The Paperboard Packaging Council (PPC) will host its annual Technical and Production Forum June 4-5 at The Marriott in Springfield, MA. At this special Design Summit, industry experts will lead discussions on how to effectively manage a creative team and how open innovation can grow a folding carton business.
The Safety Boxscore awards, presented at Paperboard Packaging Council's (PPC) Spring Outlook and Strategies Conference, held April 3-5, are given to PPC member companies based on the cumulative number of hours worked the previous year without an OSHA-recordable injury. “Safety is of utmost importance in the packaging industry and it is a testament to our members that such a large group can claim this achievement year after year,” expressed Brian Chaisson, director of industry benchmarking at PPC.
The Paperboard Packaging Council (PPC) is pleased to announce that one principal and three associate members have recently joined the association.
Two experts on employment issues are scheduled to speak at The Paperboard Packaging Council (PPC)’s Spring Meeting: Outlook and Strategies Conference on April 3-5, 2013 at the Gaylord Opryland Hotel in Nashville, TN.
packagePRINTING’s Excellence Awards competition, now in its 27th year, is unique in many ways. It not only includes all major packaging materials categories, such as tags and labels, flexible packaging, folding cartons, and corrugated, but also covers the major printing processes including flexo, offset, digital, gravure, screen, and any combination in between.
The highlight of the Paperboard Packaging Council's upcoming 2013 Spring Meeting: Outlook and Strategies Conference in Nashville, TN, will be the presentation of the Chairman’s Safety Award, which is presented to the company that finishes the year with the most hours worked without an OSHA-recordable injury.
Last month, financial executives came together in Chattanooga, TN for the Paperboard Packaging Council (PPC)’s Financial Executives Institute, enjoying two days of presentations—covering such topics as the advantages of using the virtual cloud for information storage and the methods for preventing information overload. An in-depth tour of Southern Champion Tray’s plant in Chattanooga was also included.
At the PPC's Human Resources Forum in Chattanooga, TN last month, human resources managers had the opportunity to receive updates on healthcare reform and labor laws; advice on continuity planning for an aging workforce; and a live demonstration of virtual interviewing.
News on printers in the packaging printing industry, including Keystone Folding Box Company, Rollprint Packaging Products, Spear, Outlook Group Packaging & Printing Solutions, Hammer Packaging, The Paperboard Packaging Council (PPC), Prolamina Corp., Bell Inc., Sonoco, The MATLET Group and Plastic Packaging Technologies.
The winners of the Paperboard Packaging Alliance's Eighth Annual Student Design Challenge received a cash prize to share among the team and one of equal value for the school. Winners were chosen by a team of four paperboard packaging industry professionals who rate submissions based on their response to the competition scenario, innovative structural and graphic design, functionality, and quality of the finished product.
