaging Personified has figured out how to go green, expand its operations and maintain its dedication to customer service.

Room to grow

As Coating Excellence International enters its eleventh year in business, it is poised to succeed as it enters new markets and continues to innovate.

Top 25 Kings of Converting

Competitive analysis and benchmarking energize the strategies and implementation plans of leading flexible packaging converters.

Cause for celebration

In February 1998, a new company based in Gray Court, S.C., launched itself onto the flexible packaging scene. Jon McClure started ISO Poly Films with little money, but a whole lot of hope. Over the past decade, the once-budding company has grown into a leader of custom extruded plastic films for food, medical and industrial industries.

Ampac: Green means go

Cincinnati, Ohio-based Ampac is a company that builds, not consolidates. Over the last year, Ampac has acquired several new flexible packaging companies, but lest you think that the acquisitions are thoughtlessly thrown into the trunk of the Ampac fold and are just along for the ride, think again.

All in the Family

With a nod to the past and an eye to the future, the great-grandchildren of company founder Frank Shields are taking 73-year-old shields bag and printing to new heights by emphasizing quality, customer service and emerging technologies.

Going Global

Exopack takes its role as a service provider very seriously, going beyond the traditional role of a packaging manufacturer to link up with global packaging partners in order to offer its customers the cost advantages of specific local markets. This global approach is just a part of Exopack's new branding strategy, promoting the integration of the company's business units.

Executive Outlook 2008: Predicting a Flexible Future

Flexible Packaging asked top industry insiders to share their thoughts on the short- and long-term impact that 2008 will have on the industry, and offer their predictions about what the future holds.