Accredo Packaging Expands Lone Star Headquarters BY GREG KISHBAUGH Supported by Sugar Land Economic Development (SLOED), flexible packaging manufacturer Accredo Packaging, Inc., has completed its fourth expansion at its Sugar Land, Texas, headquarters, representing a $10 million investment. This expansion added 83,000 square feet of office space to the company’s 650,000-square-foot LEED-certified campus, which is 100 percent powered by wind energy. The project added 30 jobs, and the company has pledged to main- tain at least 525 jobs in Sugar Land through 2031.
FINAT Details European Label Forum 2024
The FINAT European Label Forum 2024 will be held on May 22-24, 2024, at the Divani Caravel hotel in Athens, Greece. This year’s event is divided into five ses- sions, focussing on the general business cli- mate, developments along the supply chain, sustainability, innovation, and label leadership.
New this year is the Young Professionals workshop that will be hosted on Wednes- day morning by Laura Bas, before the Fo- rum officially starts. Bas is an award-winning changemaker and Generation Z expert. She has presented for the United Nations and is Youth Ambassador for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, consulting hundreds of young people worldwide. With her successful TikTok & Ins- tagram channel ‘delaurabasboost’ she week-
Opened in 2009, Accredo Packaging is the first and only flexible packaging manufacturing facility in North America with LEED Silver certification, according to the compay. Previous expansions took place in 2013 and 2021, and now, in 2024, the company has more than tri- pled in size. As a manufacturer of packaging for a diverse range of grocery items – including snacks, confectionery, baked and frozen foods, pet food and treats, and bottled water film – Accredo Packaging’s sustainability practices are incorporated throughout its operations. Packaging op- tions include recyclable, compostable, and sustainably produced al- ternatives, surpassing environmental standards set by conventional products. . SLOED has helped facilitate the company’s several expansions, working with its leadership and the City of Sugar Land on various tax abatement agreements, including a LEED tax abatement incentive to encourage green development.
ly provides hundreds of thousands of Gen Z’ers with career advice. Guy Verhofstadt has been named as a keynote speaker, Born in Dender- monde, Belgium in 1953, Guy Verhofstadt has
carved a distinguished career as a Belgian pol- itician and advocate for a stronger, more unit- ed European Union. As former Belgian Prime Minister, Verhofstadt was appointed as Chair CONTINUED ON PAGE 44 Guy Verhofstadt
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