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	November 25, 2008 Contents Out of the Box: Industry News New Products and Equipment Orders News from TAPPI Sponsored by Additional Resources TAPPI BUYER'S GUIDE TAPPI CALENDAR OF EVENTS CORRUGATING INTERNATIONAL ARCHIVE JOIN TAPPI For information on sponsoring this newsletter or other sponsorship opportunities with TAPPI, contact Eric Fletty at efletty@tappi.org or by calling +1 770-209-7535. Explore TAPPI's updated website for the latest in news, products and services, and all of your member needs at www.tappi.org. TAPPI assumes no responsibility for statements of fact and opinion; they are not intended nor should they be construed as a solicitation of or suggestion by TAPPI for any agreed-upon course of conduct or concerted action of any kind. Tell a friend to subscribe to TAPPI CI E-Corr or send a blank email to subscribe-ci_ecorr@list.tappi.org.	OUT OF THE BOX SCA Containerboard, Diegem, Belgium, reports that it received more than 1,200 entries from throughout Europe in its Creative Challenge for children event, held in connection with development of the company's presentation liners. A selection of hundreds of drawings by the young artists were displayed recently in Berlin as part of the SCA Containerboard Impressions event. SCA explains that the presentation liners are "the perfect paper to draw and color on, and it asked the children of its customers all over Europe to help illustrate this, using a variety of media and images. The unifying theme of the challenge was a celebration of friendship. Entries were grouped by Western Europe region, Middle Europe region, Nordic region, Southern Europe region, and United Kingdom region. All participants in the competition received a gift, but three special winners (in different age groups) from each market region are receiving a special prize to be shared with their schoolmates for an educational initiative. The full Gallery of Winners can be viewed on SCA's website. CARAUSTAR INDUSTRIES, Atlanta, Ga., USA, has consolidated two of its operations in Saginaw, Mich., into one new facility there, located at 3265 Commerce Centre. The two older facilities were turn-of-the-century, multi-storied buildings and were not designed for efficient manufacturing operations, the company notes. The new facility provides more streamlined operations while reducing work in process and materials handling costs. The consolidation, Caraustar says, continues its cost reduction strategy in geographic markets while ensuring long-term sustainability and competitiveness. The new facility allows for better and more efficient layout of machinery and processes. As a result, Caraustar explains that it will dispose of redundant assets, eliminate certain annual fixed costs, improve productivity, reduce direct labor costs, and increase its ability to focus on new product development. Caraustar serves the four principal recycled boxboard product end-use markets: tubes and cores, folding cartons, gypsum facing paper, and specialty paperboard products. IN OTHER CARAUSTAR NEWS, the company, together with Domtar (Montreal, Que., Canada) recently celebrated the tenth year of a paper recycling partnership with 14 area schools in Texas and Arkansas by presenting a check totaling $105,211 to be shared among the participating schools. The dollar amount reflects school-based collections of 824 tons of recyclable paper and board during the past 12 months, an increase of 100 tons over last year. A team-based approach, Domtar provides each school with a 30-yard recycling bin and includes the school in its area-wide paper donation program, which provides a steady stream of fiber. Caraustar services each bin and utilizes the fiber to manufacture recycled paper products, such as paper cores that it supplies to Domtar. Funds awarded to the participating schools benefit educational programs including science, math, technology, and environmental. ESKOARTWORK, Vandalia, Ohio, USA, has formed a partnership with Clemson University's Sonoco Institute of Packaging Design & Graphics to create the EskoArtwork Packaging Supply Chain Laboratory. The lab will focus on combining synergies of packaging design and graphic communications into the overall production and distribution manufacturing process. The Harris A. Smith Building, currently under construction on Clemson's South Carolina campus, will be the new home for the Sonoco Institute. The Packaging Supply Chain Laboratory will work inside the Sonoco Institute to provide resources for students to become a skilled and creative work force of the 21st century, house the only R&D center of its kind in the nation, recruit, hire, and maintain the top packaging design and graphics researchers in the world, and promote and stimulate technologies that can make the highest impact on the future of global environmental responsibility. FBA (Fibre Box Association) will hold its 2009 Annual Meeting March 30 - April 1, at the Willard InterContinental Hotel in Washington, D.C., USA. For more information about this event, contact Sharlene Huske, 847-364-9606, email: shuske@fiberbox.org. More information about the venue is available on the hotel's website. ICCA (International Corrugated Case Association) and WCO (World Containerboard Organization) will conduct the 2009 Global Corrugated Containerboard Summit in Tokyo, Japan, April 20 - 23. The event, to be held at the Imperial Hotel, will focus on the coming decade and how to "be the best competitor you can be in order to thrive." More information and registration details are available on the Summit website. KARTONSAN KARTON has completed the upgrade of BM 1 board machine at its mill in Izmit, Turkey. The drying section of BM 1 was rebuilt by Andritz, beginning this past August, with the goal of reducing energy consumption. BM 1 produces WLC (white lined chipboard), with a grade range between 300 and 450 g/m², and a working width of 2,200 mm. Andritz supplied a new canopy hood with supply and exhaust air system, optimized blow boxes for pocket ventilation, and a heat recovery system. Since startup