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Rainier Plastics Adds Another Erema System

May 15, 2013
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Rainier Plastics, Yakima, Wash., has brought on line its fourth Erema plastics reprocessing system; a 1512 TVEplus with an Erema SW RTF back flushing screen changer.
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Labels & Labeling: Green Adhesives

January 15, 2013
By Jeff Timm
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For years, the industry has promoted water-based adhesive (acrylic, urethane, etc.) alternatives to solvent-based adhesives as the answer to environmental concerns related to volatile organic components (VOCs). Now the realization
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Value in Waste: Converting Non-Recyclable Plastics-to-Fuel

October 1, 2012
By Shane Dunne
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Some plastics are not as easily pulled from the recycling process, leading to an end-of-life in a landfill.  Plastic’s durability and resistance to degradation have made it an invaluable packaging
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Clean Manufacturing for Business Sustainability

June 1, 2012
By David Jackson
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In an environment of escalating manufacturing challenges, including intense global competitiveness, environmental regulation and energy supply issues, managers have both lean and green manufacturing (also known as “clean manufacturing”) technology
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Label It Sustainable

April 1, 2012
By Mike Witte
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The call for sustainable packaging is growing louder. Retailers hear it and are pushing consumer goods manufacturers – who are, in turn, summoning the converters – to produce packaging and
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Downgauging: Weight Loss Tips for Flexible Packaging

April 1, 2012
By Bernard Rioux
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Manufacturers of packaged goods today are constantly challenged to reduce packaging – for cost and environmental reasons – while ensuring it still serves the primary purpose: protect the contents and
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Sustainability: Flexible Packaging Gets a Bad Wrap

April 1, 2012
By Jeff Wooster, Global Sustainability Leader, Performance Packaging, The Dow Chemical Company
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Activists criticize it. Environmentalists decry it. Recyclers fear it. Consumers question it. Anyway you cook it, flexible packaging takes the heat. But is all this criticism justified? No. This bias
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Green Plants, Processes and Products: Recycling the Nation's Scrap

April 1, 2012
By Erin Wolford
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Comfortably situated in Washington’s gorgeous, agriculturally rich Yakima valley, Rainier Plastics has been successfully reprocessing plastic scrap for more than 40 years, with today’s rate at a 24/7 pace. While
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Sustainable Films and Substrates: Degradable or Recyclable?

March 1, 2012
By Felipe Sixto
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According to recent studies by Ceresana Research and The Freedonia Group, the global bioplastics market will expand 17.8 percent annually and reach nearly $2.9 billion million by 2015.Bioplastics' OutlookBioplastics can
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Quantifying Your Sustainable Practices

April 1, 2011
By Erin Wolford
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Sustainability is morally right, but in business, sustainability has to make business sense, too. For Prairie State Group’s (PSG) executives and managers, sustainability is a major goal, when it does
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