Avery Dennison has some ambitious sustainability goals it wants to hit by 2025. It wants to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 3 percent year-over-year, go up to 95 percent landfill-free, eliminate 70 percent of matrix and liner, and source film and chemicals more responsibly, among others.

It was about three years ago when Bear Naked Granola decided it wanted to overhaul the packaging on its line of best-selling granolas and granola bites. As a leading brand in the granola space, it wanted to take the lead in another important category: sustainable packaging. But the brand wanted to maintain the feel, function and appearance of its current packaging.

Toppan USA will showcase a range of sustainable barrier films at PACK EXPO, specifically the GL-GP, Barrier-Coated BOPP, GL-EY-A and Coated Met-PET.

Saica Flex has designed a 100 percent recyclable cover that adapts to APET trays.

Sun Chemical will showcase its SunBar (Aerobloc) oxygen-barrier coatings during the Global Pouch Forum June 14-16 in Miami.

Sun Chemical will be honored with a Frost & Sullivan Award for its SunBar (Aerobloc) oxygen barrier coatings during Frost & Sullivan’s Excellence in Best Practices Awards Gala on Jan. 11, 2017, at the San Diego Marriott La Jolla.

Here’s a way to answer questions you get about efforts to increase the resource recovery rate of flexible packaging. It is a brochure titled Flexible Packaging Resource Recovery: A Work-in-Progress.