after the upgrade, steam consumption of BM 1 has decreased by 10%, as planned, according to Haluk Iber, assistant GM at Kartonsan. MEADWESTVACO CORP. (MWV), Richmond, Va., USA, will discontinue operations at its MWV Packaging plant in Grover, N.C., by early 2009, in an effort to streamline costs and improve operating efficiencies. The facility produces packaging for the media and entertainment industry. Some production at Grover will transfer to other MWV packaging plants, and the company notes that its capacity to supply these products will not be affected. Closure of the Grover plant will affect some 120 hourly and salaried employees, who will be eligible for separation benefits in accordance with company policy. The company will be working with the North Carolina Rapid Response Team to provide assistance and support. "The decision to close the Grover facility was a difficult but necessary one," said Steve Scherger, president of Beverage and Media Packaging, MWV. "In today's challenging economy, we must focus on managing the cost elements that we can directly control. This includes carefully studying our operational footprint to determine how we can create greater efficiencies that will strengthen our presence in the marketplace." MONDI, Johannesburg, South Africa-based containerboard producer, reports that it has signed a land restitution settlement that will transfer more than 4,000 hectares of company land to the South African Kranskop communities of AmaHlongwa and AmaBomvu. The deal titles the land to the communities, which then lease it back to Mondi under a 20-year agreement that continues supply of timber to Mondi's mills. According to the agreement, the land and some immovable properties on it will be bought from Mondi by the Regional Land Claims Commission (RLCC) and/or the communities at a value of approximately R20.5 million. A settlement agreement signed by all three parties spells out the terms and governance of the relationship. The land will be owned by the two communities through the Siyathokoza and Eyethu Trusts. This is South Africa's first forestry related land restitution settlement agreement involving a corporate land owner. PUMP SYSTEMS MATTER (PSM) and the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Industrial Technologies Program are hosting free audio web briefings on how "Pump Systems Performance Impacts Multiple Bottom Lines." The 40-min sessions will be conducted on: Friday, December 12, at 11:00 a.m. EST and Monday, January 19, at 11:00 a.m. EST. Presenter Mike Pemberton of ITT Industrial Process, who has helped many industrial facilities save significant energy and other operating costs, notes that improved pump systems performance can lower maintenance costs and improve system reliability for better asset management, thereby improving a company's bottom line while helping cleanup the environment. With today's volatile economic conditions, he adds, finding ways to save money and improve operations is more important than ever. According to Pemberton, DOE studies show that nearly 25% of industrial electricity demand comes from industrial motor systems, more than 50% of pump life cycle costs result from energy and maintenance expense, less than 15% of pump life cycle costs are initial purchase costs, and energy savings of 20% or more are possible with systems optimization. Registration is required for the web briefings. SONOCO, Hartsville, S.C., USA, has named Jim Bowen senior VP, Sonoco Recycling and Internal Supply, effective immediately. Bowen will focus on expanding Sonoco Recycling's business through market development, acquisitions, and new services offerings. Sonoco Recycling collects and processes recyclable materials through 46 locations in North America, including a fleet of trucks and 1,300 trailers. He will also have responsibility for the company's internal supply businesses including the Adhesives, Machinery Manufacturing, and Forest Products divisions. Bowen has been senior VP since 2002, holding various senior management positions. Prior to that, he served as VP and GM, Paper; division VP, manufacturing, Paper North America; and director of manufacturing. He joined the company in 1972. STORA ENSO, Helsinki, Finland, will close down its Baienfurt Mill in Germany as well as PM 3 at its Kabel Mill, also in Germany, by the end of this year. The company had announced in September that it was considering a shutdown of the 190,000 metric tpy folding boxboard machine at Baienfurt. The shutdown of Baienfurt does not include the facility's sheeting service center. The mill has 391 employees, of whom about 40 will continue to work at the sheeting service center. Stora Enso says the shutdowns are due to persistent profitability problems caused by European overcapacity, the strength of the euro, and cost increases, especially for wood and energy. The company will seek parties to develop the Baienfurt site for industrial use other than board production. IN OTHER STORA ENSO NEWS, the company reports that it is investing EUR 137 million to build a new power plant at its Ostroleka Mill site in Poland. The Ostroleka mill produces containerboards and kraft and sack papers. The complex includes a corrugated board and boxes mill and a sack mill. The new power plant, which will be able to use multiple fuels, will improve Ostroleka Mill's energy self-sufficiency and energy efficiency, thereby reducing carbon dioxide emissions. The aim is to increase biofuel usage depending on its availability. With the new power plant, the complex will be about 65% self-sufficient in electricity and 100% in steam production. Construction of the new power plant will start immediately and should be completed in the third quarter of 2010. The mill does not currently have its own power plant. USE OF CORUGATED CASES (rather than trays) is being increased by the proliferation of flexible packaging, such as pouches, according to Italy-based Cama Group. While bottles and tins can be shipped in corrugated trays, Cama notes, flexible pouches require more substantial protection. The company added that many in the industry