Alameda County once again awarded Bay Area Green Business standing to Emerald Packaging for our sustainable business practices.

Emerald Packaging introduces an 80 gauge PLA film laminated using H.B. Fuller adhesive technology to an 80 gauge antifog sealant film. This structure allows customers to marry a film from a renewable source - corn - to traditional plastics, thereby eliminating some of the drawbacks of compostable films.

Emerald Packaging installs new 10 color Windmoeller & Hoelscher Miraflex printing press, the most modern wide web flexographic printing press on the west coast. It can print up to 150 line screen at speeds of 1600 fpm. The company also installs two new high-speed bag lines.

Emerald Packaging upgrades its two laser microperforation units so the company can offer a variety of microwave packaging options.

In early January 2011 Emerald Packaging achieves the highest AIB rating, a “Superior” classification, for warehouse cleanliness and good housekeeping systems from the American Institute of Baking (AIB).

Emerald Packaging becomes one of the largest wide web flexographic suppliers of EarthFirst PLA film to the produce industry focusing mainly on spinach packaging for Wal-Mart.

Emerald Packaging received a $5000 grant from Alameda County public agency StopWaste.org in early July. The monies will be used to buy nearly 600 PVC cores, or tubes, which will slash the use of cardboard cores in the company’s production process. Cores are used to wind up plastic rolls during the printing process. By drastically reducing the use of cardboard, the company cuts the paper used to make those cores. It also slices the amount of cardboard going into landfills. Just another example of how our company is pushing the envelope on sustainable practices.

Emerald Packaging earns Green Business Award from Alameda County under a state program that recognizes firms for their recycling, reuse and conservation programs.