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Update on Paperboard Packaging Council
November 1, 2008 By: Packaging online staff Paperboard PackagingThe Paperboard Packaging Council is a leading trade association serving suppliers of folding cartons and other forms of paper-based packaging, such as laminated small flute cartons, cylinders and rigid setup boxes. Members include converters of packaging, as well as suppliers of equipment and materials used in the converting process. PPC's stated mission is to (1) grow, promote and protect the paperboard packaging industry, and (2) provide member companies with tools to compete effectively in the marketplace. To learn more, call PPC at 413-686-9191 or visit www.ppcnet.org.
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PPC Out and About
In September, PPC President Ben Markens and Tony Petrelli, president of CardPak Inc. and PPC chairman, traveled to Marseille, France, to attend The Beauty of Cartons, ECMA Congress 2008.
ECMA is the recognized body of the European carton industry, serving as the voice of the industry for European cartons, monitoring and addressing industry and international issues. Markens and Petrelli attended the ECMA board meeting, where Petrelli made a presentation updating ECMA on the U.S. folding carton market.
Take Your Carton Off the Shelf...and Into the Spotlight
I The 2009 National Paperboard Packaging Competition (NPPC) is underway! Don't delay – enter today at www.ppcnet.org/nppc. The entry deadline is Jan. 9. Complete competition details also are available online.
Each year, this competition honors the best paperboard packaging designs from the past year. Now in its 66th year, this year's NPPC has some new features that will help maintain its place as the industry's benchmark design competition.
All-new in 2009 is the Eco Award, honoring the entry with the best use of paperboard as a substrate – or in replacement of another substrate – to provide a sustainable packaging solution.
"We're really excited to add the Eco Award to the competition," PPC President Ben Markens says. "Consumers are finally putting energy and effort into replacing plastic with paper in order to increase their use of sustainable packaging. For years, our industry has been offering solutions that meet this challenge, and the industry's premiere design competition should reflect their ingenuity and accomplishment."
 Left to right: ECMA Executive Director Jan Cardon; Pascale Cardon; PPC Chairman Tony Petrelli; Per Lundeen, ECMA chairman and managing director of Sweden's A&R Carton; and PPC President Ben Markens. |
Another outstanding feature of the competition is that one design entry has three chances to be recognized as an industry leader. All entries compete for the Paperboard Package of the Year Award (formerly the President's Award). Contestants can also opt to have their entries compete for the inaugural Eco Award, focused on sustainability, and the prestigious Innovation Award, recognizing outstanding design based on structural integrity and processing that combine to achieve superior form and function. Runners-up to all three awards receive Gold or Silver recognition.
"These parallel judging tracks are in place to accurately reflect – and recognize – the diversity and breadth of creativity of the paperboard packaging industry," Markens says.
Judging for this year's competition will take place in January in Springfield, Mass., near the new home of PPC headquarters. Winners will be announced at PPC's Spring Outlook & Strategies Conference, March 18-20, in Atlanta. For more information, visit www.ppcnet.org/nppc, or contact Kelly Freter at 413-686-9191 or kelly@ppcnet.org.
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