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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.
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Featured Stories
- Expansion investments capacity in the USA packaging industry
- Amcor considering to divest North American beverage business
- Dunnage packaging industry with Menasha Corporation as an American leader.
- UW Stout: Wisconsin researchers think 3D printers can revolutionize health care
- Femsa in merger of Bradyplus with Imperial Dade
- Barbara Koldos VP earns economic development certification
- Uline building large warehouse in CT.
- Layoff at LSC and closing at One Touchpoint
- Labelling market is booming worldwide with Wisconsin company as leaders.
- Kimberly-Clark reports best volume growth in five years
- Billerud investing in Escanaba and Quinnesec mills in Michigan
- Georgia-Pacific President and CEO announces retirement
- AI MIT and Duke chemists develop toughest plastics and cut down on plastic waste
- Global plastics crisis explained in 6 charts
- Billerud Advances upgrades in Escanaba and Quinnesec Michigan
- Amcor commitment to hiring and welcoming refugees
- Michigan State University Agricultural College faces layoffs after USAID cuts
- Shoppers to see higher prices from toilet paper to candy as businesses pass on tariff costs
Specialty Paper
- Ahlstrom launches flame resistant facer to enhance fire protection
- Barrier Coatings for packaging markets
- Barrier coated flexible paper packaging market size
- Barrier Coated paper market
- Storaenso guide book to barrier coatings
- Sustainable food packaging ProAmpac butter wrap
- Sustainability legislation drives packaging innovation for recycling
- BiOrgin Specialty paper revolutionary OGR paper for food packaging
Packaging
- Designing Custom Packaging: Key Factors to Consider
- The clean label movement in packaging
- How Dow drives sustainable packaging
- Digital Printing is making inroads in packaging
- Single use packaging market with a projected 6.1% cagr growth rate
- UW Stout Molded Fiber Association awards Students First Place for sustainable packaging solution.
- Why folding cartons are the natural next step for converters
- North America paperboard packaging market
- Paper-Packaging Board marketing USDA program terminated
- Bridging the discipline from labels to flexible packaging
Education
- UW Madison ranks 30th worldwide in our list. Wisconsin legislature need to support education
- The University of Utah could lose $100 million annually for critical research
- UW Green Bay adding Software Engineering
- Trump administration unfreeze billions in education due to public outcry.
- Trump administration cuts UCLA research funds
- UNC announces cuts to federal funding.
- Northwestern to eliminate more than 400 staff positions due financial press due to federal cuts
- The best US Colleges for high paying finance jobs
- Science funding freeze could set research back Harvard
- Harvard endowment could shrink as much as 40% from White House policies
- Trump threatens Harvard over patents worth hundreds of millions of dollars
- Scientists who fled the Nazis built the atomic bomb and lead the world in science. Is the USA going the same direction?
PFAS
- Environment groups, community advocates push for progress on pfas legislation
- This new catalyst destroys forever chemicals within just seconds
- New soybean fighter fighting foam chemical replaces plas from a Wisconsin based company
- Over 73 million people exposed to play in US drinking water
- PFAS UPDATE: States continue to be in the forefront on PFAS products
Plastic
- 27 million tons of nanoplastics discovered in the North Atlantic
- Plastics that melts into nature with no impact on the environment
- Teel Plastics: Medical plastics Extrusion market is booming rapidly
- Scientists unveils bioplastics that degrades at room temperature
- Why are global plastics treaty need to move beyond negotiations
- Can a global treaty solve the plastic problem?
- Microplastics are infiltrating your brain and what are the effects
- Plastics impact on health costs $1.5 trillion every year report warns
- Researchers developed game changing filter that can filter out microplastics
Sponsors
- The McClone Method: The insurance industry is broken
- Voorwood: The leader band Customizing Converting Equipment
- Adhesco Graphics De Pere appoints Chad Atkinson as Business Development Manager for North America
- Wintrust arranges $90 million in financing to Midwest based printing company
- Miron Construction becomes Platinum certified employee friendly workplace
- Fox Valley Wood Products Protecting your Product and Sustainability
- Primient supports sustainable agriculture ingredients