Minus Works is the first gel pack manufacturer to achieve this standard.

The new film is designed for applications across food, beverage, grocery retail, quick service restaurant, stadium foodservice and other CPG and industrial segments.

Cushions are plastic sheets filled with air, which are used to provide padding to products within a packaging box.

Rising adoption of sustainable packaging and biodegradable packaging solutions will propel the growth of the flexible packaging market.

Beginning in April the company will use biodegradable paper.

Milliken will collaborate with GO!PHA to address the technical and market development challenges related to polyhydroxyalkanoate (PHA) biodegradable biopolymers.  

Thomas, a provider of product sourcing, supplier selection and marketing solutions for industry manufacturing, released its '2020 Q4 Top Manufacturing Trends,' identifying the top products and services sourced by North American manufacturers, as well as sharing predictions for 2021 industrial sourcing trends. 

Companies operating in the biodegradable packaging market are adopting business strategies such as new technology and product development, geographical expansion, and mergers and acquisitions.

In the last year, as many as 350 brand owners and retailers globally have announced plans to make all of their packaging recyclable, compostable or reusable by the year 2025. At the same time, some of these companies are going a step further by saying they plan to reduce the use of virgin plastics in their packaging — often by as much as 50 percent.