Drinkware

Visstun has expanded its plastic and paper cup offerings and increased its production capacity with the addition of a fifth Paper Machinery Corp. 1250P cup-forming machine.

Perhaps you've never winsomely sung "You Light Up My Life" to your favorite piece of drinkware, and more's the pity. If that's the case, pick up HumphreyLine's pint-sized Glow-in-the-Dark Sports Bottle and let your inner crooner shine.

Logomark is slated to debut its new 1-3-5 Catalog for 2011 and continue offering its popular mobile app download station.

Norwood & BIC Graphic North America announced several supplier honors awarded to the company recently.

A ban on the sale in Iowa of children's sippy cups, baby bottles, teething rings and pacifiers containing a chemical called bisphenol A would begin in about two years under a bill the Iowa Senate approved Wednesday.

Sweda Company LLC, City of Industry, Calif., announced today the hiring of Maureen Dwyer as the company's new independent regional sales representative for Michigan.

A host of industry-led projects are currently underway to discover BPA alternatives for metal packaging—but a viable option is unlikely to reach the market for several years, said a leading US trade body.

The National Institute for Environmental Health Sciences' journal released a study finding that BPA-free plastics can release chemicals with properties similar to BPA.

Bullet has selected Infor's ERP SyteLine software to streamline its business processes. The software package will allow Bullet to improve order turn-around time, respond to customer demands more quickly and save on company costs.

Some businessmen and scientists in Austin, Texas, are trying to change the way consumers think about plastic.

They say it's not enough to buy a water bottle or sandwich bag that's free of BPA, the chemical consumer groups have criticized because, at least in animals, it acts like the hormone estrogen.