Official Board Markets articles from January 2002

Official Board Markets archives from January 2002

`Baled' might be banned.
January 5, 2002... Soon the term "baled" may be removed from certain recovered paper definitions found in the 2001 Scrap Specifications for Domestic Transactions. At the Institute of Scrap Recycling Industries' Winter Membership Conference on January 14 at the...

Weyco reaffirms Willamette bid.
January 5, 2002... Weyerhaeuser Co. has reaffirmed its $55 per share cash offer for smaller rival Willamette Industries Inc., saying it would not go any higher because the expected level of combined synergies didn't warrant a higher price. Weyerhaeuser's...

Transacted containerboard prices.(Statistical Data Included)
January 5, 2002... Average transacted price levels are tabulated by obtaining paid prices from independent converters purchasing linerboard and medium. All prices are intended as a reference standard only. Transactions may be concluded at any time at any price...

Smurfit-Stone starts interactive web site.
January 5, 2002... Smurfit-Stone Container Corp. has started www.ssccboardsales.com from the company's Board Sales division. The interactive site features news and information about Smurfit-Stone containerboard products, mill and sales office locations. It also...

Cosmetic container demand to grow.
January 5, 2002... Cosmetic and toiletry container demand in the U.S. is projected to increase 2.4 percent yearly through 2005 to more than 20 billion units, valued at $3 billion. The advances will reflect rising shipments of cosmetics and toiletries. Other...

Kiwiplan expands in New Zealand.
January 5, 2002... Kiwiplan New Zealand relocated its office to a 10,000 sq ft facility in East Tamaki, Auckland, in response to its growing customer base. Custom-designed to enhance the development environment, the new facility houses state of the art meeting...

Why put-off objections are a `put-on'.
January 5, 2002... The current chorus that I'm hearing in the field from sales professionals is the apparently wholesale movement among customers to "put off" or postpone making buying decisions until later this year - due, of course, to our current economy and...

Rock-Tenn revises operating results.
January 5, 2002... The Rock-Tenn Co., Norcross, Ga., has changed its presentation of certain segment operating income data for fiscal 2002. As a result, the company is publishing revised historical segment operating income results consistent with its changes....

OBM stock index.(Statistical Data Included)
January 5, 2002... obm stock index Exch. Company Ticker Close % Change Symbol 1/2/02 This Week NASD Amcor Limited (H) AMCR 14.99 4.10 NYS ...

Do we really need an economic stimulus package?
January 5, 2002... Members of Congress closed shop and left for the holidays without passing an economic stimulus package and the nation is probably better off for their leaving. Unfortunately, politics trumped economics and both parties came up with proposals...

FPPA sets convention agenda.
January 5, 2002... The Flexographic Pre-Press Platemakers Association (FPPA) has scheduled its 5th Annual Convention for March 10-12 at the Sanibel Harbour Resort & Spa in Sanibel Island, Fla. The conference's keynote presentation, "Industry Trends in the...

OCC market report.
January 5, 2002... It looks like the bottom has been hit with OCC prices throughout the country. Is this to say that there aren't any board mills paying below the price range we're currently reflecting in the chart above? Of course not. But the overwhelming...

Superflex [TM] Top Print flexo foldergluer.(Brief Article)
January 5, 2002... ISOWA introduces its new Superflex [TM] Top Print flexo foldergluer. The machine, coming in 53- by 110-inch or 48- by 110-inch versions, reduces waste water per color and ink loss during order change, while discharge is kept to a minimum, so...

Obituary.(Brief Article)
January 5, 2002... Samuel H. Epstein, chairman of the Continental Paper Grading Co., Chicago, died Dec. 25. Epstein, 75, was the grandson of the company founder and was actively engaged in the company for more than half a century. The company ownership will...

Specialty Fibres, LLC.(Brief Article)
January 5, 2002... Specialty Fibres, LLC, Walnut Creek, Calif., appoints Michael Kelso to its Domestic Sales and Fiber Procurement Division. He grew up in and around the recovered paper industry and spent the previous seven years working with his father, King...

