The system is now used in production of custom foam inserts, shadow boards and protective packaging assemblies.

With its implementation of the WARDJet X-Series Waterjet Cutting System, SmartShield Packaging, a major supplier of custom ...

With the holiday season in full swing, gifts of all shapes and sizes are being shipped around the world. But all that packaging generates lots of waste, including cardboard boxes and plastic-based ...

Non-recyclable, non-biodegradable, petroleum-based EPS (expanded polystyrene) foam packaging is not eco-friendly stuff. There could soon be a greener and snazzier-looking alternative, however, in the ...

TIGARD, Ore. — A Tigard company has come up with an effective way to recycle that bulky, polystyrene foam packing material that takes up a huge amount of space in your garbage can and also in ...

Nanocellulose is a renewable nanomaterial made from plant fibers, with unique properties including lightness, very high strength and large surface area. The doctoral dissertation of Mohammad ...

Stora Enso has teamed up with German company Novapor for a pilot project using Papira, a cellulose-based foam packaging material. The initiative seeks to replace traditional foams with a wood ...

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration has awarded Rochester Institute of Technology a contract for $101,237 for a six-month study to develop new polymer foam packaging materials for ...

Thirty-one percent of McDonald’s Corp. shareholders supported a proposal from Oakland, California-based nonprofit organization As You Sow asking the company to phase out expanded polystyrene (EPS) ...

As You Sow has withdrawn a shareholder proposal with Target Corp. that asks the company to phase out use of polystyrene foam packaging in its e-commerce operations, as a result of the company’s ...

ROSEMONT, Ill.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Foam Holdings Inc. (“Foam Holdings”), a portfolio company of Wynnchurch Capital, L.P. (“Wynnchurch”), has announced the ...