GBIG News
Get links to the latest news, events, stories, and interviews from our 5P news members. 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
- QPI of Fond du Lac expands Wisconsin Manufacturing footprint
- American Packaging Corp. Introduces APC FlexCube
- Three North American Paper and Packaging shutdowns highlight industry pressures
- Hewlett Packard enterprise expansion in Chippewa Falls
- Governor Evers announces $6.6 million in new grants to train over $3,800 workers in advanced manufacturing and ai
- Packaging innovations: PBR creates fear with beer: BW Converting and Ahlstrom
- Why competence keeps costing marketing its strategic time
- Industry Safety Organizations Recognize Georgia-Pacific for Excellence and Innovation
- A Milwaukee company turns your outside recycling into paper towels
- Dow and Amcor launch strategic collaboration to accelerate adoption of low carbon packaging solutions
- Nestle answers packaging sustainability approach
- US Paper Mill to restart papermaking at Chillicothe Mill in Ohio
- Aldi launches first ever collection of ready made meals
- Georgia-Pacific advances to final four of coolest thing made in Arkansas competition
- Barbara Koldos named interim President of New North
- Sellers names new President – COO
- IDDBA names new chair Susan Fanning
- Nekoosa Introducing NextBond durable adhesive for long term print applications
- Schreiber Foods to build new Missouri facility
Food
- Green Bay Food Innovation Center will be first of its kind in Wisconsin
- Farmers, grocers, and food packaging supply chain groups challenge California packaging law
- Belmark, Kirkland, and Ossid unite to launch first resealable fiber tray packaging for food categories
- Kikkoman opens third US production facility in Jefferson Wisconsin
- 5 market risks food beverage procurement teams should plan for in 2027
- Packaging innovations in the food industry
- Food Packaging Manufacturing
- Food Packaging Materials
- New trends in food packaging technologies
- Food packaging paper specifications guide to GSM Coatings and pulp
- Hormel. Acquires Wisconsin based Brake Bush Foods
- Georgia-Pacific foodservice solutions helps convenience retailers win more meals with food service expertise and packaging
AI
- How ai with packaging technology is changing retail.packaging
- The turbulent AI era is here.
- Why human connections are once better than ai for hiring
- How ai will reshape skills more than eliminate jobs
- The management playbook for ai
- The 10x Challenge: How AI Factories Are Redefining Energy Infrastructure
- ai is speeding up Scientific Research but not lab experiments
- Rekitt’s bold ambition harnessing AI to redefine revenue growth
Packaging
- Snack food packaging market to reach $25 + billion
- Smart packaging ai food spoilage in real time
- Top 8 FCS-Certified Packaging Manufacturers in 2026
- Packaging has changed recycling systems haven’t kept up report says
- Corrugated packaging market to reach $272.9 billion by 2035
- Aseptic packaging market worth $123.76 billion by 2031
- In-mould labeled plastic packaging market report
- Printed rigid packaging market with paper and paperboard to hold 39.1%
- UV barrier paper packaging market
PFAS
- Keep food containers safe from pfas with proposed legislation
- Scientists found a genius way to remove forever chemicals from soil
- Scientists find two ways to break down forever chemicals in water
- Chemours, DuPont, Corteva reach $455 PFAS settlement
- UV light study reveals new pathway for pfas destruction
- Yale: Removing forever chemicals from farmlands for a fraction of the cost
- Michigan invests $1.9 million to help farmers deal with pfas contamination
- PFAS Remediation across Europe/USA: cost and limited impacts
Education
- Michigan Tech mixed 6 treated waste glass waste into asphalt, dynamic stability rose 42.3%
- UW Stout Polytechnics healthy fall enrollment growth
- UW Stevens Point Process Control Engineering
- UW Platteville instructors exchange ideas at 2026 faculty college retreat
- UW Milwaukee creates strategies for artificial intelligence in classroom
- Milwaukee School of Engineering named a 2026-2027 College of Distinction
- UW Madison rises in entrepreneurship ranking to number six
- UW Stout: They started Stout polytechnic students do more day one
- Three Harvard Researchers Leave for Canadian Universities Amis US Funding Struggles
- UW Stevens Point partners with foodfarm exploration center
Members
- Sun Chemical Digital Textile Printing Pigment Inks
- Sun Chemical gains recyclass. Flexible Packaging Certification
- Paper Dimensions: Tag Stock for Reinforcement Patches
- Rapids Paper + Packaging expands Ecova barrier for packaging
- Choosing the Right Plastic
- Hoffman: 10 considerations when renovating or building a stadium
- First Business Bank: Why fewer Bank branches mean better Business Banking
- Ahlstrom: Women in operations – Meet Kelly Guay
- JP Morgan aspires to provide $1 billion to manufacturers in Michigan
- Fyertech marks 30 years in business
- Mockups – 4 – You accelerate growth expands team and production capabilities