TAPPI offers printing short course.
January 5, 2002... TAPPI's Advanced Printing on Corrugated Board short course will take place March 20-22 at the Omni Dallas Park West in Dallas. Attendees will learn the benefits of color theory and instrumentation in evaluating color and color values. The...

Caraustar buys Woodward jogger-aerator.(Brief Article)
January 5, 2002... Caraustar Custom Packaging's folding carton plant in St. Louis, Mo., recently installed a Woodward jogger-aerator Model 7000. The jogger-aerator jogs, aligns, aerates, turns over sheets of paper, paperboard, corrugated, Typar, or slip sheets in...

2002 Education and Training Catalogue.(Brief Article)
January 5, 2002... The Association of Independent Corrugated Converters (AICC) releases its 2002 Education and Training Catalogue, a 34-page manual detailing its extensive training programs offered in 2002 in sales for success, improvement, commitment,...

UV Process Supply, Inc.(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
January 5, 2002... UV Process Supply, Inc. introduces two new UV curing systems for users requiring production curing energy at economical prices. Designed to produce 1600 watts of curing power, the CON-TROL-CURE [R] UV-5 and UV-10 come complete with an enclosed...

Packaging Design and Development.(Brief Article)
January 5, 2002... Packaging Design and Development, new from TrendWatch Graphic Arts, assesses the highly-competitive, diverse and growing packaging business with landmark research, delving into the demands of packaging buyers. It also leaks trade secrets of...

Groome & Associates, Inc., d.b.a. Groome Paperboard.
January 5, 2002... Groome & Associates, Inc., d.b.a. Groome Paperboard, promotes Jodi Garrett to president and Cathy Hicks to executive vice president. Hicks' duties will include sales management, marketing and purchasing. Joe Derrico is added as a salesman, with...

Bobst Group Inc.
January 5, 2002... Ron Sousa and Eugene Bratton are appointed regional service managers for the Bobst Group Inc., Roseland, N.J. Sousa will handle folder-gluers for the U.S. and Bratton will handle SP-SPO diecutters in the Northeast region.

Anderson & Vreeland, Inc.
January 5, 2002... Wesley Anderson and Howard Vreeland, Sr. retired from Anderson & Vreeland, Inc., the company they co-founded more than 40 years ago in Fairfield, N.J. They formed the company in 1960 to serve as a distributor of materials manufactured by...

Smurfit-Stone appoints new pres.(Brief Article)
January 12, 2002... Smurfit-Store Container Corp., Chicago, elects Patrick Moore president and ceo to replace Ray Curran, who retired. Moore also succeeds Curran on the board of directors. Moore, 47, had been vice president and cfo of Smurfit-Stone since...

IP cuts jobs, containerboard.(Brief Article)
January 12, 2002... International Paper (IP), Stamford, Conn., will cut 350 jobs and 100,000 tons of containerboard capacity as part of its effort to streamline operations in the face of weak demand. The Oswega, N.Y., containerboard mill will be shut down by...

Inland backs off.(Brief Article)
January 12, 2002... Last week Temple-Inland's bid for Gaylord Container Corp. failed, as some Gaylord shareholders declined to accept the offer. The company said that in accordance with its offer, all Gaylord shares had to be tendered for the merger to go through....

Transacted containerboard prices.(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
January 12, 2002... Average transacted price levels are tabulated by obtaining paid prices from independent converters purchasing linerboard and medium. All prices are intended as a reference standard only. Transactions may be concluded at any time at any price...

Smurfit-Stone closes braintree plant.(Brief Article)
January 12, 2002... Citing depressed economic conditions and market pressures, Smurfit-Stone Container Corp., Chicago, is discontinuing operations at its sheet plant in Braintree, Mass. Smurfit-Stone plans to gradually transfer production to its sheet plant...

Liberty adds service container.(Brief Article)
January 12, 2002... Service Container Corp. (SCC), Compton, Calif., is now a fully-owned division of Liberty Diversified Industries (LDI), New Hope, Minn. The two companies have been partners in the packaging industry since 1998. This acquisition expands...

