Avery Dennison

Package and label printers have a new tool to help brand owners enhance packaging sustainability. The USDA has validated the biobased content of Avery Dennison’s hot melt adhesive and given the material BioPreferred Certification.

Avery Dennison offers security technologies to help converters create tamper-resistant packaging and solutions for brand owners.

Avery Dennison Label and Packaging Materials has added two innovations to its flexible packaging offering for narrow web converters. These include the new ChemControl portfolio and an expanded Stickpak portfolio.

Avery Dennison's booth at Labelexpo will help converters discover opportunities for them to spur growth. The booth will feature four zones, including the Productivity Zone, the Shelf Appeal Zone, the Smart Solutions Zone and the Sustainability and Compliance Zone.

Avery Dennison has expanded its CleanFlake Portfolio, offering a solution for the pressure-sensitive market to meet PET Recycling Compatibility. CleanFlake Technology improves the recyclability of PET bottles.

Vogue International, the makers of OGX hair care products, collaborated with WS Packaging Group and Avery Dennison to reduce the environmental impacts of pressure-sensitive labels on packaging.

Competition was stiff among top high school performers from across North America in the Phoenix Challenge High School Flexo Competition. A total of 19 teams participated, a total which has grown every year since the Phoenix Challenge high school program began in 1998.

Avery Dennison Corporation has named Anne L. Bramman as senior vice president and CFO. As CFO, Bramman will lead the company’s finance function, including audit, financial reporting, investor relations, planning and analysis, tax and treasury. She will also oversee information technology. Bramman succeeds Mitchell R. Butier, who was recently named Avery Dennison president and COO.

L'Oreal and Avery Dennison have joined forces to create more environmentally friendly labels. The collaboration targets sustainability issues at each point of the label lifecycle. 

Standup pouches get the glamour and a lot of shelf space, but stick packs, those long, skinny containers of everything from yogurt to nutraceutical potions to table-top packets of sweeteners are becoming hot properties in flexible packaging.