were looking at ways to reduce the practice of placing items into both a retail-ready case and then a transit shipper, pointing out that one option is to strengthen the retail-ready case so that an additional shipper is not required. New Products and equipment orders BENSON GROUP, Bardon, Leicestershire, has won both the Packaging Company of the Year award and the Cartonboard Packaging award at the recent 2008 UK Packaging Awards. The latter packaging award was for Sainsbury's "Taste the Difference" Fudge Range. This new packaging combines a contemporary flat-matt look with a new type of aqueous coating to achieve a soft-to-the-touch feel to the carton. The overall tactile effect comes from the unique materials in the formulation, and the unusual friction characteristics they impart, Benson Group explains. TAPPI News 2009 Flexography Basics for Corrugated Date: January 21-23, 2009 Venue: PrintCon Corrugated Labs, Clemson University Location: Clemson, South Carolina, USA Delivered with a solid mix of lectures and hands-on breakouts, this program includes several press trials and numerous sessions on how to produce clean solids and line work as well as halftones and spot colors. Many typical troubleshooting issues will be addressed from dot gain and die cutting to proper graphic design for corrugated to ensure best results. This targeted course is co-sponsored by TAPPI and Clemson University. The primary course objective is to give participants a fundamental understanding of the key concepts to achieve quality direct flexographic printing on corrugated substrates and liner board. Attendees will gain the tools required to make improvements in their plants, and the skills to better communicate with technical professionals including printing plant staff, suppliers and customers. Online registration for the 2009 Flexography Basics for Corrugated course is now open; or, contact Kristi Ledbetter at kledbetter@tappi.org for more information. Coming in February: New Virtual Seminar What can be more convenient than targeted training right at your own plant? The Flexo, Auditing the Press and Ink 101 Virtual Seminar will offer exactly that. The seminar is slated for February 2009; a final date has not been determined. Your crew can learn how to print more boxes faster, at the lowest possible cost, with the information gained from this Virtual Seminar, which describes methods to assess the mechanical fitness of the flexo press in order to optimize productivity. In addition, a basic explanation of the interaction of the press and printing ink will lead to a better understanding of the printing process and lead to opportunities to produce superior quality print jobs. Machine operators, maintenance operators, supervisors and graphic designers for integrated box plants and sheet plants would all benefit significantly from this easy-to-attend course. To participate in this valuable and convenient seminar, all you need is a telephone and Internet connection. To maximize the value of your participation, use a speakerphone, gather the entire group and learn together! Attendees will be able to ask questions and interact with instructors, at your own location, over the telephone and Internet. Registration includes one computer connection and one audio connection per site. Contact Lisa Hightower at lhightower@tappi.org or by phone at +1.770.446.1400 for more details, or to reserve your spot for the final date. Did you miss SuperCorrExpo '08? If you're one of the unlucky few who had to miss SuperCorrExpo '08, we're sorry! But we can help you tap into some of the excitement. Experience the highlights online by reading the recap, viewing session materials, or downloading the 2008 Show Dailies. The SuperCorr'08 Show Dailies for September 23 and September 25 are available for downloading from the TAPPI website - a great resource for those who may have missed the big event, and a handy remembrance for those who were in attendance. Sessions available include Energy Saving Ideas, Project Commissioning Techniques, and more. You can also view the winners of the CorrPak® 2008 Competition. CorrPak® 2008 recognizes the finest commercially produced corrugated package products manufactured between August 15, 2006 and August 1, 2008. So whether you'd like to see what you missed, or relive the happy memories of attending, visit the SuperCorr'08 website today! Save these important dates It's not too early to begin making plans for the 2009 CorrExpo at the Hyatt Regency Hotel in Chicago, Illinois, Sept 1 - 3, 2009. You won't want to miss your chance to recharge and reconnect with your industry colleagues. SuperCorrExpo only comes around every four years, so you'll want to mark your calendars now! Dates have already been set for SuperCorrExpo 2012 at the Georgia World Congress Center in Atlanta, October 1 - 5, 2012. We hope to see you at BOTH of these events. TAPPI Members reap energy savings TAPPI's utility cost reduction affiliate, Power Systems Group, is beginning a pilot program with pulp, paper, and converting operations to offer utility cost reduction services and energy industry information. These services will be offered on a pay-for-performance basis at a significantly discounted rate for TAPPI Members. Power Systems Group's focus is to create competitive alternatives to drive down the rate and unit cost paid by commercial and industrial end-users of electricity, natural gas, and competing fuels. In short, the company will help you save money on energy costs. Combined with the TAPPI Member discount on services, it's a great benefit! Members can learn more about the PSG benefit by logging in at www.tappi.org and selecting My TAPPI. Corrugated Packaging Division Calendar of Events January 21 - 23, 2009 Flexography Basics for Corrugated - TAPPI/Clemson Seminar Series Clemson University, Clemson, SC February 25 - 27, 2009 Printing Enhanced Graphics on Corrugated Substrates - TAPPI/Clemson Seminar Series Clemson University, Clemson, SC Sept 1 - 3, 2009 2009 CorrExpo Conference and Exhibit Hyatt Regency Chicago

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