Pregis® announced today that it's Grand Rapids, MI facility received the International Sustainability and Carbon Certification (ISCC) PLUS, a globally recognized system for the sustainability certification of recycled and bio-based materials in support of its Performance Flexibles solution offering. The ISCC PLUS certification includes the mass balance chain of custody option, providing traceability along the supply chain. This third-party certification enables Pregis to produce solutions that are classified as circular, bio-circular, and/or bio-base. Becoming ISCC PLUS certified highlights our commitment to supporting customers in enabling a circular economy. The company is able to engineer its Pregis Performance Flexibles Renew™ Series film solutions with these bio-certified materials, meeting the growing demand for flexible packaging options that align with customers’ sustainability and performance goals. Pregis applies responsible sourcing and advanced recycling to custom engineer films that are setting the sustainability standards withing the industry.

Ahlstrom expands its offering for the medical industry by introducing Reliance® Fusion, a next-generation simultaneous sterilization wrap that helps increase efficiency in the sterilization of surgical equipment trays at hospitals. Sterilization wraps are extensively used in healthcare facilities worldwide to help maintain the sterility of surgical instruments. Ahlstrom single-use sterilization wraps help to prevent microorganisms (bacteria, viruses, spores) from easily gaining access to the tray contents, allow sterilization, provide physical protection, and maintain sterility of surgical instruments up to the point of use. They thus play a crucial role in infection prevention and patients’ safety. The sterilization process is often time-consuming, requires the use of expensive processing aids such as tray liners, and involves longer drying cycles and stocking multiple weights of sterilization wrap to ensure all moisture has been eliminated.

“Our industry has changed more in the past two years than in the past 32 that I’ve worked in packaging,” GreenBlue Executive Director Paul Nowak said during SPC Advance 2025.  Sustainable packaging professionals aren’t just witnessing this transformation, they’re architecting it. At SPC Advance, we saw a wealth of ways — from composting access data to recycled content claim research — that these experts are using to move us closer to a world where packaging systems help, don’t hurt, human and environmental health. During three days of sessions, socials, and workshops, one thing became abundantly clear: The sustainable packaging industry is already mobilized. Now, the question becomes: How can we use this momentum to get it right?  Is corporate sustainability dead? Andrew Winston, author of Net Positive, would say no. Despite headlines of companies hiding or nixing their sustainability goals, the trends moving sustainable packaging forward are bigger than reactionary politics, he said at SPC Advance. “The reason companies are responding to climate change is because climate change is happening.”  Change happens slowly at first, and then, seemingly suddenly, it’s exponential. To demonstrate this, he cited two very different technologies: CD-ROMs and clean energy. “We used to all have CDs, and then suddenly overnight, everything was digitized… Now, clean tech is growing exponentially, and the fundamental reason is that it’s cheaper.”