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Stressed Asian woman working at home

WORKFORCE MATTERS

Keeping Your Remote Workforce from Burning Out

Remote workers are offsite, but research shows that they’re also going out of their minds with the workload.

David Fowler

PEOPLE IN PACKAGING

Meet Dave Fowler

This next installment of our series where we meet people in the industry interviews Web Industries’ David Fowler.

FillPak Paper

LONG-TERM SHIFTS

One Year Later: How the COVID-19 Pandemic Continues to Drive Long-term Shifts in Packaging Strategies

Several shifts perpetuated by the pandemic now represent long-term changes that will ultimately serve to benefit the manufacturing and packaging industries.

KitKat soft packaging

KITKAT WRAPPER

Advanced Recycling and Collaboration Produces ‘Soft Wrapper’ Packaging for Nestlé

A collaborative effort in Australia has produced a new type of recycled wrapper for Nestlé’s KitKat that relies on an advanced recycling technology called Cat-HTR.

DIC Graphics’ new water-based ink

INK DEVELOPMENTS

Toyo Ink Reveals Recycling Solution and Suntory Adopts Water-based Inks

Toyo Ink is meeting 2025 sustainability mandates with technology that removes solvent-based inks, while water-based flexographic inks hit the mark for Suntory via DIC Graphics.

Coming Together Video Poster

COMING TOGETHER

Coming Together to Serve Better

Robert O’Connor and Ken Moir share why they believed now was the time for their companies to combine and how they see it impacting the industry.

Departments

Barley packaging

FLEXIBLE BY DESIGN

Corona Launches Sustainable Barley Beer Pack

The new technology repurposes surplus barley straw into six-pack packaging material in a circular process.

On the Cover

There are likely numerous ways to help remote workers to cope, but understanding that they may feel burned out is the first step.

Illustration by gobyg / DigitalVision Vectors via Getty Images

May 2021 // flexpackmag.com