1998 C. Taylor Kew Leadership Award

Change Through Leadership

Seeing a trend in the decline of set-up box operations nationwide, and not wanting to lose a significant share of his own family's business, Frain became involved with the NPA, then the National Paperboard & Paperbox Association, which was losing members due to the decline in use of set-up boxes, of which many were produced by "mom and pops" that either could not keep up with the labor and storage costs of the bulky rigid boxes, or whose children saw no future in taking over the family business.