Printer News February 2011

PEOPLE

APPLETON, Wis.—Great Northern Corporation has appointed Marty Maher to the position of vice president, general manager of its Chippewa Falls facility. Maher comes from Smurfit-Stone Container Corporation, where he most recently served as general manager and sales manager of its plant in Des Moines, Iowa.

DECATUR, Ill.—Huston Patterson Corp. recently named Joe Morelli as its client services manager for Northern California, Arizona, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Arkansas, and Texas.

PITTSBURGH, Pa.—The Label Printing Industries of America (LPIA) announced the selection of John "Jack" Turan, team leader for Rochester, N.Y.-based Hammer Packaging Corporation, as the 10th inductee into the LPIA Hall of Fame. The LPIA Hall of Fame honor is conferred to that converting executive who has reached an unsurpassed level of excellence and achievement in the industry.

Packaging That's Safe 
for Food and the Planet

MILWAUKEE—To meet the demand for environmentally responsible packaging, Precision Color Graphics (PCG), located in Franklin, Wis., claims to be the first company in the nation to introduce a line of pet food packaging that does not use petrochemicals. The bags have a paper exterior and biopolymer film lining made from corn.

"Our Ecoterah brand of patent-pending bags is appearing on store shelves now," says John Goeden, PCG president. "We're very excited to be the first to introduce compostable, earth-friendly pet food packaging to the market."

Tuffy's® Pet Foods, Inc. is PCG's first customer to use Ecoterah packaging. This Minnesota-based company has been manufacturing several brands of dog and cat foods for 45 years. Tuffy's chose Ecoterah packaging for its line of Natural Planet Organics™ dog foods.

"We felt this packaging was the right thing to do for the environment," says Jim Farrell, sales and marketing manager at Tuffy's Pet Foods. "But we also expect it will help boost sales. Customers who want organically grown dog food are the same type of customer who are attracted to earth-friendly packaging."