Paperboard Packaging Council

ALEXANDRIA, Va.—The Paperboard Packaging Council has relocated its headquarters to Springfield, Mass., effective August 15, 2008. PPC’s Alexandria, Va., offices closed Monday, August 11 in a move to integrate its management, marketing, communications, data, and industry analysis operations in Springfield. “We strive to continually provide our members with more value, resources, and opportunities while maintaining PPC’s position as the voice of the paperboard packaging industry,” says Ben Markens, PPC president. “This move is another milestone in PPC’s coordinated expansion of service and support to our members and will help strengthen their success within the industry.” Moving into PPC’s new Springfield headquarters will be an

If you’ve never heard the word “sustainable,” you probably live on a different planet. The term has been unleashed in full force during the last couple of years, as concern for our environment continues to grow. It especially has had a dominating presence in package printing. As a material that leans toward being environmentally friendly, paperboard has the chance to step up and lead the sustainable front. The Freedonia Group expects that demand for corrugated and paperboard boxes in the U.S. will rise 2.5 percent annually through 2012 to $39.9 billion, and sales of corrugated and solid fiber boxes will increase 2.7 percent to

Thinking ‘inline the box’ in Charlotte Inline was the word of the day at the Gallus/BHS Folding Carton Technology Seminar in Charlotte, N.C, in November. About 50 attendees, including North and South American folding carton manufacturers and paperboard converters, learned “How to add value to the box while improving efficency.” Klaus Bachstein, CEO, Gallus Group, kicked off the afternoon with a presentation on the Gallus/BHS inline philosophy. He explained that creating finished diecut blanks with a web-based system in a single pass optimizes workflow, simplifies handling, saves time, and boosts cost-effectiveness. He said it also allows for improved effeciency and process flexibility. Speakers included

A few years after folding cartons fell into a slump, the state of the industry is showing promise. In a July Paperboard Packaging Council (PPC) study, “2007 Shows Recovery in Carton Shipments After Soft Close to 2006,” the association reported that although shipments from the first half of this year were down slightly compared with the first half of 2006, “the outlook for 2007 could be brighter after a slow start to the year. Year-to-date shipments have slowly but steadily improved over a soft fourth quarter 2006. Inventories have risen in June by 18.2 percent compared to May levels, which appears to indicate that

Top Folding Carton Converters — On the Rebound

ALEXANDRIA, Va.—The Paperboard Packaging Council (PPC) released results on folding carton shipments for the first half of 2007. Shipments this year are down from the first half of 2006, according to the PPC, but only slightly at minus 0.85 percent on dollar volume and minus 1.94 percent on tonnage. The outlook for 2007 could be brighter after a slow start to the year. Year-to-date shipments have slowly but steadily improved over a soft fourth quarter 2006. Inventories have risen in June by 18.2 percent compared to May levels, which appears to indicate that the third quarter will follow the traditional pattern of being the

ROCHESTER, N.Y.—Diamond Packaging of Rochester, N.Y. earned four awards in the 64th Annual National Paperboard Packaging Competition, the industry’s premier showcase for all that is new and outstanding in paperboard packaging design and technology. Awards were announced at the Annual Spring Meeting & Strategies Conference, held March 6-8, 2007 in Nashville, Tenn. The competition, which is sponsored by the Paperboard Packaging Council (PPC), provides members with an opportunity to display their most impressive packaging designs and productions, and promote winning packages to customers. Entries are judged in 26 different categories against three criteria: folding carton impact, manufacturing and distribution impact, and retail consumer impact.

JACKSONVILLE, Fla.—Rex Corporation was recently honored at the 2007 National Paperboard Packaging Competition with a Gold and Excellence Award. The Gold Award was presented to only 19 companies and the Excellence Award was presented to 60 out of 150 entries in this year’s competition. The Gold Award was presented in the Toys & Recreational Products category for the JBS Vicious Ultimate fishing line carton. The carton incorporates the manufacturer’s objective to develop a package that would increase output during the filling process, since the product is loaded by hand. They also wanted to increase the water resistance of the package since it’s used near

RICHMOND, Va.—MeadWestvaco Corporation received top honors in innovative consumer packaging solutions at the Paperboard Packaging Council’s (PPC) annual competition on March 7, 2007 in Nashville. The PPC awarded the company with the Innovation Award and a Gold Award for its electronically-enabled Kent cigarette box. MeadWestvaco also took home four additional Gold awards in consumer packaging solutions. “MeadWestvaco’s record of achievement in package development is really quite remarkable,” said Jerome T. Van de Water, president, PPC. “It is quite evident that their designers and engineers are well organized for innovation. The steady stream of new ideas and applications we are seeing is the kind of

SANDY HOOK, Conn.—On February 27, during the Conference Board’s 2-day Leadership Conference on Global Corporate Citizenship at The Barclay Hotel in New York, Don Droppo, Jr., Curtis Packaging’s VP of marketing, addressed the topic of “Leveraging the Supply Chain for Competitive Advantage.” Droppo’s co-presenters on the panel were John A. Delfausse, vice president, global package development, Estee Lauder Companies and John Frey, director, corporate environmental strategy, Hewlett-Packard Company. Droppo’s presentation, “The Eco-Advantage,” focused on the role sustainable packaging plays in protecting the environment and the ways Curtis Packaging, which was founded in l845, has converted its operations to 100 percent clean, renewable energy. The