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Recession's impact on packaging
Mark Spaulding, Editor in Chief, March 1, 2010How will The Great Recession change packaging? At last month's Packaging & Label Gravure Association Global meeting, printing-industry prognosticator Dr. Joe Webb offered... More -
Will M&As rebound in 2010?
Mark Spaulding Editor in Chief, January 1, 2010It's clear that 2009 was another down year in terms of packaging-industry mergers and acquisitions due to a laundry list of reasons. How much down and how various factors affected the decline make for good reading in both BMO Capital Markets' just-released report (www.bmocm.com) and Mesirow Financial's January Packaging Perspectives (www. More -
The greening of converting
Mark Spaulding, Editor in Chief, December 1, 2009To be in the package-printing and converting field today and not have a good understanding of the ins and outs of sustainability is to be hopelessly behind the curve. More -
Want breaking converting news? There's an app for that!
Mark A. Spaulding, Editor in Chief, September 1, 2009Notice something different on this page? No, despite the rapid adoption of automation by all kinds of industries, I haven't been replaced by a Blackberry...yet. More -
A pentagon of bloggists
Mark Spaulding, Editor in Chief, August 1, 2009Every so often, I think about how my father (who died back in 1965) would react if he was plopped back into our world of 2009. I imagine his interest in the technological advancements in printing that have occurred in the past 44 years (he was a litho-press operator at Western Printing, the Golden Books publisher). More -
Three questions. Your answers?
Mark Spaulding, Editor in Chief, July 1, 2009The tumultuous second year of the recession is officially half over, and while we wait for the miracle of the Economic Stimulus Package to finally take effect... More -
Greenwashing: Seven Deadly Sins
Mark Spaulding, Editor in Chief, June 1, 2009Ottawa, Canada-based TerraChoice Environmental Marketing (http:// terrachoice.com/) defines “greenwashing” as the act of misleading consumers regarding the environmental and/or sustainability practices of a company or the environmental benefits of a product or service, i.e. the packaging. More -
Greenhouse-gas emisisons: Are you ready to report them?
Mark Spaulding, Editor in Chief, May 1, 2009Converters in Arizona, California, Montana, New Mexico, Oregon, Utah and Washington must be ready to monitor and report their greenhouse-gas (GHG) emissions under the Western Climate Initiative (www.westernclimateinitiative.org). Created to identify, evaluate and implement collective and cooperative ways to reduce GHGs in the region, WCI is focusing on a market-based cap-and-trade system. More
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