Globalization: What’s the Deal?

Buying power is an aspect of globalization that provides an opportunity if converters can partner with their offshore counterparts. “I am in the process of trying to form alliances globally very similar to the alliance we have formed in the United States, the Independent Carton Group,” says Elphick. “We do have some global customers and I am soliciting them to see if they have any privately held converters that would like to form a global consortium.”