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Get links to the latest news, events, stories, and interviews from our 5P news sponsors. Our goal is to remind the decision-makers in Wisconsin of the importance of our industry both historically, and more importantly, into the future.
Read the latest 68 Stories and Links on the Internet below.
Featured Stories
- Billerud in second place in the report on sustainability
- Redline Plastics in Manitowoc buys Georgia-based Quality Holdings
- Hoffmaster Group acquires Paterson Pacific Parchment Company
- Billerud Appoints New President for North America
- ND Pulp Mill in Maine is shutting down for an extended period with a paper and pulp mill in Wisconsin Rapids
- Glenroy takes 2023 FPA Highest Achievement Award
Events
- Registration open for New North Summit on June 8th with early bird registration
- Converting Industry In Wisconsin with Converters Expo coming to Lambeau on April 12-13, 2023.
- Apricity contract packaging tour April 19 in Appleton starting at 2:00 pm followed by networking and refreshments – FREE
- Florence Sustainability Conference April 19th UW Madison and the GLTA.
Plastics
- Closed Loop Partners fund Announces New investors catalyzing capital towards circular economy – CNG Wisconsin
- US sees Recycling as a key part of global plastics deal
- Could waste plastics become a useful fuel
- Why most plastics can’t be recycled. The USA by far the world’s biggest polluter and producer of flexible packaging.
- Tekra Best in Class for high performance plastic film. premier adhesives, and the science of coating
- Empowering investors to engage with companies on plastic waste and pollution
- Is plastic trash in the middle of the ocean becoming a new kind of island habitat?
- Plastics everywhere: Microplastics permeate the globe from ocean depths to the highest mountaintops – and our bodies
- Plastic Pollution by Country 2021
- Scientists Discover Coastal Marine Life Thriving on Plastic Ocean Trash
- Recycling of multilayer plastic packaging material by solvent target recovery and precipitation
- The Plastic Alternative That Dissolves Safety In Water
- The Future of Plastic Recycling is in need of more efficient methods. Europe is leading the way.
- Beyond Plastics: Plastic Recycling doesn’t work and it never will
- Charting the movement of global plastic waste
- U.S. Plastic Recycling Rates Are Even Worse Than We Thought
Forest
- Member of Natural Resource wants to see more money to maintain habitats and public land
- More mill closures as forest industry crisis deepens
- Drone tree planting reforestation after wildfires
- Forest Products Sustainability Projects Making Headlines
- How Forestry Companies Can Supercharge Their Manufacturing Execution System
- We must break away from the status quo policies of the last 30 years
Industry
- Can packaging give you a retail experience worth shopping for?
- Color Branding Mistakes
- Shake and Bake shakes up its packaging
- Ahlstrom highly engineered base paper for barrier development
- Automation, Digitization and Immigration is the reality for industry
- 5 sustainable packaging trends in packaging
- Al is quietly eating up the World’s workforce with job automation
- LSC closed two PA facilities and moves production to MN and IL.
- China’s New Import Tariff and its impact on the Global Paper Markets
- Ox Industries makes a $5 million investment. Ox has a facility in Stevens Point
Design
- Post Press: 2023’s Hottest Print Design Trends
- Letting Go of Ego Helped This Designer Create a Transformational Brand
- Three Reasons Brands Are Exploring Non-Digital Channels In Their Advertising Strategies
- Print Design, Typography and Color Trends for 2023,
- The 10 Top Packing Designs for 2023 – Sustainable Packaging Is Number One
- Holography heightens shelf appeal and security in consumer packaged goods
Sponsor
- Robinson offers expertise in custom metal manufacturing
- Vetaphone at Converters Expo in Green Bay
- Korber: Wrapping Tissue without Plastic
- First Business Bank aligning with non-profits
- Boldt: Delivering the Best in Healthcare Construction
- Sustana emissions reduction goal approved by the science based targets initiative.
- Mark Andy unveils smart link real time monitoring system
- AGFA: PRESS TUNE for accurate color
- Robinson, Inc.: Wisconsin Technical College System honors Robinson.
- ISG celebrates 50 years in business
- Rocket Industrial: Complete guide to different types of tape=
