PPC Honors Winners of the North American Paperboard Packaging Competition

This year, the top Paperboard Package of the Year award was presented to Graphic Packaging International (Marietta, GA) for their new package design for the 10-Count Capri Sun carton for Kraft Foods. The new fridge vendor-style design features I-Beams—an extension of the cartons end flaps that are folded in toward the carton. The new design is 20 percent lighter than the original carton, saving approx. 35,000,000 pounds of fiber annually. Moreover, a 60 percent increase in inbound pallet quantities was achieved, resulting in approx. 1,750 trucks eliminated from the inbound supply chain, thus saving 880,000 miles driven annually. A seven percent increase in outbound cases per pallet resulted in a 2.5 percent increase in finished goods on outbound trucks and a 10 percent reduction in tertiary pallet packaging materials.