September 2023

Five different beverage carton designs of Flow brand alkaline water will appear at fall concerts managed by Live Nation Canada. …

Here are the food, pet product, and drug/medical device recalls by the US Food & Drug Administration for August. …

Three drop-in bio-derived replacements for fossil-fuel-sourced polymers and two enhanced-barrier polymers made from biomass provide brands with responsible packaging options. …

Pittsburgh, Pennesylvania based eProductivity Software (ePS) has announced an important partnership with Glen Arm, Maryland based SUN Automation Group.  This collaboration marks a significant step in ePS’ expansion strategy for its flagship CorrSuite, (formerly known as CTI), a comprehensive suite of end-to-end ERP and MES technology solutions, and Escada, its closed-loop…

Industry professionals and young professionals were recognized and awarded for their outstanding leadership and contributions to the corrugated and packaging industry during the esteemed TAPPI CorrExpo 2023. Additionally, five college students received scholarships to help support their continuing studies supporting packaging careers. Here are some of the highlights: Chris Krumm, David…

Plastic need not apply, according to organizers of the event known to packaging experts as “the Oscars of the paperboard industry.” The competition that drew entries from across the nation and internationally was judged recently at the One Financial Plaza building in Springfield. “A lot of this is really art. What…

TAPPI rocked another successful show with more than 1,100 people descending on Cleveland, Ohio for the CorrExpo 2023 conference, where the top leaders of the corrugated industry brought their innovations and met with  their many friends and colleagues.  Larry Montague, President & CEO of TAPPI, was proud to say that attendance…

Students in the Graphic Communications Management (GCM) Program at Appalachian State University will be using new equipment this Fall, provided by the International Corrugated Packaging Foundation (ICPF). The new Kongsberg X Edge 24 prototyping table replaces equipment previously awarded to GCM by ICPF in 2009, when GCM first developed packaging curricula…

Corrugated industry veteran Paul Joseph Aliprando, formerly of MHIA and SUN Automation Group, passed away at the age of 66, in Baltimore, MD on August 31, 2023. Born in Brooklyn, New York on December 31, 1956, to Tullio Joseph Aliprando and Helen Ann Aliprando, Paul was raised in a strong, traditional…

New research claims to show that microwaving plastic containers releases billions of microplastic and nano-plastic particles. But how do we know they are, in fact, plastic particles? …