Board Converting News, May 17, 2021

AICC Recognizes Milestones, Safe Shop Award Winners

Box Shipments ( U.S. Corrugated Product Shipments) Industry Shipments In Billions of Square Feet Month December 2020

AICC, through its Member Milestone Program, recently recognized member companies celebrating significant level anniversaries at the 2021 Spring Meeting on April 26- 28: Isowa, 100 years; Tiruna, 100 years; Jamestown Con- tainer Companies, 65 years; Progress Container & Display, 50 years; and The BoxMaker, 40 years. AICC also presented its Independent Safe Shop Awards, an annual recognition of AICC companies for out- standing performance in plant safety in 2020 and 2021. For 2020, awards were presented to Air Conveying Corp.; Akers Packaging Service Group (Middletown); Akers Packaging Solutions (Decatur), Akers-Webster West Pack- aging (Evansville); Akers-Webster West Packaging (North Vernon); Lawrence Paper Company, American Packaging Division; Hoosier Container Inc.; McElroy Contract Pack- aging; Tecumseh Packaging Solutions; Unicorr Packaging Group/Vermont Container; and Wunderlich Fibre Box Co. For 2021, awards were presented to Akers Packaging Solutions (Decatur); Akers Packaging Solutions (Hunting- ton); Akers-Webster West Packaging (Evansville); Law- rence Paper Company, American Packaging Division; Ar- row Box Company; Box-Board Products, Inc.; Wunderlich Fibre Box; Jamestown Container Rochester, HP Neun Divi- sion; and Jamestown Container Cleveland.

Year

Actual

Percent Change Avg Week Percent Change

2020 2019

34.916 31.332

11.4

8.729 7.833

11.4

Industry Total

Year-to Date

December 2020

Year

Actual

Percent Change Avg Week Percent Change

2020 2019

406.776 393.483

3.4

8.071 7.838

3.0

Industry Total

Containerboard Consumption (Thousands of Tons)

Year

Month

Percent Change Year-to-Date Percent Change

2020 2019

2.7727 2.5660

8.1

33.0739 32.3005

2.4

Container Board Inventory - Corrugator Plants (Thousands of Tons)

Corrugator Plants Only

Date

Percent Change Weeks of Supply

Percent Change

Dec. Nov.

1.8921 1.7912

5.6

2.7 2.5

8.0

Shipping Days

Year

Month

Year-to-Date

2020 2019

20 20

252 251

SOURCE: Fibre Box Association

8

www.boardconvertingnews.com

May 17, 2021

Made with FlippingBook - professional solution for displaying marketing and sales documents online