State of the Flexible Packaging Industry

Malcolm Cohn, director of sustainability for flexible packaging printer/converter Accredo Packaging, expands on these advantages. "Flexible packaging is in a continuous state of development and in today's highly sophisticated packaging market, the use of plastics in packaging offers lightweight, easy-opening packs with excellent moisture and gas barriers for prolonged shelf-life extension. Processing flexible films and subsequent conversion into finished packs has become particularly efficient, thereby increasing productivity and reducing waste, cost of manufacture, etc."