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How Do Horizontal Form/Fill/Seal Machines Work?

Join us as we delve into the technology behind HFFS machines and how they are used in bagging and pouching lines across various industries.

November 6, 2025

Flexibles

End Markets Will Decide Flexible Film Recycling in CA, Elsewhere

As California’s EPR law advances, experts say redesigning flexible packaging for recyclability, and aligning those designs with viable end markets, will define how producer CPGs meet new recycling mandates.

November 5, 2025

Baled polyethylene film awaits processing. California’s EPR law is pushing investment in end markets and infrastructure to ensure that material like this finds a viable second life rather than landfill.

U.S. Flexible Packaging Keeps on Growing Through Headwinds

FPA’s Dan Felton reports steady growth and rising profitability amid a sense of watchful tension as new state EPR laws roll out that will directly affect how brands design and source packaging.

November 5, 2025

Dan Felton, FPA president and CEO, outlines the recovery challenges facing flexible packaging—including limited curbside access and lack of end markets—during the association’s 2025 State of the Industry presentation.

Through the Line Podcast: How Amazon Combines Tech and Material Innovation to Cut Waste

Paul Jenkins, managing director of U.K. packaging innovation consultancy ThePackHub, sits down with Pat Lindner, VP of mechatronics and sustainable packaging at Amazon, to discuss how consumer needs and sustainable solutions often overlap, and the sustainability wins the company has achieved in meeting these priorities.

October 28, 2025

Through the Line: Packaging and Processing

Private Label Brands Target Low-Barrier, Recyclable Films via Retailer Forum

Major retailers including Amazon, Walmart, CVS, and Target are uniting through the Sustainable Packaging Coalition to accelerate development of recyclable, low-barrier flexible films that can meet circularity goals without disrupting existing lines.

October 22, 2025

Unlike food packaging or products requiring oxygen or moisture barriers, some applications don’t need the complex multi-layer laminations that make many films difficult or impossible to recycle.

Mars, Mopack, and Catarina Café e Amor Design Packaging for Recyclability

See a few examples of recyclable packaging from Mars, Mopack, and Catarina Café e Amor from ThePackHub’s Innovation Zone.

October 2, 2025

This packaging, made from polypropylene (PP), is reported to reduce the carbon footprint of the previous format by 46%.

Bagging & Pouching

Servo-Controlled Bagger Handles Premade Pouches

AlliedFlex Technologies debuts the servo-controlled Nexes premade-bag filler, which fills a range of bag types and sizes up to 5-kg in simplex or duplex, with rapid changeover.

October 1, 2025

Flexible packaging

Amcor Flexibles PELV25

Amcor's AmPrima Plus Recycle-Ready recyclable flow-wrap film offers a 180-day shelf life.

September 29, 2025

Laffy Taffy Unwraps Easier-to-Open Mini Bar Packaging

Long a source of sticky frustration, Laffy Taffy’s wrappers have been reengineered for a clean, one-pull opening, just as sales surge and the brand refreshes its signature jokes.

September 15, 2025

Ferrara has rolled out new Laffy Taffy Mini Bar wrappers designed for a smoother opening experience.

Bagging & Pouching

RND Automation Strengthens Market Position through QuickPouch Acquisition

RND Automation (RND), a subsidiary of CAS Holdings (CAS), is excited to announce the successful acquisition of QuickPouch's intellectual property and assets.

September 15, 2025

ABG Launches Flex Pack Division in Partnership with Galaxy Packtech

A B Graphic International (ABG)

A B Graphic International's ABG Flex Pack, aims to consolidate its expertise in lamination and finishing into a comprehensive, end-to-end solution for the flexible packaging industry.

September 10, 2025

Bagging & Pouching

Prestone Debuts Pouch to Serve New Cohorts, Cut Plastic

A flexible, child-resistant pouch joins the iconic yellow jug, answering top-off use cases and Gen Z expectations with 60% less plastic than the legacy bottle and little secondary packaging.

September 10, 2025

Prestone’s legacy 1-gallon HDPE jug (left) remains in the market for full flush-and-fill use cases, while a new 1-quart flexible pouch (right) enters the lineup to address top-off needs. The pouch, which uses 60% less plastic, is designed to be self-standing without secondary packaging and features a child-resistant spout.

Shell Polymers and Charter Next Generation Collaborate to Deliver Certified Circular Film Solutions

The collaboration will help divert plastic waste from landfills and meet the growing demand for sustainable solutions in the packaging industry.

September 4, 2025

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Products

Columbia FLD1500-SW Floor Level Palletizer

Introducing Columbia Machine's FLD1500-SW: a Compact, High-Efficiency Palletizer with Integrated “Stack and Wrap” Technology

At PACK EXPO Las Vegas, Columbia Machine unveiled the FLD1500-SW, which features a fully integrated stretch wrapper to achieve efficient, simultaneous "stack and wrap" load building within a 90-square-foot footprint.

Semi‑Automatic Stretch Wrappers

Non-fluorinated Polymer Processing Aid