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As editor-in-chief of Packaging Impressions — the leading publication and online content provider for the printed packaging markets — Linda Casey leverages her experience in the packaging, branding, marketing, and printing industries to deliver content that label and package printers can use to improve their businesses and operations.

Prior to her role at Packaging Impressions, Casey was editor-in-chief of BXP: Brand Experience magazine, which celebrated brand design as a strategic business competence. Her body of work includes deep explorations into a range of branding, business, packaging, and printing topics.

Casey’s other passion, communications, has landed her on the staffs of a multitude of print publications, including Package Design, Converting, Packaging Digest, Instant & Small Commercial Printer, High Volume Printing, BXP: Brand Experience magazine, and more. Casey started her career more than three decades ago as news director for WJAM, a youth-oriented music-and-news counterpart to WGCI and part of the Chicago-based station’s AM band presence.

The fantastic promo item and packaging from Grav perfectly communicate both the brand promise and positioning. The promo coffee cup evokes the high quality of the brand’s products with the cup’s simple but elegant design; the promo packaging is a delightful contrast. Learn more about how the ornate carton tells the brand story in this week’s POW!

News on printers to the package printing industry, including Great Northern Corporation, Huston Patterson, Label Printing Industries of America, Precision Color Graphics, Repacorp, Inc. and Aladdin Label.

Manchester will ultimately be merged into PaperWorks, itself an affiliate of Sun Capital Partners. With five facilities in Michigan, Indiana, Pennsylvania, Virginia and Texas, Manchester Industries provides large-scale sheeting, rewinding and cutting operations to commercial printers and packaging companies across the continent. The company’s 180 employees will become part of the PaperWorks Paperboard Group. "Manchester Industries has carved out its place as a world-class converter," stated PaperWorks Industries CEO Thomas J. Garland. "These five plants will be a significant asset for PaperWorks as we move forward, and we intend to spare no effort to ensure that Manchester’s reputation for

Plastic packaging will be the focus of a new episode of "Modern Marvels," set to premier on Jan. 14 on the History Channel. The episode will feature Joe Hotchkiss, director of the packaging school at Michigan State University. Here's how the History Channel describes the episode: "It's all around us--so much a part of our lives that we forget it's there. But try to survive a single day without packaging. This episode reveals the astounding technology and ingenuity required to create our packaged world. At a Michigan company that designs water bottles, we'll show you how engineers find their

This week marked the completion of the Hurricane Ike restart project at the DuPont Sabine River Works plant. The site’s ethylene unit began operation this week and was the site’s final unit to return to normal operation.

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