Packaging
Korean food manufacturer’s group company enters Japanese flexible packaging
market with ECOBY: high-barrier mono-material OPP for packaging
YoulChon Chemical
Featured Food Packaging: paper-based, aluminum substitution, resealing,
food loss reduction, and other materials
Japan Food Packaging Association (JFPA), 5th Next Package 2022 Report
Plastic Film
Manufactured MDOPE using a blown film extrusion line mounted on an in-line
stretching machine introduced in Japan for the first time
Hayashi Sangyo
Functional Materials
‘Patching’ sheet to treat cancer
Kansai Medical University / National Institute for Materials Science
Print & Packaging
Improved productivity and reduced environmental impact with ‘label-less thermal’
RICOH / Nakamoto Packs
Compounding
Creating functional materials with intelligent compounding
STEER JAPAN
Technological Development
Microwave-based chemical recycling technology
Microwave Chemical
Recycle
‘CD Pla,’ plastic materials recycled from in-house discarded CDs and DVDs
BOOKOFF
Promoting recycling of agricultural waste plastics
KURODA INDUSTRY
Circular Economy
Utilizing beer lees for cosmetics refill packaging material
Kirin Holdings / FANCL
Mono-material labelstock made of material with the same properties as PET containers
LINTEC
Acrylic resin chemical recycling pilot facility completed
SUMITOMO CHEMICAL
UPCYCLING
Upcycle waste cosmetics into printing ink
MÅNGATA / TOPPAN / TOYO INK / KOSÉ
Printing
The latest on IJ printer for flexible packaging and fully automated cylinder-making line for gravure printing
THINK LABORATORY
Flexible packaging samples printed with IJ’s water-based pigment ink ‘LUNAJET’ exhibited at IGAS
Kao
EB offset press ‘CI Evolution’ is adopted for mono-material packaging printing
SCREEN GP Japan
Series
The Story of Polyimide Film
tale 11
The continuous evolution of flexible circuit dealing with
high frequency, Stretchability, and piezoelectric functions
Dominique K. Numakura, DKN Reserch LLC
