Amcor

At Amcor we have been developing and producing responsible flexible packaging for 160 years. Our packaging innovations protect products better, lengthen shelf-life, reduce food waste, meet distribution challenges and reduce the package’s carbon footprint. With an industry-leading portfolio, Amcor Flexibles North America delivers breadth and depth of product, market and technical knowledge to customers operating in hundreds of different market segments – from the largest global players to regional and niche brands. Amcor was the first packaging company to sign a global commitment to develop all our packaging to be recyclable or reusable by 2025, to increase our use of post-consumer recycled content and drive greater recycling, worldwide. We’re trusted by our customers all over North America and the globe to deliver for them every step of the way, providing more sustainable, responsible packaging choices, helping solve their challenges today and leading industry innovation to solve the challenges of tomorrow.

Booth 29

Aura

Aura is a consultancy dedicated to helping brands and retailers manage their packaging sustainability in real time. The business brings together multi-disciplinary teams focused on delivering data-informed consulting to enable global businesses make insight-led decisions on materials, design, legislation, compliance and recyclability. Aura’s founding clients include the world’s biggest e-tailer, and the world’s biggest retailer. Core to Aura’s offer is e-halo, its proprietary packaging sustainability platform. The e-halo platform provides real-time technical and sustainability packaging data that allows clients to track progress against their current targets and future roadmaps in a transparent way. e- halo sits at the top of a tech stack that also incorporates data flow, visualization and automation to ensure the right people have access to the right information at the right time, in one place. Aura’s vision is to pioneer global change on packaging sustainability by helping businesses reduce the environmental impact of their packaging.

Booth 47

Charter Next Generation

Charter Next Generation is North America’s leading independent producer of high-performance, sustainable films used in flexible packaging and other end-use markets. Known for sustainable, innovative products and world-class manufacturing capabilities, the company’s quality and expertise are unsurpassed. Its sustainability-first mindset, and relentless pursuit of excellence, make it an ideal partner to help brand owners reach their long-term sustainability goals.

Booth 18

Impermea Materials

Best-in-class-performance barrier coatings made with zero plastic or PFAS chemicals for sustainably-minded brands.

We custom engineer powerful, long-lasting protection for your products without PFAS or plastic—using 75% less material than traditional coatings. Unlike most suppliers, we work directly with your converters and stay with you from initial lab testing through full production.

Together, we’re setting new performance standards in packaging, textiles, and healthcare—delivering results for your business and our planet.

Booth 56

Novolex

Novolex is an industry leader in sustainable paper and plastic packaging with a broad portfolio of solutions focused on source reduction, energy and water conservation, and end of life product planning and management. Some of the Novolex sustainability solutions we bring to our customers include: recycled content plastic and paper products, compostable plastic and paper products, renewable substrates, Novolex Bag-2-Bag plastic bag and film recycling program, lower impact substrates such as ourEcoCraft and Dubl Life lines of paper products, and other industry-leading innovations that minimize raw materials while maximizing performance.

Booth 49

Recycled Paperboard Alliance

The Recycled Paperboard Alliance (RPA-100%), a non-profit industry alliance, represents North Americas leading producers of 100% recycled paperboard; Graphic Packaging International, Inc., Greif Industries, PaperWorks Industries and WestRock Company. The Alliance licenses its trademarked symbol to consumer products companies and retailers including household names like Clorox, General Mills, Kelloggs, Reynolds Consumer Products, Safeway and SC Johnson. The trademarked symbol appears on over 10 billion packages made from 100% recycled paperboard every year.

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Tetra Pak

Tetra Pak is a world leading food processing and packaging solutions company. Working closely with our customers and suppliers, we provide safe, innovative and environmentally sound products that each day meet the needs of hundreds of millions of people in more than 160 countries. With more than 25,000 employees around the world, we believe in responsible industry leadership and a sustainable approach to business. Our promise, “PROTECTS WHAT’S GOOD™,” reflects our vision to commit to making food safe and available, everywhere. More information about Tetra Pak is available at www.tetrapak.com/en-us.

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Trayak

Trayak is a consulting & software solutions company with focus on product and packaging sustainability. Trayak allows companies to mainstream sustainability into their product/packaging development processes using technology solutions. At Trayak, we believe optimal decision making occurs when the principles of sustainable design are incorporated within the entire product lifecycle management (PLM) process. Trayak empowers companies to design and manufacture their entire portfolio using sustainable strategies with innovative sustainability solutions and consulting services including; EcoImpact, COMPASS, and SCORE.

