TAPPI’s Corrugated Packaging Council Elects Two New Members TAPPI announced two new members recently elected to the Corrugated Packaging Council (CPC): Danny Lopez, VP, New Machinery Sales, The Haire Group, and Tom Sta- al, Director of Management Systems, Coastal Containers. The CPC acts as the governing body of TAPPI’s Corrugat- ed Packaging Division, developing strategic plans, press products and events. Lopez collaborates with Haire’s global customers to de- velop new products. He has worked his entire career in the corrugated packaging industry, beginning in 2006 as an application engineer for Alliance Machine Systems Interna- tional where he designed corrugat- ed plant layouts in North, Central and South America before switching to sales, management, and product support for all Alliance customers in the western U.S. and Canada. Staal used his experience as a plant floor supervisor, quality management professional, and now member of the organization’s management team to help Coastal transition from a sheet plant start-up to a full-line corrugated plant. of CORBOTEC. He previously served as an elected mem- ber of the CPC as well as an appointed member. He has served as working group chair on numerous TAPPI Test Methods and TIPs and on the Standards Advisory Review Group (SARG). Staal was awarded the Division Technical Award in 2019. The current CPC includes appointed members from In- ternational Paper, The Haire Group, Menasha Packaging, WestRock, Packaging Corporation of America, Pratt Indus- tries, Arvco Container, Advance Packaging, SMC Pack- aging, and Greif. The elected positions include members from BW Papersystems, Kohler Coating, Niagara Sheets, and Fosber. The Chairs of the Corrugated Division Tech- nical Committees, the YP Division Liaison to Corrugated and the Supplier Advisory Committee Chair complete the council. Each position is for a three-year term. Lopez and Staal will serve as Member-at-Large. TAPPI’s Corrugated Packaging Division focuses on the manufacture and use of corrugated containers and associ- ated packaging materials and serves as a forum for knowl- edge sharing in the industry. The Division is comprised of members who work for converters, suppliers, consulting companies, and others in the converting industry. A 30-year TAPPI member, he has been a long-time member of both the Corrugated Board Technical Ser- vice Committee (CORBOTEC) and the Fiberboard Shipping Container Testing Committee (FISCOTEC). Sta- al served as Chair of FISCOTEC and is currently serving as the Vice Chair Danny Lopez Tom Staal
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