Flexible Packaging

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2018 November

Among the articles in the November 2018 issue of Flexible Packaging Magazine, learn more about the products featured at this year's Labelexpo Americas 2018, read the latest Roundtable on static control, and much more!

Cover Story

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Women in Manufacturing
Cover Story: Women in Manufacturing

Women in Manufacturing: Charting a Path to Progress

Susan Stansbury
November 7, 2018
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Today, about 30 percent of manufacturing employees are women. While you might think that this is a substantial representation, it’s actually a number that has stayed pretty consistent since the 1970s. In fact, according to the U.S. Census Bureau, though women make up nearly half of the overall workforce, they remain underrepresented in the manufacturing industry.
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Feature Articles

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A Fully Recyclable PE Pouch
Converter’s Corner

Coming in 2019: A Fully Recyclable PE Pouch

November 7, 2018
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Mondi and Werner & Mertz are introducing a new, patented innovation in 2019: A 100 percent recyclable pouch with detachable decorative panels. The pouch replaces conventional flexible packaging for Frosch products and features a pioneering design that overcomes many shortcomings of the recycling process.


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People in Packaging: 2018 11 Heske
People in Packaging

HQC’s Joe Haske Instrumental in Launching and Growing Fitments Division

November 8, 2018
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Historically, HQC is a custom molding company. However, as the Oswego, Illinois-based company grew out of a garage shop to an 80,000 square-foot facility, it only made sense for leadership to consider adding more services. One that Blair Pasternak, HQC president, has always had his eye on is flexible packaging – and that’s where Joe Haske enters this story.


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Pouch Panorama

Global Pouch West offers broad overview of developments, trends in flexible packaging.
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John Kalkowski
October 18, 2018
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This year’s Global Pouch West heads to Arizona with a dynamic program targeted to flexible packaging professionals doing business in the western U.S.


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Printing: Flexo

Flexible Packaging’s Changing Printing Environment

M&As have brought together many plants producing a variety of work flows and packaging requirements. Flexo presses should be tailored to each individual plant’s requirement and niche market
Wallace Nard
November 14, 2018
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Most machinery manufacturers design, engineer and build equipment according to how they perceive the overall market, and then competition follows suit. It is the old cookie-cutter approach.
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FPA Update

FPA Holds Successful Fall Executive Conference

November 1, 2018
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The Flexible Packaging Association recently held its 2018 Fall Executive Conference at the InterContinental in Chicago, Illinois. The conference was preceded by the association’s Board of Directors and Executive Committee meetings. This issue of the FPA Update highlights some of the presentations.
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