Booth 26

Ahlstrom

Brook + Whittle

Brook + Whittle is a leading North American manufacturer of premium prime label solutions with highly differentiated capabilities, entrusted by some of the most well-known brands. The Company provides pressure-sensitive labels, shrink sleeves and flexible packaging, with a focus on sustainable solutions and decorative effects requiring significant technical expertise. With a heritage rooted in product development and comprehensive in-house manufacturing, the Company draws on its wide variety of specialized printing expertise, including flexographic, rotogravure, and digital. Brook + Whittle operates eight production facilities across the US. To learn more about Brook + Whittle, visit www.brookandwhittle.com

Booth 24

Circular Action Alliance

Circular Action Alliance (CAA) is a U.S. Producer Responsibility Organization (PRO) dedicated to implementing effective Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) laws for paper and packaging. As a nonprofit, producer-led organization, CAA is committed to helping producers comply with EPR laws, delivering harmonized best-in-class compliance services and to working with governments, businesses and communities to reduce waste and recycle more.

Booth 17

CJ Biomaterials

CJ Biomaterials, a business unit of global lifestyle company CJ CheilJedang, is a leading manufacturer of polyhydroxyalkanoate (PHA) biopolymers. The company’s proprietary PHACT™ PHA technology transforms carbon dioxide sequestered in plant sugars into innovative biopolymers through a unique, highly efficient fermentation process that produces both amorphous and semi-crystalline PHAs that are certified biobased, compostable in home and commercial composting conditions, and biodegradable in marine and soil environments. CJ Biomaterials partners with brands across packaging, consumer goods, food service, nonwovens, and other industries to develop new materials and applications that reduce environmental impact while meeting rigorous performance standards. With headquarters in Woburn, MA, USA and manufacturing facilities strategically positioned to serve global markets, CJ Biomaterials is committed to scaling sustainable material solutions that accelerate the transition to a circular bioeconomy.

Booth 22

Delfort Group

We are global leaders of innovation in the development, manufacturing and distribution of sustainable specialty paper.

It’s a fact: you use delfort products every day. When you unpack a hamburger at a fast food restaurant, read the leaflets of your healthcare products, or unwrap a luxury purchase, there is a good chance that you are holding a product made by us. The numerous applications of our functional and specialty papers are a fixture in daily life. Some of them are even unseen, like our range of electrical insulation papers.

If you are interested in challenging projects in an international environment, then delfort is the company for you. We are a team of more than 3,200 employees who run subsidiaries in Europe, Asia and the Americas. Our people come from diverse backgrounds across the world, and take pride in the mix of cultures, experience and perspectives that come with being part of an international family.

We stand for empathy, creativity, performance and collaboration. We are pioneers striking new paths, pressing forward in the spirit of innovation. Our understanding of each player in our diverse group builds the foundation of collaboration in its purest form. The results are out of this world! Join us!

Booth 14

Domtar

Domtar is a leading, privately held manufacturer of diversified forest products, with a workforce of about 14,000 employees in more than 60 locations across North America. The company produces pulp, paper, packaging, tissue, lumber, and other wood products. Formerly known as the Paper Excellence Group, Domtar is comprised of legacy businesses Paper Excellence, Domtar, and Resolute Forest Products. Domtar prides itself on operational excellence, delivering sustainable, high-quality, and innovative products to meet and exceed customer needs globally. The company is committed to turning sustainable wood fiber into everyday essential products. Domtar’s principal executive office is in Fort Mill, South Carolina. For more information, visit www.domtar.com.

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Eastman

Founded in 1920, Eastman is a global specialty materials company that produces a broad range of products found in items people use every day. With the purpose of enhancing the quality of life in a material way, Eastman works with customers to deliver innovative products and solutions while maintaining a commitment to safety and sustainability. The company’s innovation-driven growth model takes advantage of world-class technology platforms, deep customer engagement, and differentiated application development to grow its leading positions in attractive end-markets such as transportation, building and construction, and consumables. As a globally inclusive and diverse company, Eastman employs approximately 14,500 people around the world and serves customers in more than 100 countries. The company had 2020 revenues of approximately $8.5 billion and is headquartered in Kingsport, Tennessee, USA.

About Eastman in the circular economy: In 2019, Eastman became the first company to begin commercial-scale chemical recycling for a broad set of waste plastics that would otherwise be landfilled or, worse, wind up in the environment. Eastman’s Advanced Circular Recycling technologies will be able to process hard-to-recycling mixed plastic waste—including polyesters, polypropylene, polyethylene, and polystyrene—derived from a variety of sources, including single-use plastics, textiles, and carpet. These molecular recycling technologies provide a true circular solution, allowing them to be reused repeatedly.

