GBIG News
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 90 Stories and Links on the Internet below.

Featured Stories
- RR Donnelley 2023 Packaging Realty Report on the Impact of Continued eCommerce Demands
- UW System: Training the next generation on the importance of water in Wisconsin
- Table salt sodium chloride recycling plastics cost effective and simple
- $220 billion is helping build US cleantech infrastructure in the USA.
- Bayfield farm launches new tree species made clean pollution thrive
- UW Madison finds tributaries play significant role in Great Lakes PFAS
- Westrock stock surges on news of merger with Smurfit
- Enercon to open new corporate headquarters
- Billerud Escanaba to temporarily layoff employees
- Green Bay based Fosber and HP form partnership to enhance solutions for digital print
- Vice President Kamala Harris to visit UW Madison
Events
- The Printing, Packaging and Converting Expo will be on September 28th at the Radisson Hotel with plenty of space for Exhibitors and Attendees.
- Manufacturing First at the Resch Center October 25 First Business Bank
- Wisconsin Economic Summit
- INDA and the Waterloo Filtration Institute to Partner for FiltXPO 2023 in Chicago
- Women in Leadership October 3 & 4 in Green Bay
- St. Norberts College CEO breakfast series with top business leaders
Wisconsin
- UW Madison again scores high in several categories supporting the Wisconsin business community
- Wausau Coated Products launch wash away Adhesives
- Microsoft breaks ground on $1 Billion data center in Mt. Pleasant
- Foxconn deal a giant loser for Wisconsin and offering $3 billion in tax credits and our legislators not supporting Education!
- ST Paper LLC. Paper Mill takes altered check fight to the Federal Reserve
- Florence sawmill operator agrees compliance with federal child labor laws after teen suffers fatal injuries
- PFAS breakthrough Wausau filtration system exceeding levels proposed by state officials
Pfas
- Wells have some of the highest level pfas in the USA
- PFAS: Is cleaning up forever chemicals like pfas on the horizon?
- Plant materials effectively capture water microplastics and cost effective
- Groundwater treatment systems to address forever chemicals planned near Michigan militarily base
- No one told them they couldn’t get pregnant and no one told them their ovaries held forever chemicals
- Wisconsin Legislator introduces more funding to monitor PFAS cleanup
- 3-M Announces $10.3 Billion Dollar settlement in forever chemicals case
- Forever Chemical in our water and homes UW System study
Plastic
- First draft of global plastics agreement released
- Dow: Seek together to create solutions to plastic waste.
- US exports of scrap plastic falls
- Plastic FREE JULY – How can we design and reduce plastic pollution?
- Microplastics discovered in the body of whales, dolphins and seals.
- Greenpeace: Recycling used as a plastic industry smokescreen
- Plastic : Scientists improve process for turning hard-to-recycle plastic waste into fuel
- PRI invests $12 million to serve the auto and electronics plastics Recycling market
- Bio-plastic packaging market expected to grow at 7.7 % CAGR through 2030.
Coating
- Pixelle Specialty Solutions: Supplying food packaging papers that deliver an optimal balance of strength and printability that stand out o the shelf
- Green Bay Packaging Coated Products Division: Creating environmentally friendly pressure sensitive label stocks
- Appvion: Creating game changing coating for paper products
- Sierra Coating: Market Leading Roll to Roll of Laminated & Coated Paper, Film and Nonwovens.
Paper
- MATIV to sell Engineered Paper business for $620 million
- Billerud introduces new regional organization for Europe and appoints acting CFO.
- Amcor paper based packaging products may be a solution
- Paper Excellence Croften mill shut down 3rd time and delaying of $70 million of funding in upgrades leaving employees in limbo.
- Reports of Big Paper Death has been Exaggerated
- Paper Excellence – Domtar to permanently idle Espanola Mill in Ontario
- Food Packaging: Can paper Packaging outperform plastics
- Mondi increases functional barrier coating to meet demand to meet customer demands for sustainability paper products
- Another source of PFAS in Wisconsin toilet paper
Sponsors
- JP Morgan/Chase: Local Business Expands to the World
- Erhardt-Leimer: Cutting edge technology
- American Packaging freeze out the competition
- Wikoff Digital partners with intelligent material solutions to deliver security inks.
- Miron Construction community impact report
- Cornerstone Business Services flight to quality in m/a
- ePpca Flexibles: How long does it take to make Flexible Packaging for cpg products?
- ECO3 Enters Flexo with complete prepress solutions
- Hybrid Software releases ic3d version 9
- Pixelle Launches New Portfolio of Barrier Papers as a Sustainable Replacement to Single Use Plastic Packaging
- EMT International leads successful introduction program in cnc machining
- Colordyne’s new inkjet engine for labels