Green Bay Packaging

Industry news on the package printing industry including Harper Corp. of America, Goss International, Imagine! Print Solutions, KBA, Amcor, FLEXcon, Colordyne Technologies, Rotoflex, Romaco, Green Bay Packaging, X-Rite, CTI, and Maxcess.

Green Bay Packaging (GBP) Wisconsin operations were recognized as a Green Master for the fifth consecutive year at the seventh Wisconsin Sustainable Business Council Annual Conference.

Midland and Great Lakes Packaging are manufacturers and distributors of corrugated packaging, point-of-purchase displays and specialty packaging products. They provide products for food and beverage and industrial customers, said Beth Hrubesky, marketing and communication manager for Green Bay Packaging.

Each company has one production plant. Combined, they add 230 full-time employees to Green Bay Packaging’s national workforce of just more than 3,000 employees. Green Bay Packaging employs a little more than 1,000 people in Brown County. Hrubesky said the acquired plants will remain open and function like Green Bay Packaging’s other divisions.

TLMI’s L.I.F.E. Certification program's newly certified plants include Loparex’s Eden, North Carolina facility and Green Bay Packaging’s Riverside, MI, Rancho Cucamonga, CA and Brooklyn Center, MN facilities.

Four of TLMI's member company facilities have achieved L.I.F.E. (Label Initiative for the Environment) Certifications. The program’s newly certified plants include Sussex, WI-based Lauterbach Group; Avery Dennison’s Peachtree City, GA division; and Green Bay Packaging’s Winchester, VA and Green Bay, WI facilities. The L.I.F.E. program was developed in order to assist TLMI members to find cost-effective ways to reduce their companies’ environmental footprint.

Sustainability in package printing news, featuring Twin Rivers Paper Co., Kodak and TLMI.

Green Bay Packaging, a Wisconsin, USA-based manufacturer of pressure-sensitive adhesive labelstock and paperboard packaging materials, is expanding its labelstock slitting capacity with the order of a 2,100mm (82in) wide Atlas OCS-2 center-surface slitter rewinder. The machine will be installed later this year. ‘We were particularly impressed with the level of service and attention to detail that Atlas afforded us during our decision making process,’ explained Paul Hasemeyer, senior vice president at Green Bay Packaging. ‘We knew their track record was good in the labelstock business and they certainly came up with the best and most cost-effective solution to meet

Paper Converting Machine Company (PCMC) has announced plans to host the Harper Road Show 2011 on March 30 at its global headquarters in Green Bay. Visitors will see both narrow inline and wide web CI machines in one location and learn from the experts how to make sure their operation runs as efficiently and competitively as possible.

When new technology can be acquired to improve product quality, increase productivity, and offer additional cost reductions with an attractive return on investment (ROI) it doesn't take long for a company to incorporate it into its operation. Such is the case for De Pere, Wis.-based Green Bay Packaging Inc.'s Folding Carton Division (www.gbp.com) and its recent investment in atmospheric plasma surface treating technology.

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