Simon Says: Unpacking Pack Expo

The industry is preparing for a sustainable future and looks to paper packaging as an enabler.

Simon digs into the origins of the superstitious number 13 and how our customers can improve their own luck.

During a trip to visit family in Australia, our Head of Global Marketing, Resins for Paper, noticed some interesting packaging trends.

As sustainable packaging continues to be a global market challenge, our leading solutions were on full display during the recent Interpack show in Europe.

In an industry with its own traditions and history, Joncryl® products help support the industry’s past and future.

As the packaging industry feels increasing pressure to meet their 2025 sustainability commitments, demand for recycled content and more circularity in packaging is set to drive up the value of more recyclable substrates.

After years of uncertainty and navigating uncharted waters, the printing and packaging space is embracing sustainability across its value chain and has its sights set firmly on the future.

Show off your knowledge of recycling paper and paperboard packaging facts in this quiz

Your paper coffee cup may seem like it's recyclable, but chances are it's not. It's an issue that paper cup manufacturers have struggled with for decades. Until now

Create repulpable and recyclable takeout cups and paper packaging with this sustainable alternative to extruded polyethylene liquid barriers

A water-based polymer makes it possible to create recyclable paper packaging with the performance you expect in food service

Packaging market grows as graphical sector continues to face challenges

The versatile emulsion delivers performance and aesthetics to a wide range of applications

JONCRYL LMVs are industry mainstays for their ability to bring stability and clean printing to inks

The latest addition to the JONCRYL® HPD Line combines strong color strength with Swiss Ordinance List compliance

Food needs to be delivered in packaging; packaging that needs to do an effective job of containing and protecting not only your thai curry or neopolitan pizza but also the carrier, vehicle, and countertop or table on which it’s placed.

A water-based emulsion provides an effective, more sustainable alternative to fluorochemical-based food packaging solutions

Deep history paves the way for future innovations in sustainable resins and emulsions

As we strive to maintain the health and wellbeing of ourselves and each other, our teams are also working hard to ensure business continuity and minimize the overall impact to business operations.

“Just Ship It!” is what I like to envision them yelling as they slapped the label on the box; the beginning of the package’s journey to my door.

Sustainability takes commitment and it takes collaboration. As we move forward with our current and future offerings, we’ll continue to partner along the value chain to enable everyone to deliver on their lofty sustainable packaging targets.

Over the course of the next decade we’ll see a lot of new innovations in the way we order, receive, and consume products and their packaging, just as that landscape has certainly morphed over the last decade. 

Two packaging experts chat about sustainability and share ways to formulate inks with more bio-renewable content

Consumers have plenty of options when it comes to buying sustainably, but how do they choose the most eco-friendly products and identify genuine claims?

How consumer culture shapes the paper and paperboard packaging industry

In the face of staggering food waste statistics, Simon discusses how food and beverage companies can lessen their environmental footprint with sustainable packaging

Simon reflects on Amazon's Prime Day 2019 and the impact of e-commerce sales on printing and packaging

Simon muses on some sustainability mishaps in the packaging industry (and how we can do better)

As brands phase out non-recyclable substrates, sustainable paper-based folding carton and corrugated packaging move in to fill the gaps

BASF’s Simon Foster dishes on the latest print and packaging news

Q&A: Simon Foster on his email series, Simon Says, and the latest news in printing and packaging

Filter through a line of Joncryl resins and emulsions to optimize your formulations

An introductory Q&A with Product Development Scientist Justin Bordley.

Here's what Peter Hayes learned from more than 30 years in the paper coatings and packaging industry

Tireless testing pushes performance progress

In the highly competitive beer industry, brewers need their packaging to do more than stand out on the shelf