Willamette rejects Weyco (again).(Brief Article)
January 12, 2002... Willamette Industries Inc. rejected a sweetened Weyerhaeuser $6.1 billion takeover bid, signaling a possible end to the 15-month hostile takeover battle. Willamette has completely cut off discussions about a buyout. Last month,...

Grow or go, says Andreozzi.(Brief Article)
January 12, 2002... For corrugated and folding carton plants trying to get through these trying economic times, take the advice of Eric Andreozzi, managing director at McColl Partners: grow or go. "There is no room in the middle," says Andreozzi, co-founder...

Jamestown embraces supply chain.(Brief Article)
January 12, 2002... Corrugated Technologies, Inc. (CTI), San Diego, and Jamestown Container, Falconer, N.Y., launch CorrChain, the first supply chain management system specifically developed for the corrugated container industry. The CorrChain system now places...

Pride installs load turner.(Brief Article)
January 12, 2002... Pride Container Corp., Chicago, installs a Model 7300 jogger aerator load turner, manufactured by Automatan Inc., to prepare stock prior to litho printing. With a 4400 lb platen lifting capability, the load turner easily inverts, aligns and...

Smurfit-Stone installs CUBIX.(Brief Article)
January 12, 2002... Smurfit-Stone Container Corp.'s North Chicago plant recently purchased a CUBIX counter ejector from Alliance Machine Systems International LLC. Willie Maldonado, plant manager, says the company will run the machine in three shifts with...

Fibre containers purchases e-Advantzware.(Brief Article)
January 12, 2002... Fibre Containers Corp., City of Industry, Calif., purchases the e-Advantzware e-Business software suite from Advanced Software, Yardley, Pa. Designed with Progress Software Corp.'s web-speed software, e-Advantzware allows customers connected to...

SHS, linear team up.(Brief Article)
January 12, 2002... A joint venture between the SHS group, SCM Container Machinery, its U.S. division, and Linear Products Inc., an H.B. Fuller Co., results in the successful application of the Open-Sesame[R] system on the SHS/SCM shortpress beltless doublefacer...

PlateDriver.(Brief Article)
January 12, 2002... Purup-Eskofot releases the PlateDriver, a new computer-to-plate device promising greater productivity, flexibility and reliability. Available in 4 up and 8 up formats, it features a flexible design, simplified and efficient plate loader, and...

Obm stock index.(Illustration)
January 12, 2002... obm stock index Key: NYS = New York ASE = American NASD = NASDAQ(s) = Stock split MON = Montreal Exch. Company Ticker Close Symbol 1/9/02 NASD ...

MMI's BDS bought by KBA.(Brief Article)
January 12, 2002... KBA North America, a subsidiary of Koenig & Bauer AG, has recently purchased the design and manufacturing rights to MMI's BDS-4000 flexographic press for corrugated. Terms weren't disclosed. MMI also was appointed the exclusive sales agent for...

Kiwiplan launches Int'l web site.(Brief Article)
January 12, 2002... Kiwiplan's web site, www.kiwiplan.com, is now viewable in English, French, German, and Spanish. The site invites visitors to learn how Kiwiplan's Total Solution can benefit corrugating and packaging plants. It also features timely and detailed...

ENCORE[TM].(MacDermid Graphic Arts )(Brief Article)
January 12, 2002... MacDermid Graphic Arts introduces ENCORE[TM], a new uncapped sheet photopolymer product designed for high quality printing on flexible packaging, folding cartons, preprint linerboard, multiwall bags, and labels. It is available in 45, 67, 107,...

RadTech 2002 comes to Indy.(Brief Article)
January 12, 2002... RadTech 2002, the world's largest UV/EB conference and exhibition, sponsored by RadTech International North America, is scheduled April 28 to May 1 at the Indiana Convention Center in Indianapolis. Giving the keynote presentation will be...

How prevalent is baled?(old newspapers )(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
January 12, 2002... This week the Institute of Scrap Recycling Industries will be voting on whether or not to eliminate the term "baled" from its definitions of #6, #7 and #8 News. What's behind this move? Recent conversations with mill buyers and packers shed...

