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Derrick Teal

Derrick Teal

Derrick Teal is the content manager for Flexible Packaging.

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What’s Next?

While we’ve yet to arrive at a circular economy, what’s the next test for the industry once we do?
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March 16, 2021
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Last month, Glen Gudino, Flexible Packaging’s publisher, and I had a chat with Dennis Calamusa, president and CEO of Alliedflex. It was a wide-ranging discussion that at one point turned toward the topic of a circular economy.
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Flexible Packaging is Coming Around

Innovative products start with an idea, and those products are around the corner as the industry thinks more about the circular economy
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March 14, 2021
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Regular readers would know that the featured topic last month was about the advances in sustainability within the flexible packaging industry.
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The Future of Accountability

The circumstances involving one child could have a ripple effect across the world
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March 12, 2021
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I wouldn’t be surprised if you haven’t heard the name Ella Kissi-Debrah before. She was a 9-year-old living in southeast London near one of its busiest roads and suffered from severe asthma, which caused her numerous trips to the hospital between 2010 and 2013. Finally, in February 2013, her asthma brought on a cardiac arrest and she died.
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Let’s Create Some Face Time

Circumstances have kept many of us from meeting face to face, but here’s the next-best alternative.
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January 6, 2021
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So, it’s a New Year, and as you can see, we’ve got a new look — well, on the digital edition. The new look of the website is coming. A lot people use the New Year to make a change. I can with 100% certainty tell you that we didn’t use that as an excuse to effect these changes.
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In the Spotlight

Executive Forecast: How the past year will shape flexible packaging in 2021

2020 proved that not everything can be predicted or planned for, and it left an indelible mark on expectations for the year to come.
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January 4, 2021
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2020 showed us that “the best laid plans of mice and men often go awry.” Is that going to stop people from making plans? No. Is it going to stop Flexible Packaging editors from asking what those plans are and sharing them with everyone? Clearly, no.


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Top 10 Flexible Packaging Products of 2020

These are the products and packages that you, the reader, wanted to see the most in the past year.
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December 22, 2020
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This year was an odd year, to say the least, but flexible packaging carried on. There’s been an ever-growing shift toward flexible packaging, especially pouches. As you’ll see, pouches are exactly what Flexible Packaging’s readers wanted to see throughout 2020.


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Bring on 2021

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December 16, 2020
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Personally, I now understand why take-your-child-to-work day only happens once a year instead of Every. Single. Day. I also don’t think I ever want to work in an office where you can bring your pets — and I’m only having to deal with my own. 


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Flexible by Design

While this space is typically reserved for actual packages and their design, ProAmpac’s new digital tool, MAKR, has all the…well, makings of a fit for this section.
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December 11, 2020
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You might find this a bit of a shock, but as a career writer and editor I’ve never actually designed my own package. However, we ran a news story about ProAmpac’s MAKR when it made its debut back in August. 


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P&G Beauty Untangles Hair Care Sustainability

The company has launched a reusable aluminum bottle system with pouch refills at scale.
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December 9, 2020
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Europe has a leg up on the U.S. in a couple of regards when it comes to recycling, namely facilities capable of recycling more types of materials and a cumulative population that, in general, recycles more. 


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Editor’s Note

Technology is Janus

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November 4, 2020
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Technology is funny. Like the Roman god Janus, the god of duality (among other things), it’s both a boon and a burden.
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