Flexible Packaging Association

The Flexible Packaging Association is the voice of the U.S. manufacturers of flexible packaging and their suppliers. The association’s mission is connecting, advancing, and leading the flexible packaging industry. Flexible packaging represents over $42 billion in annual sales in the U.S. and is the second largest and one of the fastest growing segments of the packaging industry. Flexible packaging is produced from paper, plastic, film, aluminum foil, or any combination of those materials, and includes bags, pouches, labels, liners, wraps, rollstock, and other flexible products. Learn more at flexpack.org.

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Fresh-Lock by Presto (Reynolds)

About Fresh-Lock® closures

Fresh-Lock® closures for flexible packaging reclosability solutions are designed and produced by Presto Products, a business of Reynolds Consumer Products. The Fresh-Lock team is behind many groundbreaking zipper and slider solutions, including innovative and sustainable closures within its 8000 series such as the brand’s first compostable closure: Fresh-Lock® zipper style 8015.

What We Do

We don’t just make flexible packaging closures; we create innovate solutions to meet the sustainable and safe reclosable packaging needs within the flexibles industry today with an eye on the future. Reliable packaging isn’t enough anymore. Brands need to answer the call to improve sustainability efforts by changing their approach to product packaging.

Our team’s commitment to supporting a circular economy has led to innovation within the Fresh-Lock® 8000 Series of sustainable closures:

• Our first compostable closure in the 8000 series, Fresh-Lock® zipper style 8015 is made with 100% certified compostable resins (zipper certification pending) and is FDA approved for food contact applications.

• Fresh-Lock® zipper style 8425 is a versatile 10mm closure was designed to meet challenges associated with mono-layer recyclable films, ink splitting associated with digital inks, and dry, particle and granular product applications.

• Additional new additions to the 8000 series products include Fresh-Lock® Zipper Top, Fresh-Lock® Triple-Lock zippers and Fresh-Lock® Child-Resistant zipper, the gold standard in child-resistant flexible packaging. These closures offer recyclability and enhanced package reclosability.

Our Packaging Solutions

Key packaging solutions from Fresh-Lock include thermoform zippers, sensory zippers, contaminant resistant zippers, ergonomic sliders, particle plow sliders, and more.

What you can expect from us is a value-added customer service, full tech support, a true commitment to sustainability, and an expert sales team. And of course, press-to-close zipper and track & slider reclosable solutions that deliver engaging brand experiences for consumers while shaping market trends.

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Henkel

Henkel operates globally with a well-balanced and diversified portfolio. The company holds leading positions in both industrial and consumer businesses through its two business units, thanks to strong brands, innovations and technologies. Founded in 1876, Henkel looks back on almost 150 years of success. Henkel’s preferred shares are listed in the German stock index DAX. The DAX-40 company has its headquarters in Düsseldorf, Germany. Henkel employs around 47,000 people worldwide, around 83 percent of whom work outside of Germany. As a recognized leader in sustainability, Henkel holds top positions in many international ratings and rankings.

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Lorax EPI

Lorax EPI provide extended producer responsibility reporting, legislative analysis and bespoke consulting services to help companies navigate the global environmental compliance landscape. Our software is a comprehensive solution for EPR, tax and voluntary commitments, ensuring your business remains compliant with all applicable regulations. We have extensive knowledge and experience across sectors and regions, and can offer customized solutions to suit your specific needs and goals.

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Peel Plastics Products Ltd.

Peel Plastic Products Ltd. has been a proud, recognized leader in flexible packaging solutions and process innovation for over 40 years. At Peel Plastics, we create custom packaging solutions to complement your brand. Our solutions are unique, industry relevant and brand specific. We house all of our print, lamination and converting capabilities in our two North American locations, which gives us a clear advantage at meeting otherwise challenging deadlines. With our commitment to innovation and process standards, we are second to none – achieving high-quality, high-definition flexographic print rivaling that of rotogravure. With our focus on understanding your needs, industry, marketing and merchandising strategies, and our leadership position in product and process innovation, we create a package solution tailored specifically to your brand. And then we back up our product with a team of industry experts. We know today’s consumers are looking for convenience and quality, which means your brand requires improved merchandising, value and service, and our line of flexible pouches provides that edge. We are committed to be the most responsive supply partner, a recognized leader in product and process innovation, and the overall best value provider of flexible packaging solutions.

