- Making Change
Sun Valley, CA-based paperboard-packaging converter Marfred Industries acquires RICO Packaging Materials of El Cajon, CA, on June 2. The move extends Marfred's geographic reach into the San Diego marketplace. RICO has served its area customers for 30 years with corrugated cases, packaging materials and shipping supplies. All of RICO's employees ......
- Cool boxes for a rebounding market
Good news has come in many beautiful packages for The National Paperboard Association (Alexandria, VA). While the 56th annual Packaging Competition, judged last February, recognizes the accomplishments of paperboard-packaging converters, it also strives to create a wider demand for paperboard packaging as a whole. It looks like “mission accomplished” as ......
- Paperboard packaging leaders form a
'renewed' commitment: executives analyze the trends,
challenges and opportunities that are shaping the paperboard packaging
industry today.
A group of executives at U.S. paperboard packaging companies formed the Paperboard Packaging Alliance (PPA) to provide their industry with ongoing analysis of evolving packaging requirements and innovations. The PPA is a joint initiative of the Paperboard Packaging Council and the American Forest & Paper Association. Alliance membership includes companies ......
- Setting standards of excellence.
As you walk through any grocery or retail store, you are faced with an endless possibility of product choices. Among the hundreds of available name brands, how do you find the product you seek? The answer: a recognizable package. Brand recognition is a key method for maintaining customer loyalty, and ......
- Smurfit-Stone container to acquire St. Laurent Paperboard for 1.19 times revenue
The Deal: The Smurfit-Stone Container Corp., North America's largest manufacturer of paperboard packaging, will buy St. Laurent Paperboard, Inc. for nearly $1 billion in cash and stock. According to the terms of the transaction, St. Laurent's shareholders will get $12.50 in cash and one-half Smurfit-Stone share for each of their ......
- Pushing boundaries
You'll never know how far you can go until you try. That phrase just might sum up the nearly 200 entries to the 63rd annual National Paperboard Packaging Competition. Organized by the Paperboard Packaging Council ( www.ppcnet.org ), the contest was judged during January in Arlington, VA, and the winners ......
- Awards Time!
Gravure printers and paperboard converters were honored recently by their respective peers in annual design and print-quality competitions sponsored by the Packaging & Label Gravure Assn. (New Madison, OH) and the Paperboard Packaging Council (Alexandria, VA). MeadWestvaco takes PPC President's Award For the second year in a row, paperboard converter ......