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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
- Fosber Group.Green Bay has a new owner
- Evers appoints new CEO for Wisconsin Economic Development Corp.
- Domtar is permanently closing its Crofton pulp mill on Vancouver Island
- Wisconsin cuts environmental funding among highest in the USA
- IBC adds Fyterech Nonwovens based in DePere one of the largest sorbent manufacturers
- Vollrath investing $40 million in new facility
- SAPPI and UPM to combine their European based graphic paper business
- What Are the Types of Nonwovens?
- Good by to cement use soil, water, and cardboard.
- Trees For Tomorrow seeks donations for outdoor learning programs
- Performance in Seymour mills lumber in UP for pallets in Wisconsin
- The Converting paper market growing worldwide with future opportunities analysis by 2033
- Quad named to the inaugural Forbes list of America’s best employers for company culture
- Amcor lift off to accelerate more sustainable packaging innovation
- How Earth loses 324 billion meters of freshwater yearly
- The US economy needs International students now more than ever
- American industrial manufacturing is the key to survival in the global landscape and Wisconsin has the resources for it!
- 750 million at risk new study warns extreme water scarcity is closer than we think
- Pallets market to grow at 4.1% cagr led by Menasha Corporation millwood
- Frontline innovation unlocks new possibilities across Georgia-Pacific
- UW Madison coming soon the College of Computers and Artificial Intelligence
- Proampac buys Transcontinental
- Printpack closing Elgin plant
- Plant based plastic using cellulose fiber dissolves in water
- Personal care market set to boom lead by Amcor and Bemis – Wisconsin based companies
- How US Manufacturing was gutted with a smile
- $15 billion Stargate data center breaks ground in Wisconsin
- Study finds Northeastern Wisconsin Manufacturing 2026 is positive for sales and hiring
- Researchers at U-W Platteville turn spoiled dairy into 3D plastic
- Shawano County mill reopens easing strains on the timber processing in the Northwoods
- Quad Georgia facility to close job cuts to began soon
Packaging
- Healthcare Packaging Market top companies American Packaging in Wisconsin
- Food packaging industry outlook drivers sustainable packaging trends
- Paper’s Next Chapter: Innovation, Circularity, and Relevance reinvent packaging
- Food and Beverages trends influence packaging earnings
- Digital packaging market to reach $22 billion
- Resealable packaging labels top global industry trends in 2026
- Say cheese changing plastic to paper packaging
- Top 10 industrial packaging companies
- Machine glazed paper market surges due to Packaging and Sustainability
- 2025 trend tracker reveals consumer preferences for packaging
Label
- Self adhesive label market poised for rapid growth
- Print label market growing at 4.5% cagr
- Hybrid presses allow converters to produce eye catching labels plus enhancement in one pass
- Linerless label market projected to grow 3.9% in USA driven by sustainability and EPR
- In mold labels market growth at 4.8% cagr by 2035
Plastic
- Plastics recycled market size to reach $190.25 billion by 2035
- Plastic can be programmed to have a lifespan of days, months, or years
- Plastic pollution in Lake Erie soared over past decade research shows
- World’s gut of plastic will get worse by 2040
- Commodity plastic market growth at 4.5% cagr
- Microplastics are leaking invisible chemical clouds into rivers and oceans
Sustainability
- Sustainability blue economy is no longer enough and we are losing the battle
- Sustainability drives innovation and value in the tissue market
- Sustainability stays on top of mind for executives
- CEOS Sustainability is now a business priority not just a moral transition
- Sustainable packaging market expected to reach $73 billion by 2034
- Achieving sustainability together the environmental value of partnership Microsoft
- Proof in the Label how sustainability certifications are shaping the future of retail
- The TOP Sustainability developments of 2025
Forest
- Countries gaining the most forest area
- Fix Our Forests Act may be enough to fix our public lands management backlog
- Millions of hectares of forests still being cut down every year
- Central America great forests lifeline for North America birds
- Germany pledges $1 billion to Brazil’s rainforest protection fund
- Goodbye to steel scientists engineered a superwood lighter than steel and eco-friendly
Exhibitors
- Bardes Plastics
- PROOF is the new parent company including Sun Printing, Heyrman Printing, and Delzer Printing
- Voorwood Tooling for over 60 years
- First Business Bank banking and wealth expertise
- Precision Roll Solutions decades of roll to roll solutions
- Zeta Group Engineering mobil collaborative robot palletizer
- Bardes Plastics Innovation
- Ahlstrom recognizes as a climate action leadership score for second year in a row
- Sterling Feathers Coalesce Marketing joins the Board of the Fox Cities Chamber of Commerce
- Sun Chemicals Alan Neal receives NAPIMS pioneer award
- Sun Chemical Allan Neal receives NAPIMS pioneer Award
Members
- First Business Bank
- Digital Print Update with Domino leading the way
- Robinson, Inc. to expand production in Iowa.
- Bardes Plastics a leader in custom food packaging
- Ahlstrom launches flow2save filtration media improved air quality and energy savings
- Stroke RGA driving growth across the packaging industry
