drupa is to the printing and paper industries what the Olympic games are to athletes. Taking place every four years, the 2008 drupa trade fair is May 29 to June 11 in D?sseldorf, Germany. There are more than 1,800 exhibitors spread across an exhibition area of more than 170,000 sq meters and...More>>

Imagine an enjoyable - and educational - vacation with Uncle Sam, in the form of our tax laws, picking up part of the tab. That's right, every corrugated container and folding carton converter, the owner and employees of that business (even someone who is a shareholder/employee), can legitimately...More>>

Georgia-Pacific (GP) President and CEO Jim Hannan’s two-year-old daughter often keeps him up at night.More>>

The containerboard price increase attempt dance has again begun in earnest.More>>

Four forces will change the containerboard industry, says Rodney Fisher, president, Fisher International, a 20-year-old paper industry information services firm based in South Norwalk, Conn.More>>

Do your box plant employees know all the ins and outs of inks, cutting dies, starches, and printing plates?More>>

When Wal-Mart unveiled its plans to reduce its packaging by 5 percent by 2013, and to measure the environmental impact of packaging material using a packaging scorecard, sustainability immediately became a top-of-mind issue for the company's suppliers and the packaging industry at large.More>>

The paperboard packaging industry is under tremendous pressure lately from customers such as Wal-Mart, Target, Kraft Foods, and General Mills to implement the concept of sustainability into packaging.More>>

The worldwide market for corrugated and paperboard boxes is projected to exceed $165 billion by 2010, says Global Industry Analysts in a new study entitled Corrugated and Paperboard Boxes: A Global Business Report.More>>

Georgia-Pacific (GP) may seek to purchase Temple-Inland (T-I), which itself is a leading contender to buy Federal Way, Wash.-based Weyerhaeuser Co.’s containerboard business, reports The Financial Times, London, which learned of these developments from dealReporter.More>>