We sat down and discussed bag/pouch making with Sanjay Amin from Mamata Enterprises, Inc., Scott Fuller from CMD Corporation, Raul Matos from Karlville, James F. Pease from Sun Centre USA, Jesse Rosenow from Totani America, James Russell from Modern Manufacturing Services, LLC, and Joe Vannieuwenhoven from B&B Packaging Technologies. What follows are the excerpts from that discussion.

Flexible Packaging recently caught up with Dave Muchorski, director of marketing at Testing Machines Inc., for an update on what’s new in the field and how coefficient of friction can impact printing and converting operations.

Minneapolis-based Mocon, an international provider of instruments and services for testing, measuring and analyzing invisible gases, has promoted its previous vice president of sales and marketing for the company's packaging testing products and services segment, Karsten Kejlhof, to vice president of sales and marketing for its package testing and permeation businesses.

For over 30 years the TMI Elmendorf Tear tester has been best known for its robust design providing precision measurements for paper, plastic films, textiles, corrugated and board materials, company officials say.

Oliver Stauffer, vice president and COO of Packaging Technologies and Inspection (PTI), talks testing, quality control, inspection and detection as it pertains to medical and pharmaceutical applications.