Madigan will oversee the company’s machining center where parts are produced in-house, as well as the office staff and customer support functions.

We sit down with Dennis Calamusa, president and CEO of ALLIEDFLEX Technologies, to discuss advances in flexible packaging machinery and the direction of the pouch-making industry.

Plastics Plus Digital has installed an HP Indigo 20000 at its Parsippany, N.J. location. The company now offers customizable digital printing of flexible packaging along with lamination and pouch making services.

The Flexible Packaging Association’s (FPA) recent report, A Holistic View of the Role of Flexible Packaging in a Sustainable World, highlights the sustainability benefits of flexible packaging.

Historically, HQC is a custom molding company. However, as the Oswego, Illinois-based company grew out of a garage shop to an 80,000 square-foot facility, it only made sense for leadership to consider adding more services. One that Blair Pasternak, HQC president, has always had his eye on is flexible packaging – and that’s where Joe Haske enters this story.

First comes pouch making, then comes pouch filling – and new advances in filling machines enable co-packers and brands to increase efficiency and output when they’re running a number of SKUs or performing short- to medium-sized runs with many changeovers.