Tony Petrelli

BOCA RATON, Fla. NextLife, a leading provider of sustainable solutions for the consumer packaged goods industry, announced today a partnership with CardPak, a leader in custom engineered packaging designs and solutions for merchandising strategies that utilize carded packaging and specialty paperboard converting. Through the partnership CardPak will become the first carded packaging converter to promote NextLife Packaging Group’s 100% PCR PET blisters for club and warehouse retail packaging. Through a select network of manufacturer partners, NextLife Packaging Group provides a unique range of sustainable packaging solutions to consumer product companies, retail brands and retailers. The NextLife Packaging Group network

Printer/Packaging manufacturer CardPak, Inc. has added a new Bobst VISIONFOLD 110-A2 folder-gluer giving themselves greater capacity and versatility, while further streamlining and enhancing the efficiency of its manufacturing operation.

KBA North America, a global press manufacturer based in Dallas, Texas, announces that CardPak, Inc., a leading supplier of packaging products to consumer brand companies across the globe, has placed an order for a new KBA Rapida 106 41-inch ten-color perfecting press with coating tower and twelve-foot extended delivery. The new KBA press is currently being built and will be installed at CardPak's headquarters in Solon, Ohio in mid-November of this year. 'In the past three and a half years, we have completely transformed our company,' says Tony Petrelli, president of CardPak. 'We've established a strategic plan that has

When a company is successful during recessionary times, it's usually no accident. The success often results from a combination of strong, focused leadership; teamwork and commitment; and lots of hard work—all directed toward a vision of what needs to be accomplished. This pretty much describes what has taken place at Solon, Ohio-based CardPak, Inc. during the last three years.

SPRINGFIELD, Mass.—The Paperboard Packaging Council (PPC) and the North American Packaging Association (NAPA) have merged, creating a united, North American-based packaging industry association

The folding carton industry has some substantial positive qualities, which, in the long run, should bode well for its future. Two noteworthy aspects are its strength in the food and beverage markets and its position as a renewable resource. However, in light of the global economic meltdown, no industry escaped unscathed—2008 was a very challenging year all around.