Carton/Box Archive
National Adhesives Publishes Brochure on Adhesives for Corrugated Products
A new brochure from National Adhesives provides an overview of the company's adhesives for corrugated products...
Folding Technique Training
Heidelberg will host training classes on basic and advanced folding techniques this February at Hennepin Technical College in Brooklyn Park, MN...
February Carton & Box Reporter
Colbert Gets Honor LAKE FOREST, IL Colbert Packaging Corp., a manufacturer of folding cartons, rigid paper boxes, and paperboard specialty products, has...
Offset Printing: Friend to All
Boxes may not have changed too drastically over the years, but the way they are customized to promote, display, and advertise their contents has seen...
Sheeters Add Capacity
THATOOM, THAILAND Thai pulp and paper manufacturer Advance Agro has added to its capacity in cut-size paper converting with three lines from E.C.H. Will...
IP Begins Linerboard Production
| International Paper has begun production of high-performance lightweight linerboard at its Pensacola, FL, mill. ...
CorrExpo Keeps Boxmakers in the Race
INDIANAPOLIS, IN CorrExpo 2007, TAPPI's Corrugated Packaging Conference, was held October 30-November 1 at the Indianapolis Convention Center. Racing...
AICC Names Year's Best Boxes
ALEXANDRIA, VA The Assn. of Independent Corrugated Converters (AICC) held its 13th Intl. Corrugated Packaging Design Competition in Minneapolis, MN, October...
Carton & Box Reporter
Judges Choice Award-Graphics 1 Allpak Container and sister company Trojan Lithograph Corp., Renton, WA, created a world-class container for World Class...
Heat Wave
Active packaging, designed for microwave ovens by Graphic Packaging, delivers hot, tasty deli sandwiches for Kraft foods. ...
Reduce & Comply
Going green? Be prepared to face the challenges of today’s complex environmental compliance regulations....
Be A Good Citizen
What do the ancient Iroquois, Thomas Jefferson, and many of today’s leading companies have in common? They all embraced a philosophy that has become known as “sustainable development.” Today, this philosophy encourages manufacturers to balance the “triple bottom line impact” of their operation—people, profit, and planet—when making business decisions. ...
Scoring the Scorecard
The deadline to comply with Wal-Mart’s packaging initiative looms. Industry associations weigh in on the hurdles for converters....
5 Steps to Green
Organizations that make environmental responsibility a top priority are realizing that not only are the results great for the environment, they’re also good for business. Lower energy costs, less waste, and invaluable goodwill among customers means potential repeat business....
Food Packaging Solutions Conference
The PrintCity Project Group "Food Packaging" will present it latest best practice knowledge in "Food Packaging on Folding Carton" at the Design Once Output Many (DOOM) conference in Bari, Italy, September 27-29, 2007....
KBA Holds 2nd Lenticular Seminar
KBA North America held its second comprehensive four-day seminar on lenticular printing and prepress work in early July 2007, bringing together the company's lenticular, printing, and marketing experts. ...
KBA and Paragraphics Showcase UV Capabilities at Open House
KBA North America held a successful UV printing and coating open house at Paragraphics Inc. with live demonstrations of several special effect UV printed jobs on a KBA Rapida 105 41-inch sheetfed press, along with presentations from related UV and coating vendors. ...
White Sale
With Modernistic’s acquisition of a Durst flatbed UV inkjet digital printer, POP customers are seeing graphics that pack a punch....
Meadwestvaco Answers Call for Sustainable Packaging
Meadwestvaco Corp. has announced the findings of an independent comparative analysis between its tear-resistant, paberboard-based Natralock packaging solution and the traditional PVC clamshell package. ...
Diamond Packaging Earns Paperboard Packaging Awards
Diamond Packaging has earned four awards in the 64th Annual National Paperboard Packaging Competition sponsored by the Paperboard Packaging Council (PPC). ...
Critical TRENDS
Last year's April issue featured, for the first time, PFFC's special report on the critical trends affecting the converting industry. This year, we again...
Preserve & Protect
The newly reincorporated North American Packaging Assn. (NAPA), Alexandria, VA which combines the membership of the National Paperbox Assn. and the Canadian...
Updating Critical Trends
This month, PFFC brings you the results of its annual Critical Trends survey that we published for the first time in April 2006. As with most they tend...
HPx Academy Opening
Huston Patterson will host the Grand Opening of its HPx Academy on May 18, 2007. ...
Cradle 2 Cradle
Sustainability and collaboration were hot topics at the Paperboard Packaging Council's spring meeting, held March 6-8 at Loews Vanderbilt Hotel in Nashville,...