Booth 7

PepsiCo

PepsiCo products are enjoyed by consumers more than one billion times a day in more than 200 countries and territories around the world. PepsiCo generated nearly $92 billion in net revenue in 2024, driven by a complementary drinks and convenient foods portfolio that includes Lay’s, Doritos, Cheetos, Gatorade, Pepsi-Cola, Mountain Dew, Quaker and SodaStream. PepsiCo’s product portfolio includes a wide range of enjoyable foods and drinks, including many iconic brands that generate more than $1 billion each in estimated annual retail sales.

Guiding PepsiCo is our vision to Be the Global Leader in Drinks and Convenient Foods by Winning with pep+ (PepsiCo Positive). pep+ is our strategic end-to-end transformation that places sustainability at the center of our business strategy, seeking to drive growth and build a stronger, more resilient future for PepsiCo and the communities where we operate. For more information, visit www.pepsico.com.

Pinnacle Polymers

At Pinnacle Polymers, low-carbon polypropylene is what we do. As a producer of polypropylene, our goal is to improve the lives of everyone our product touches with our homopolymer, impact copolymer and random copolymer. Long-term partnerships and customer intimacy are paramount. In return, we guarantee our clients direct lines of communication with decision-makers, vast expertise and a real prospect of co-development.

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Plastic Ingenuity

Plastic Ingenuity creates sustainable and circular custom packaging solutions for the food, healthcare, and consumer goods industries.

Booth 23

Pregis

Pregis LLC is a global, customer-driven solutions provider of innovative packaging materials, equipment systems and surface protection. As a material neutral company, we work with customers to find the right packaging solution to solve their business challenges. Core to the Pregis Purpose, preserving and protecting the environment is who we are and what we do. Pregis is committed to protecting our customers’ products, developing more sustainable solutions, reducing use of virgin materials, and “inspyring” people and communities to think and act differently.  Pregis serves a wide variety of consumer and industrial market segments including food, pharmaceutical, healthcare, medical devices, agricultural, e-commerce, retail, automotive, transportation, furniture, electronics, building, construction, and military/aerospace. For more information: www.pregis.com.

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Printpack

Printpack develops innovative packaging solutions that deliver a distinct advantage at the shelf, strengthen brand identity in the minds of consumers and help brand owners increase speed-to- market. Our vast portfolio of packaging solutions along with our technical and commercial expertise in materials science and barrier solutions, gives brand owners peace of mind, enhances product protection, and increases sales at the shelf. The principle function of packaging is to safeguard a brand’s investment and its image by protecting the product from any type of contamination or damage. If a product is not consistent with expectations, consumer loyalty is at stake. Printpack’s engineers are experts in a wide variety of product categories, utilizing the latest films and converting processes to make certain your product’s specific protection needs are exceeded. We develop and employ cutting-edge packaging technologies and processes to ensure ample protection throughout the usage cycle. Every product has unique packaging needs and brands can improve customer retention by utilizing features that enrich and simplify the consumer experience. Printpack’s engineering team is skilled in the art of making packages that are easier to use – employing reclosable solutions, peelable materials, tear-optimized materials, and more. Our collaborative development and innovation process helps ensure a positive consumer experience throughout the entire usage cycle, promoting repeat purchases and supporting overall brand loyalty.

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ProAmpac

ProAmpac is a leading global flexible packaging company with a comprehensive product offering, providing creative packaging solutions, industry-leading customer service and award-winning innovation to a diverse global marketplace. ProAmpac’s approach to sustainability – ProActive Sustainability® – provides innovative sustainable flexible packaging products to help our customers achieve their sustainability goals. We are guided in our work by four core values that are the basis for our success: Integrity, Intensity, Innovation, and Involvement. Cincinnati-based ProAmpac is owned by Pritzker Private Capital along with management and co-investors. For more information, visit ProAmpac.com or contact Media@ProAmpac.com

Booth 28

RecycleMe

RecycleMe is a consulting company focused on the circular economy. Its team of sustainability and recycling experts are relied upon by some of the world’s leading brands to help them achieve the most sustainable product packaging for their customers. In doing so, brands are also guaranteed to meet the highest standards in extended producer responsibility (EPR) requirements around the world. RecycleMe services extend across sustainability, circular economy and stewardship spectrums, and include strategic EPR consulting, reporting and compliance services as well as policy monitoring for clients in the private sector, government, and industry associations.

Booth 31

SGS – Integrated Paper Services

SGS – IPS Testing serves as an independent testing laboratory for the paper, corrugated, food and packaging, nonwovens, personal care products, and medical supply industries. Key skills include: analytical and physical testing, fiber science and microscopy, defect analysis, quality control, reverse engineering, regulatory, transit, recyclability and sustainability, mannequin, and flushability testing.