Box converters learn what's new.(Brief Article)
January 12, 2002... At last week's Chicago TAPPI Meeting at the Ramada Hotel O'Hare, box converters heard 11 machinery and product suppliers discuss their latest developments. Here's a rundown of what the 123 attendees heard: * Bobst Group's Kevin Marston...

Smurfit-Stone Container Corp.(Brief Article)
January 12, 2002... Pete Dages, vice president and general manager, Smurfit-Stone Container Corp., Chicago, has resigned. Jim Davis, who was previously vice president and area manager at the company, replaces him.

Gerber installs profile at GJ.(GJ Steel Rule Dies Inc., )(Brief Article)
January 12, 2002... Gerber Innovations installs its Profile die tool production system at GJ Steel Rule Dies Inc., Bolingbrook, Ill. The Profile will enhance GJ's state of the art diemaking capabilities, allowing the company to generate complete die tool sets --...

FLXON teams with Nireco.(Brief Article)
January 12, 2002... FLXON Inc., the exclusive supplier of the Swedcut[R] doctor blade line in Charlotte, N.C., is joining forces with Nireco America, Port Jervis, N.Y., to promote the company's extensive web handling and web inspection product line to the...

Corotec Corp.(Brief Article)
January 12, 2002... Corotec Corp., Farmington, Conn., introduces a combined unwind station/sheet treating system to its Uni-Dyne line of self-contained corona treating systems. Designed specifically to evaluate coating and treating methods for printing...

AR200SA.(Brief Article)
January 12, 2002... BST Pro Mark introduces the AR200SA, a closed-loop makeready register control system for Flexo CI presses. The only standalone makeready register control system on the market is designed for retrofit installations on CI presses with motorized...

Gaylord Container Corp.'s.(Brief Article)
January 12, 2002... Gaylord Container Corp's box plant in Marion, Ohio, recently received three divisional awards for its fiscal year 2001: Manufacturing Excellence, the company's eighth consecutive year of sharing or winning outright; Sales and Marketing...

Systec Conveyors.(Jack Hogan)(Brief Article)
January 12, 2002... Jack Hogan joins Systec Conveyors as a sales representative. He brings 22 years of experience to the company, serving as president and general manager of Integrated Systems for 15 years, while also spending time with Economation and Pentek...

Econo Products, Inc.(Jim Ledford)(Brief Article)
January 12, 2002... Jim Ledford has been named Mid-Southern sales representative for Econo Products, Inc., Rochester, N.Y. With more than 20 years of extensive experience in the graphic arts industry, his background will enable him to provide printing solutions to...

Water Ink Technologies.(Brief Article)
January 12, 2002... After rapid growth in its water-based and UV flexographic products, Water Ink Technologies adds Randy Terry as a technical sales representative. He has spent more than 18 years in flexo printing and converting, with experience in inks, coatings...

Southern container acquires Pohlig Bros.(Brief Article)
January 19, 2002... Industry veterans Michael Gaffney and James Petit, along with Southern Container Corp., Hauppauge, N.Y., are the new owners of Pohlig Bros., Inc., Richmond, Va. Terms were not disclosed. According to the Richmond Times-Dispatch, Pohlig, a...

CEO `hopeful' for 2Q Rally.(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
January 19, 2002... From a sales and earnings perspective, last year was a challenge for integrated companies in the corrugated container industry. On a year-to-date basis, corrugated shipments dropped 4.9 percent through November 2001, from 370.629 billion sq ft...

Transacted containerboard prices.(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
January 19, 2002... Average transacted price levels are tabulated by obtaining paid prices from independent converters purchasing linerboard and medium. All prices are intended as a reference standard only. Transactions may be concluded at any time at any price...

Smurfit-Stone closes Miss. plant.(Brief Article)
January 19, 2002... Smurfit-Stone Container Corp. has made a tentative decision to close operations at its Jackson, Miss., corrugated container plant. Operations will be consolidated with other Smurfit-Stone facilities in the region. The company says the...

