As coffee consumption grows worldwide, pouches and bags prove popular despite increasing use of new forms such as pods and RTD bottles and cans.

The outbreak of the coronavirus in China could spur increased usage of flexible packaging to improve food safety, according to Brendan Connell-French, Wood Mackenzie research associate.

HP Inc. and ePac Flexible Packaging announced that ePac hit a new production record at the start of 2020 on its fleet of HP Indigo 20000 digital presses operating globally, driven by a doubling of its customer base in the past year.

TC Transcontinental is creating a Recycling Group within TC Transcontinental Packaging. This group will purchase equipment for converting flexible plastics recovered from sorting facilities and other sources into recycled plastic granules.

Anellotech has announced that a laboratory demonstration of its Plas-TCat technology – which transforms mixed flexible packaging plastic waste directly into chemicals used to make virgin PET for beverage bottles.

The Flexible Packaging Association (FPA) is pleased to announce the launch of its new website, www.flexpack.org. The FPA is committed to connecting, advancing, and leading the flexible packaging industry and the new website is a key communication tool in that quest.

"After more than two decades of rapid economic advancement in China, the past few years have seen GDP growth fall from over 10% in 2010 to 6.1% in 2019. This trend is reflected in flexible packaging, with double-digit sales growth at the beginning of the decade declining to 6.5% in 2019.

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