Booth 48

Shorr Packaging

Shorr Packaging is an industry-leading distributor of packaging products, equipment and services. We represent the best-known packaging product manufacturers and brands in the industry and are one of the largest independent packaging distributors in the nation. Founded in 1922, we are an established, employee-owned company with a long history and success record, all attributed to one simple principle – listen to the customer. With expertise in warehousing, logistics, transportation and more, Shorr has an unmatched ability to optimize supply chains, streamline processes, innovate packaging operations and maximize ROI. Shorr is actively engaged in promoting sustainability to reduce both Shorr’s environmental impact and that of our customers. We go beyond providing innovative packaging solutions and advocate for sustainable business practices and foster environmental consciousness and stewardship.

Booth 27

SmartSolve

SmartSolve is a Zero Waste flexible packaging technology company with a bold vision: to make packaging no longer trash. Our portfolio includes water-soluble paper, label, and pouch materials that help brands reduce waste and elevate their sustainability story. Celebrating our 10-year anniversary, we’re marking this milestone with the launch of the world’s first plastic free, 100% bio based, and flushable packaging substrate, a breakthrough that sets a new standard for sustainable packaging innovation.

Sonoco

Founded in 1899, Sonoco is a global provider of consumer, industrial, healthcare and protective packaging. With annualized net sales of approximately $5.5 billion, the Company has approximately 19,000 employees working in more than 300 operations in 34 countries, serving some of the world’s best-known brands in some 85 nations. Sonoco is committed to creating sustainable products, services and programs for our customers, employees and communities that support our corporate purpose of Better Packaging. Better Life. The Company was listed as one of Fortune’s World’s Most Admired Companies for 2021 as well as Barron’s 100 Most Sustainable Companies for the third-consecutive year.

Booth 16

Stora Enso

We are the renewable materials company.

Part of the global bioeconomy, Stora Enso is a leading provider of renewable products in packaging, biomaterials and wooden construction, and one of the largest private forest owners in the world.

The Packaging Materials division is a global leader and expert in circular packaging, providing premium packaging materials based on fresh and recycled fiber. Stora Enso helps customers reduce fossil-based materials with renewable and recyclable alternatives for their food, beverage, and transport packaging, as well as a wide selection of base boards and barrier coatings.

Booth 35

Sustana

Sustana is dedicated to finding new ways of putting clean materials within more everyday paper products—sustainably, responsibly, and meaningfully. We are an industry-leading producer of quality fiber-based products and services built on a solid commitment to sustainability and continuous improvement. From recovery to fiber to paper production, Sustana produces the clean materials used in coffee cups, food packaging, your favorite book, and so much more. At Sustana, creating real change starts from within. Learn more about how our products and manufacturing practices support the circular economy at www.sustanasolutions.com .

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Tosca

Tosca is a global leader in reusable plastic packaging and pooling solutions, purpose-built to eliminate waste and improve performance in food, labor, and transportation while delivering smarter performance at every turn.

Booth 19

TotalEnergies

TotalEnergies develops, produces, and commercializes polymers: polypropylene, polystyrene, their recycled equivalents, and biopolymers in the US.  TotalEnergies is committed to the development of a circular economy for plastics.  The RE:clic product line is fully aligned with the Company’s ambition to produce 1 million tons of circular polymers a year by 2030.

RE:use polymers contain recycled plastics obtained through a mechanical recycling process.  They are derived from post-consumer and post-industrial plastic wastes.

RE:build polymers are produced through an advanced recycling process that converts plastic waste into circular feedstock.  Our US manufacturing polymer sites and refinery are ISCC+ certified.

RE:newable polymers are derived from bio-based products.

Booth 39

UPM Specialty Papers

UPM Specialty Papers has over 40 years of experience producing high-performance, transformative papers for packaging and labelling. In APAC, we also offer office and graphic papers. Our global team of 2,000 experts and mills in China, Finland and Germany serve customers consistently and reliably around the world. UPM Specialty Papers is part of material solutions company UPM.

Find more information on upmspecialtypapers.com and follow UPM Specialty Papers on LinkedIn.

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WIST – UWSP

The Wisconsin Institute for Sustainable Technology (WIST) at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point operates business-facing laboratories dedicated to providing sustainable solutions to regional and national partners. We’ve spent the past 15 years exploring solutions and providing opportunities to our clients, helping them pursue sustainable goals and develop eco-friendly practices that support the evolving marketplace and meet consumer demands. WIST’s compostability and recyclability testing labs provide the services necessary for you to confidently meet your sustainable packaging goals. WIST Compostability Testing Laboratory is ISO 17025 certified, and WIST is a partner laboratory of the How2Recycle program for OCC-E paper testing.

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