Packaging online staff

A fire broke out at Sonoco Products Co.'s recycled paperboard mill in Menasha, Wis., on June 25. Firefighters contained the fire that broke out on the roof between vents of the company's U.S. Paper Mills Corp. facility.

Rusken Packaging Inc., Cullman, Ala., will hire approximately 50 people at its new plant in Harrisburg, Ark., by Jan. 1, and another 150 within the next three years.

Longview Fibre Paper and Packaging Co., Longview, Wash., which shed 40 percent of its work force over the last two years, has hired about 25 workers due to improving sales, company officials said this week.

Mark Graham, president and ceo of Bell Inc., will be honored with the Robert T. Gair Award during the 2009 Paperboard Packaging Council (PPC) Fall Meeting & Leadership Conference in October at the Barton Creek Resort in Austin, Texas.

On June 11 Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D-Mont.) and Ranking Member Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) released a legislative staff draft proposal to clarify the types of fuels that qualify for the alternative fuels tax credit and eliminate from eligibility fuel derived from the processing of...more >>

Corrugator maker Agnati S.p.A. has reorganized the structure of the company, including taking on a new Italian investor Gruppo Brivio Pierino & C.

Smurfit-Stone Container Corp. (SSCC) has closed its corrugated packaging plant in Raleigh, N.C., as part of a restructuring that has the firm shuttering facilities throughout the U.S.

At the FEFCO Technical Seminar last month in Berlin, Cargill, Mechelen, Belgium, received the spotlight presentation award in the Energy Savings category for its C*RheM™. C*RheM is a new adhesive rheology modifier based on renewable materials for the corrugating industry.