As part of IHS Markit’s (IHS) ongoing services to the Flexible Packaging Association (FPA), IHS wrote a follow-up polyethylene report based on the presentation given by Nick Vafiadis, Vice President, Plastics, IHS Markit, at the recent FPA Annual Meeting.

DowDuPont will invest approximately $100 million over the next two years to expand manufacturing capacity and to modernize facilities at its Sabine River Works plant in Orange County, Texas.

Ashok Chaturvedi, founder, chairman and managing director of Uflex Limited has been honored with The Economic Times’ 2018 Polymers Lifetime Achievement Award.

Flint Group has named Pablo Steenwinkel as technical director of flexible packaging for Europe, the Middle East and Africa.

Ralph Arcurio, a technical manager for the Polymer Science Team at Sun Chemical, was this year’s Inventor of the Year award recipient during a ceremony held at the W Hotel in Hoboken, New Jersey, on Oct. 27.

Klöckner Pentaplast is expanding capacity at its Gendorf, Germany film production site. The expansion will have multiple polymer capabilities to meet the growing demand of the shrink label marketplace and will begin production in early third quarter 2016, with completion scheduled for the first quarter of 2017.

Franklin Adhesives & Polymers is proud to unveil Covinax 234-01, a high-shear removable that offers clear results.

When it comes to food packaging, there is growing demand for solutions that are not only flexible, but more importantly, bio-based, recyclable and biodegradable.