ePac Flexible Packaging Announces Expansion into Seoul, South Korea

Highlights: • For the first quarter 2018, the Company recorded earnings from continuing operations of $0.59 per share (diluted). This was on the upper end of management guidance of $0.55 to $0.60 per share. • Net sales were $1.7 billion, an increase of nearly 8 percent compared to the prior year, due to higher prices and favorable currency translation. Total glass container shipments in the first quarter of 2018 were comparable to the prior year quarter, with low-single-digit gains reported in the Americas. • Earnings from continuing operations before income taxes were $135 million, compared with $73 million in the prior year, driven by solid operational performance and non-recurrence of certain expenses in the prior year. Click Read More below for additional information.

Cardboard is one of the most widely recycled materials in the world. This guide will showcase the seven key steps of how cardboard is recycled, showing the journey of cardboard from waste collection, right through to its new life. Recycling cardboard helps protect the environment and saves valuable resources from landfill. Understanding the recycling process is key to ensuring that cardboard is stored and collected correctly, reducing contamination, and helping to enable a circular economy. Our Recycling, Paper and Packaging divisions at DS Smith work together to achieve this every day. Step 1: Cardboard sorting and storage. Step 2: Managing the quality of cardboard at the recycling facility. Step 3: Transportation to paper mills. Step 4: Processing the cardboard bales to pulp. Step 5: Making the paper. Step 6: Creating the paper reels. Step 7: Creating the cardboard.

Leading metal packaging manufacturer Crown Holdings, Inc. has announced collaboration with Velox Ltd. (www.velox-digital.com), an innovative developer and manufacturer of direct-to-shape digital decoration solutions, to provide beverage brands with game-changing digital decoration technology for both straight wall and necked aluminum cans. Crown and Velox brought together their expertise to unlock new possibilities for major brands wishing to increase product offerings, as well as smaller producers taking advantage of the benefits of fully recyclable beverage cans. The technology and solution deliver market firsts and create greater brand design options with running speeds over five times faster than existing digital solutions and proprietary features, including the ability to print up to 14 simultaneous colors and embellishments such as gloss, matte and embossing on nearly the entire surface area of the can. Crown and Velox recognize a growing global demand from beverage brands for more innovative digital decoration solutions. Brands can now take advantage of the technology and solutions' myriad benefits, particularly execution of lower production volumes that do not meet the constraints of traditional printing, such as small-batch varieties, short-run seasonal and promotional products or multipacks containing a variety of SKUs. The Velox technology and solutions also provide a photorealistic quality and wider color gamut for graphics, the ability to quickly produce an accurate print proof of a package and, in the case of smaller brands, improved sustainability over traditional plastic shrink wrap and labels that significantly hinder the aluminum can recycling process.