August 2024

Chicago, Illinois based Mesirow, an independent employee-owned financial services firm, announced that Alex Foreman has joined Mesirow Currency Management’s trading team from Russell Investments. Foreman brings 12 years of strategy and execution expertise and joins a skilled trading team that averages over 20 years of experience and serves a global institutional…

The Print and Graphics Scholarship Foundation (PGSF) has again partnered to support the SkillsUSA National Championships, held June 25-27 at the Georgia World Congress Center in Atlanta, Georgia. Sixteen of the country’s top high school and technical school graphic communications students competed in the national finals for top honors in graphic…

TAPPI and AICC, The Independent Packaging Foundation, are reminding members to register by August 9 to take advantage of early bird discounts to attend the TAPPI/AICC SuperCorr Expo SuperCorrExpo September 8-12 in Orlando, Florida. Member registration before the early bird date is $1,395 and $1,595 after. Four-day “Expo Only” passes are…

The Paper and Packaging Board (P+PB) Innovation announced the latest episode of Pack It! Packaging Design Challenge featuring host Cassie Stephens enlisting the help of former contestants Emma Dayton and Zachary Weston to solve a unique packaging dilemma involving her cats using all paper-based materials that can be recycled. Evolving alongside…

LENEXA, KAN. (AUG. 1, 2024) – The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Region 7 has completed oversight of removal operations by the potentially responsible party at the C6-Zero Site in Marengo, Iowa. After the explosion and fire on-site on Dec. 8, 2022, the Iowa Department of Natural Resources (IDNR)…

LENEXA, KAN. (AUG. 1, 2024) – The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Region 7 performed removal operations at a private property near Hillsboro, Missouri, last week after receiving a Request for Federal Action from the Missouri Department of Natural Resources (MoDNR). On July 25, EPA Region 7 deployed an…