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Dermot Smurfit, president of the European Federation of Corrugated Board Manufacturers (FEFCO), captured the collective wisdom of his organization's 13th Technical seminar in his opening remarks. The event took place April 20-22 in Nice, France.

"There's a serious disconnect between specifiers of corrugated packaging, and the users, which include the major supermarket groups," he says. "Sixty percent of corrugated goes through their system. Still, it's been estimated that in Germany alone, product lost through incorrectly specified or designed packaging results in a lo