Laimbeer packaging halts operation.(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
January 19, 2002... With little warning to workers or clients, former Detroit Pistons center Bill Laimbeer dosed his 195,000 sq ft corrugated factory in Melvindale, Mich. The plant closure affects about 100 employees. According to The Detroit News, Laimbeer...

Investment company buys Ranpak.(First Atlantic Capital Ltd.)(Brief Article)
January 19, 2002... First Atlantic Capital, Ltd., a private investment firm, acquired a majority interest in Ranpak Corp., Concord Township, Ohio. Terms were not disclosed. The acquisition is the third buyout for the firm's most recent equity fund, Atlantic...

Firm seeks restraining order.(Brief Article)
January 19, 2002... Milberg Weiss has filed an application for a temporary restraining order against Willamette Industries board of directors. The law firm says the order is due to the board's refusal to say it would not attempt to merge with the building products...

Metro Waste completes purchase.(Metro Waste Paper Recovery Inc.)(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
January 19, 2002... Metro Waste Paper Recovery Inc. has completed its purchase of the assets of the Paper Recovery Division of Norampac Inc. and ETL Recycling Services Inc. Terms were not disclosed. The assets include eight Norampac plants located in British...

Explore your next direction with FBA.
January 19, 2002... What's your company's next direction? Explore this topic at the annual membership meeting and preliminary program of the Fibre Box Association (FBA), April 7-9 at the Four Seasons Resort in Palm Beach, Fla. Dee Allsop, senior vice...

Purop-Eskofot, Barco Graphics merge.(Brief Article)
January 19, 2002... Purop-Eskofot A/S and Barco Graphics have signed the final agreement for the two companies to merge. Purop-Eskofot President and CEO William Schulin-Zeuthen has decided not to accept the offer to head the new company. In order to manage...

Batavia chooses Automatan Inkontrol.(Brief Article)
January 19, 2002... Batavia Container, Batavia, Ill., installs an Inkontrol[R] automatic flexo viscosity/pH control system on a rotary diecutter from Automatan Inc. The Inkontrol system monitors and controls viscosity and pH to assure print quality consistency...

Dayton Corrugated installs Imaginera.(Brief Article)
January 19, 2002... Amtech, Bensalem, Pa., sold its advanced Imaginera system to Dayton Corrugated Box, Dayton, Ohio. Imaginera is a highly-integrated, Windows-based software solution for the box industry. Modules included cover all aspects of customer service,...

OBM stock index.(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
January 19, 2002... obm stock index Exch. Company Ticker Close Symbol 1/16/02 NASD Amcor Ltd. (H) AMCR 15.45 NYS Boise Cascade BCC...

GATF offers new Frontline Supervision Primer.(Brief Article)
January 19, 2002... GATFPress, the publishing division of The Graphic Arts Technical Foundation (GATF), releases its latest introductory-level book, Frontline Supervision Primer, a "how-to" guide to production management helping graphic arts supervisors face a...

When will OCC prices rise?(Brief Article)
January 19, 2002... This year's first quarter OCC market will overall soften 8 percent, while mixed paper will only retreat 4 percent, says Moore & Associates' Bill Moore in his latest price forecasting quarterly report. "Last year's recovered paper...

Square footage, dollar sales up at independent plants.(Brief Article)
January 19, 2002... In 2000, U.S. independent corrugator plants reported an average 3.3 percent increase in square footage from 1999 with an 11.9 percent increase in annual dollar sales, according to the Profile of the Independent Corrugated Converter, a new...

Transacted boxboard prices.(Brief Article)
January 19, 2002... Transacted boxboard prices The prices tabulated here are intended only as a reference standard to the current levels commonly prevailing in a representative proportion of the U.S. contract transactions. The prices listed do not connote...

M-real Alliance, Zanders team up.(Brief Article)
January 19, 2002... M-real Alliance USA, the sales arm of M-real Corp., Norwalk, Conn., joins forces with Zanders USA, Wayne, N.J. The objective behind the merger is for M-real Corp., the majority shareholder of Zanders Feinpapiere AG, to combine its U.S....

