Consumables-Substrates - Paperboard

Steve Voorhees, CEO of WestRock, received the 2016 Customer Executive of the Year Award from ASPI, which is the association's highest honor.

PaperWorks Industries has announced ClubStak, a paper-based packaging solution featuring an outer carton made from 100% coated recycled paperboard and an internal liner made with custom-selected, paper-based material to address specific snack food needs.

TMI has introduced its new model 83-76 Elmendorf Tear Tester featuring an improved electronic design and a new large touch screen display. The new unit features a 7˝ touch screen, which provides easy input of test parameters and allows the user to quickly select instrument settings based on industry standards.

Iggesund Paperboard is expanding distribution in the United States, making its flagship product, Invercote, available coast to coast. Increasing interest in Invercote’s unique properties from brand owners on the West Coast, and some key new business acquisitions made expanding west a natural next step.

Following on the recent launch of the new Neenah Packaging website, Neenah Packaging has released the first swatchbooks for its Neenah Box Wrap and Neenah Folding Board.

Midland Paper reports that its Digital Edge Coated 1 Side (C1S) and Coated 2 Side (C2S) Board program for HP Indigo Technology has been a resounding success in 2014. "The most satisfying feedback we have received from our customers thus far is the superior ink adhesion of this product," said Mike Ratcliff of Midland Paper.

Paperboard raises its value-added appeal with new and underused printing techniques. By Jessica Millward, Associate Editor THERE WERE NO easy winners in pP's Excellence Awards competition, but the "Folding Carton" categories have been the toughest races to call in the last few judgings. With a growing pool of high-end products demanding value-added packaging, a new breed of paperboard materials has emerged to support expanding printing techniques. White noise Today's paperboard materials have a dual mission: to enable the best possible aesthetic appearance, and to be durable throughout the post-press process. "As a result, packaging professionals are … specifying higher-quality paperboards

Tag/paperboard suppliers and converters air game plans for managing printing differences among surfaces, calipers and chemistries. By Susan Friedman Put the same tag or paperboard substrate through several different print processes, and the only thing that's likely to change is image quality. The most pronounced differences in the performance of these substrates on-press arise across the categories of surface, thickness and formulation. Coatings, synthetics lead tag issues A high degree of performance diversity can be found between coated anduncoated tag stocks, explains Glen Payton, Product Manager, Fraser Papers. "Coated tag stocks are best used for very high quality four-color process printing with line screens