August 2025

Elkhart, Indiana based Colbert Packaging, one of the Midwest’s leading independently-owned paperboard packaging manufacturers, has announced its participation in Startup Moxie, an entrepreneurship-focused dual credit course connecting high school juniors and seniors from across Elkhart County for daily immersive experiences. Sixteen students toured Colbert’s Elkhart facility and engaged in discussions with…

The 2025 BCN/AICC Innovator of the Year Competition is still open for entries. This competition is being held at the 2025 Annual Meeting in Chicago, Illinois. The deadline for entry is Friday, August 22, 2025. This year’s boxmaker competition highlights new ideas or innovations in the areas of production, administration, in-house…

Axiom Color Campus, an online educational platform dedicated to preventing printing waste in the flexographic printing industry, has announced its official launch. With a mission to cultivate fully trained press room staff and transform them into color experts, Axiom Color Campus aims to reduce waste and ensure precise, vibrant color in…

Domino continues to grow its digital printing business with the addition of Tom Tripp as Digital Printing Sales Manager for Corrugated. Tripp will lead Domino’s corrugated business development efforts across North America, focused on sales of the Domino X630i, the company’s digital aqueous inkjet press purpose-built for the corrugated market.  With…

Atlanta, Georgia based Georgia-Pacific has announced the retirement of Christian Fischer, who has served as president and CEO since 2017. Fischer will retire from the company at the end of October, ending a tenure dating back to 1989. Beginning in August, he will transition his responsibilities to Mark Luetters, who is…

According to Packaging Dive and other media reports, containerboard producers are being hit with a class-action antitrust lawsuit accusing them of creating a “cartel” and engaging in price collusion to boost profits at the expense of customers, as first reported by Bloomberg Law.  On Tuesday, July 29 Artuso Pastry Foods Corp….

Flair Packaging is expanding its Canadian manufacturing capabilities with the installation of a 10-color flexographic press and a solventless laminator at its plant in Calgary, Alberta. To support this growth, Flair has also acquired a second plant in Calgary, adding 35,000 square feet of warehouse and production space, which now serves…

AF&PA released its Q2 2025 Boxboard and Containerboard Quarterly reports on July 25. Total Boxboard production in Q2 remained essentially flat compared to Q2 2024. The boxboard operating rate was 87.6 percent, down 1.8 points from the same quarter last year. Solid Bleached Boxboard – Domestic production in Q2 increased 6…

The PMMI Foundation, the charitable arm of PMMI, The Association for Packaging and Processing Technologies, has donated more than $100,000 to the Michigan State University (MSU) School of Packaging in 2025 through the PMMI U Skills Fund. This investment underscores a longstanding partnership focused on strengthening the pipeline of skilled professionals…

FFTA has announced the recipients of the 2025 Scholarship and Gary Hilliard FQC Scholarship, recognizing two outstanding students. Andrew Kidd, a Graphic Communication student at California Polytechnic State University – San Luis Obispo, has been awarded the 2025 FFTA Scholarship. A full-time student, parent, and wine label designer, Kidd brings a…