Clemson adds PPC handbook to Packaging Science class.(Brief Article)
January 19, 2002... The Packaging Science Dept. at Clemson University, Clemson, S.C., adds Ideas and Innovation: a Handbook for Designers, Converters and Buyers of Paperboard Packaging to its curriculum. The book, published by the Paperboard Packaging Council...

Converters get acquainted with new OSHA rules.(Brief Article)
January 19, 2002... January 1 marked the beginning of a new year and the start of new OSHA record-keeping standards. Earlier this month, members of the Association of Independent Corrugated Converters (AICC) participated in a conference call with J. Lester Ross,...

ICPF continues hands-on training.(Brief Article)
January 19, 2002... It's been a year now since the International Corrugated Packaging Foundation (ICPF), the Association of Independent Corrugated Converters (AICC), the Fibre Box Association (FBA), and the Fox Valley Technical College began offering hands-on...

PPC hosts waste, training forums.(Brief Article)
January 19, 2002... A Spring Technical and Production Forum, sponsored by the Paperboard Packaging Council (PPC), is scheduled April 23 and 24 at the Maison Dupuy Hotel, New Orleans. The workshop, focusing on the "Best Practices in Reducing Paperboard Waste,"...

Propheteer relocates.(Brief Article)
January 19, 2002... Propheteer International moved into a newly-built manufacturing plant in late 2001. The new facility is nearly double in size from 40,000 sq ft to 76,000 sq ft and it is located in Lake Zurich, Ill., 10 miles from its former plant in Palatine....

Smurfit-Stone installs SeeBeyond.(Brief Article)
January 19, 2002... Smurfit-Stone Container Corp., Chicago, has chosen SeeBeyond technology to integrate business and supplier applications across more than 300 Smurfit-Stone North American facilities. The SeeBeyond e*Gate[TM] Integrator platform will allow the...

Roll handling system.(Brief Article)
January 19, 2002... Ducker Fordertechnik GmbH introduces its mil handling system for high-speed corrugators. It offers a roll preparation station, mobile platforms, turntables, rewinder with taping device, high speed transfer car with clamping device for the roll,...

Lithoflute[TM].(Brief Article)
January 19, 2002... Smurfit-Stone Container Corp., Chicago, releases Lithoflute[TM], a litho-laminate miniflute that combines the strength of a corrugated container with the graphics of a folding carton. Serving various markets, Lithoflute comes in B-, E-, F-, N-,...

Three new pressroom troubleshooting guides.(Brief Article)
January 19, 2002... Sun Chemical Ink (GPI) introduces three new pressroom troubleshooting guides. Available as either handy, pocket-sized spiral booklets or a large wall poster, Paper Packaging, Energy Curable Inks and Energy Curable Coatings offer possible causes...

Graphic Packaging wins AmeriStar honor.(Brief Article)
January 19, 2002... Graphic Packaging Corp., Golden, Colo., is the recipient of the 2001 AmeriStar award, sponsored by the International Institute of Packaging Professionals, for its secondary package for Lipton Margarine. Bill Minnich, marketing manager at...

World's largest corrugated box?(Brief Article)
January 19, 2002... Norampac Inc., Vaughan, Ontario, waits patiently to hear from Guinness World Records before claiming official recognition for making the world's largest corrugated box. Norampac built the 2100 cubic-foot (30- by 10- by 7-feet) corrugated...

Industry injuries collected for report.(Brief Article)
January 19, 2002... The Association of Independent Corrugated Converters (AICC) and the Fibre Box Association (FBA) are collecting data for the 2001 Corrugated Container Industry Annual Report of Occupational Injuries and Illnesses. This annual report will be...

Strive wins design honors.(Brief Article)
January 19, 2002... The Strive Group, Chicago, was recognized for its outstanding activity at the recent 2001 Design of the Tunes Competition in New York. Strive received three awards for design excellence. The company received two Gold Awards, each for...