| | | | | | We Have a Lot to Gain
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Esther Durkalski Hertzfeld
| | | I believe, as many do, that the paperboard packaging industry has the edge in the sustainability race.
| | | Living with Synthetics
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Peter Witzig
| | | Despite its drawbacks, synthetic packaging continues to be a growth market, expanding at almost four times the rate of carton board.
| | | Performance Measures? Who Needs Them?
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Ben Markens
| | | I believe that the term "balanced scorecard" is misnamed. It implies that the measures and dashboard are the most important when, in the judgment of the Balanced Scorecard Institute and myself, they are an outcome of a process.
| | | Are You 'Brand-New?'
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John Bacot
| | | To be "brand-new" means to be self-renewing, to be able to change with the ebb and flow of the industry in which you sell, manufacture, and exist.
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| | | | Goodbye to Drab Wire Hangers
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Mark Arzoumanian
| | | When you get home tonight, take a look inside your closet. Of course it is filled with lot of shirts, blouses, pants, and skirts. Most of them are on wire hangers.
| | | Trendsetters in Printing and Graphics
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Stephanie Skernivitz
| | | Sam's Club, BJ's, and Costco all have something in common besides the obvious classification of "wholesale club." Each of these massive marketplaces loudly displays bulk size versions of the splashiest, flashiest, boldest, brightest graphics on packaging within 120,000 sq ft or more of otherwise drab concrete walls.
| | | Packaging and Serving a Win
| | | By
Esther Durkalski Hertzfeld
| | | Jones Packaging, London, Ontario, captured its first President's Award at the National Paperboard Packaging Competition with Nestle's Turtles Package, a package and serving bowl all in one. MeadWestvaco Corp., Glen Allen, Va., brings new life to a relatively static product category with the Electronic Hard Case cigarette carton and claimed the Innovation Award at the competition.
| | | Bennett Digs Success From a Limestone Mine
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Tom Andel
| | | Companies confronted by the challenges that the box business has faced might be tempted to bury their heads in the ground. Bennett Packaging buried its entire operation in the ground — not to escape reality but to rise to its challenges.
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| | | | Update on the Paperboard Packaging Council
| | | The 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 703-836-03300 or visit www.ppcnet.org.
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| | | | Box Biz
| | | Washington, D.C.—Totally linerboard capacity rose 0.2 percent in 2006, according to the AF&PA's 47th Annual Survey of Paper, Paperboard, and Pulp Capacity. Capacity increases resulting from productivity improvements, product mix changes within linerboard, and shifts from recycled medium, more than compensated for the removal of three machines.
| | | Product Focus
| | | Control-ing Laminators; Bobst Group North America; Lamina System AB; Standard Paper Box Machine Co., Inc.
| | | Product Innovations
| | | Duo-Technik's patented drying system for inline and rotary diecutters is characterized by requiring a very low installation space: It is available on the market in widths of 45 to 110 mm and working widths up to 3,600 mm.
| | | Technology Innovation
| | | Edgeboards and cornerboards machine lines from Eltete TPM can offer protection while stabilizing packaging and being environmentally friendly.
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