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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 96 Stories and Links on the Internet below.
Featured Stories
- Eagle Flexible Packaging will be constructing a new 52,000 square building in Waupun, WI
- Packaging Papers and Specialty Packaging increased 13% in December 2024
- The Amazon in 2025 challenges and hope as the rainforest takes center stage
- Graphic Packaging hits key milestone constructing recycled cardboard facility
- Amazon co-founder MacKenzie Scott has spent more than $19 billion on charity over the past 5 years.
- Kimberly-Clark international business attracts interest from major players
- International Paper to build $260 million plant in Iowa
- UW Madison the best college town in the United States
- The Custom Packaging Market Trends Remarkable Growth Driven by Personalization and Sustainability
- Green Bay considers rezoning former Georgia Pacific paper mill
- Packaging Market to reach $1.5 trillion by 2030 growing at 4.64 CAGR.
- Navigating the future of the pulp, paper, and packaging industries.
- Coca-Cola Reusable Packaging promise falls flat.
- UW Madison 2024 in review building on strong foundations
- Ahlstrom expands it’s capabilities with specialty materials life for sciences acquisition.
- What state makes the most Cheese – Wisconsin
- Orbis to close Menasha plant laying off 109 employees
- Data Center developer plans $200 million project in Wisconsin Rapids.
- Amcor and Berry Global move closer to merger with joint proxy statement
- Food Package market poised for growth,stability, and Sustainability.
- McKinley Paper responds to reports of sludge along the Fox River
- Amcor Berry global merger approved a $8.4 billion deal
Printing
- Hybrid printing market worth $10.2 billion by 2028
- Flexographic Printing Market worth $10.6 billion by 2028
- e-commerce opens high revenue opportunities for commercial printers
- Printing Role in Driving Sustainability
- Sustainability legislation drives packaging innovation for recycling
- Flexographic Printing Market worth $10.6 Billion by 2028
- The Printing Industry Achilles Heel….Marketing
- Wadsworth: Why printed catalogs are making a comeback
- Getting more from your print production operations
- Digital Printing with dry toner becoming more productive
- Label printing industry an ever evolving and growing market
- Flexo emerges stronger with wider, faster and more productive presses.
- Brands level up with digital printing for packaging
- Packaging inks growth in packaging at 7% CAGR
Packaging
- Michelman: Transforming the way packaging is designed, produced, used and recovered
- This water based paper could revolutionize Packaging and Replace Plastic.
- Packaging labels power future expansion in world of print
- Branding and Design Packaging Trends that Shaped 2024 with Sustainable Packaging Trend in 2025
Sustainability
- Maine awarded $22 million to innovate sustainable wood products.
- UW Madison Corporate Sustainability internship program a win-win for students and businesses.
- Sustainable Manufacturing : The Role of Waste Management
- Innovation unpacked: Navigating the future of sustainable packaging
- Innovations in biodegradable packaging materials for a sustainable future
- Essity rank as one of the most sustainable companies
- UW Madison Sustainability Experts
Plastic
- Norway could lead the way in plastic pollution.
- The Age of Plastic
- Scientists discover plastic eating insects eating plastic.
- Minnesota became the first state to target plastic in food
- Plastics revolutionary soft sustainable material set to transform medical devices and wearable tech
- Peak plastic consumption: Bending the plastic curve
- EPA releases strategy against plastic pollution
- Scientists are making discovery with microplastics in soil impact on agriculture.
- Restaurants struggle for options to single use packaging!
Education
- UW Madison Japan’s National Institute for Fusion science strengthen research partnership.
- Wisconsin School of Business excels in latest US News ranking.
- UW Green Bay sets enrollment records.
- UW Madison ranked 8th for study abroad and 18th for international students.
- Parker selected permanent Dean of College Engineering, Mathematics and Science at UW Platteville.
- UW Madison ranks 7th among public education in undergraduate engineering program.
- UW Madison 6th in National ranking research surpasses $1.7 billion in research expenditures.
Manufacturing
- Manufacturing job boom not reaching not reaching places hit by China boom?
- Manufacturing has already made a comeback between 2019 to 2033.
- Manufacturing Chicago South suburbs see American robotic as the future
- US Manufacturing Power Wanes as China Influence Soars.
- US manufacturing Renaissance – yes please but it won’t be easy. The Wisconsin Paper Industry needs our help!
- Manufacturing Outlook 2025 Five Trends
- US Manufacturing Renaissance can bring Cristal jobs back to the USA.
