CMM Selects Neil Burns as Converter of the Year

Considered one of the industry’s most prestigious honors, the Converter of the Year award is presented biennially to a converter, supplier, educator, or consultant who has significantly advanced converting technology, business practices, industry education, or standards development.

Recognized for his many accomplishments in growing a variety of converting businesses throughout Europe, Burns is the 10th recipient in a list of distinguished honorees who have won this prestigious award during the last 20 years. He has spent close to 25 years within the converting business, and 22 of those years have been with the same organization. After a brief stint at BXL Plastics in South Yorkshire UK, Burns moved to Reed Plastic Packaging, part of the Reed International Group based in Kent, UK. There he worked in operations, general management, and sales within the blown film, extrusion coating, and paper bag businesses before taking over as managing director of Medway Plastics extrusion coating operation. During this time the business was acquired by NCB, then AssiDomän (both Swedish papermaking and packaging companies), and then by Frantschach Packaging, which became Mondi Packaging.