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 96 Stories and Links on the Internet below.
Featured Stories
- P & G Environmental Sustainability is embedded in how we do business! The Green Bay community appreciates your support!
- Sofidel America Duluth produces first roll of paper.
- Menasha Corporation celebrates 175 years of innovation
- Feds provides $15 million for science initiatives to aid great lakes manufacturing including Wisconsin
- Coalesce Marketing Design celebrates 20 years.
- Amcor announces expansion of thermoforming production in Oshkosh.
- Wisconsin undergraduates help develop a new course about the human impact on Lake Michigan coast
- Why is China so hungry for American Investment funding! It is time to invest into America’s Paper Manufacturing instead of China.
- Woodcentral reports China, India and Russia as hedge against global supplies. It is time to support Americans Timber Industry.
- Paper Excellence/Domtar shuts down Vancouver Island after receiving $18.80 million from the Provincial Government in Canada
- Asian Pulp & Paper and Royal Golden Eagle: Reversing progress drives up deforestation rates again
- UW Madison Engineering highlights for 2023
- Sustana brings collection recycling production together.
Events
Printing
- Smithers Assesses Top 20 Disruptive Technologies Set to Revolutionize Printing through 2031
- Steady 3.1% growth in packaging printing market
- 7 Great Packaging Designs with Offset Printing
- Book Manufacturers outlook digital printing soothes slowdown and concerns with paper.
- Suttle-Straus Madison ranks 129 on the list of 300 largest printing companies
- The decline in skilled print workers a cause for concern
- Exciting New Ways to Package Products with Digital Printing Technologies with Personalization
- Thysee Printing leadership team grows with expanded services
- Elevating printing inks for sustainability
- Commercial Printing updates over the past years.
- Global printing inks reports $23.6 billion by 2030
- Printing industry outlook for 2024 and packaging is leading the way.
- Digital ink market continues its growth.
Coating
- Coating from wood by-product can keep our glasses and windows clean
- BIORIGIN: Antimicrobial coatings to water based barriers that lock-in flavors for our Food Service clients.
- Solenis barrier coating elimination PFAS
- Bio-based coating making packaging waterproof
- The Future of Functional Barrier Coatings for Paper & Board 2026
Education
- UW System & Tech Colleges developing Stem Transfer Program
- The Rockefeller Foundation Announces Laura May Lung Cha a UW Madison graduate joins it’s Board of Trustees
- Michigan Tech Professor Adrienne Minerick inducted to Hall of Fame
- $10 million dollar gift to Lawrence College for new academic building and innovative center
- UW Platteville sees increase in Freshman class second-year plus growth overall.
- UW Milwaukee: Microsoft gives UWM $1.2 million supporting manufacturing.
- UWSP: Becoming outdoors Women
- UW System honors Neenah based Plexus collaboration with UW Platteville
- UW Stevens Point President talks about health of UW System and lack of investment in it!
- Why so many US educated foreign students don’t stay for work in the USA?
- UW Madison Engineering New Certificate Program instills data service skills for Engineers
- UW Madison new certificate program data science skills for engineers
- Michigan State University approves $25 million for the school of packaging.
Packaging
- Single-Dose Syringe Folding Carton by Colbert Packaging Corp * 2023 Richard DePaul Award
- Packaging Innovation is the key meeting shifting consumer expectations
- 10 Top Design Trends in 2024 in Printing and Packaging
- Looking to shine in 2024 with the latest trends in finishing embellishments in packaging.
- 5 Sustainable Packaging Predictions for 2024
- Amazon on operating more sustainability for customers & communities.
- 34 Soap packaging ideas that look and smell great.
- Folding carton market with steady growth through 2027
- Rising packaging and tissue markets lifts fiber prices
- Steady growth for the folding carton market through 2028 with a focus on sustainability.
- Rising packaging and tissue markets lift fiber prices.
Forestry
- Importance of Sustainable Forests
- Prescribed fires let eagles soar and improve habitat
- Do forest growth tell the whole story
- America’s most recycled resource our forests
- Nature Trends to watch in 2024 impacting our planet
- With smart approach forests can absorb more carbon
- Forest health and mass timber
- USDA volunteers team up to replant storm damaged forest areas in Northern Wisconsin
- Deforestation in Brazilian Amazon emissions of 90 millions of metric tons of co2
- California forests healthier when thinned.
- 7 billion trees threatened massive undersupply
Sponsors
- Wikoff Color $200 million in Sales: sheetfed, web offset, flexographic and gravure inks
- A-pac choses Vetaphone Corona for its extrusion lines
- Robinson, Inc. Integration is the key to delivering high quality packed skids
- ECO3: 1O reasons for web to print
- Boldt: How lights-out manufacturing is the future of manufacturing
- Schumann Printers acquires new UV Coater.
- Rocket Industrial: Stretch Wrap verses Shrink Wrap
- JP Graphics a BR company: What are die lines in packaging.
- First Business Bank: Growing your business with SBA Loans
- Zeta Group Engineering automation and much more!
- Involta data center in Green Bay. Schedule a Tour.
- Fox Valley Wood Products 60th Anniversary
- Appvion receives Green Masters Recognition
- PCMC/BW Converting: Rolling Tissue builds state of the art tissue converting innovation center in Miami
- ECO3 Software for Packaging and Labels
