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Featured Stories
- Radius Packaging Announces Collaboration with LyondellBasell
- UW Platteville: Favour Butterfield Mechanical Engineering student from Florence honored achievement award researches recyclings plastics.
- It is time to Build the New Engineering Building: Wisconsin companies flock to UW Madison for Engineering Talent
- Amcor and Nova Chemicals announce agreement to source mechanically recycled polypropylene
- Paper Excellence fsc complaint due to ties to Asian Pulp and Paper
- Universities of Wisconsin enrollment grows by 1,700 led by UW Green Bay first increase since 2014.
- UW Green Bay rises again as the fastest growing University in Wisconsin
- Georgia-Pacific elevates sustainability commitment with $550 million brawny project in Green Bay.
- Michigan Tech and UW Madison institute grant and partnership announced for circular recycling hard to recycle multiple layers plastic
- Green Bay Packaging plans new $60 million manufacturing facility in Germantown.
- Sheboygan Box Company celebrates a century
Wisconsin
- Inland Packaging: In Mold labels
- Conagra select Foth to construct the building along with Bolt, Bassett Mechanical and Strand Associates
- Proposal would allow Timber Industry truck heavier loads
- UW Rothman talks pay raises diversity, and education. Wisconsin needs a educated workforce to support our industries
- Green Bay PR Firm acquired by Milwaukee firm
- Biden Harris Administration Announces the largest clean up under epas in the Great Lakes
- Sellars Absorbent Materials introduced Bravo paper towels in Sendik’s and Woodman’s
- Colbert Packaging receives business friend of the environment award
- Governor Evers to invest $36 million in 5 buildings in spite of of Republican oppositions creating 400 jobs and $68 million in economic activity
- UW Madison Engineering and The Business Community support Building a new Engineering Building. Vos refuses to support it!
- Transcontinental Packaging closesdown Tomah, WI plant
- Sheridan Worzella eliminates about 60 positions in Stevens Point. Sheridan recently purchased Worzella.
PFAS
- pfas update epa eliminates tri reporting
- Fresh calls for ban on on forever chemicals in food packaging
- DNR touts benefits it’s proposed pfas standards for groundwater
- US Chemical Industry spends $110 million to thwart pfas legislation
- EPA Leader says agency committed finalizing pfas standards in drinking water in Wisconsin
- pfas in Wisconsin shallow wells tested 71%.
- No loopholes for polluters for those responsible for PFAS must pay.
- Legal liability of PFAS could exceed tobacco
- pfas polluted island filed claims against Wisconsin City
- pfas victims worry clean up bill would shield polluters with tax payers picking up the bill.
- Most Americans are oblivious to pfas
Plastics
- Remade Institute awards millions in plastic recycling grants
- Can we safely burn waste to make fuel like they do in Denmark?
- 3 Ways to stop plastics pollution crises
- Putting starch into bio based polymer Bioplastics makes it more compostable
- Recycling plastics indefinitely
- Filling the Gaps boosting supply of recycled materials for packaging.
- Pactiv Evergreen and Exxon Mobile collaborate to leverage advanced recycling for food service industry packaging
- Coca- cola and Nestlé face lawsuits misleading recycling claims
China
- China planning innovative export controls with US, India and Europe. It is time to level the playing for US Businesses supporting our manufacturi
- It is time to de-coupe and de-risk from China. We need to support USA manufacturing and build trusted relationships with partners worldwide.
- Visualizing the $94 Trillion World Economy in One Chart
- Iconic Brands Owned by China
- China is coming for our kids with these dangerous products – Fentanyl
- We welcomed China into the global system. In return, China has exported oppression, aggression and anti-Americanism
- Hawley proposes bull revolking China’s preferential trade status
- The China Trade Relations Act has been re-introduced in support of revoking China’s Permanent Normal Trade Relations
- China’s quest to dethrone the US dollar
- China calling in its loans to poor countries – Debt trap diplomacy
- Chinese companies linked to illegal logging and mining
- Bankrolled and bioengineered, China supplants Wisconsin paper industry
- China high quality log buying grows, by passing U.S. sawmills
Sponsors
- Appvion: The next generation of thermal labels
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- ECO3 launches new flexo plate system for label printers
- EMT International in Hobart unveils New Generation perf-punch-line
- Korber broadens packaging offer
- First Business Bank: Northeastern Wisconsin Visionary Business Leaders
- Sure Controls – The benefits of replacing obsolete Parker drives.
- Schumann Printers fresh off the press updates!
- Reusing corrugated boxes made easy – Box Latch Products
- Precision Roll Solutions high quality process rolls
- Supply Chain Transformation insights from Glenroy’s VP of Operations