Board Converting News, June 24, 2024

PPC Announces Open Registration For Fall Meeting

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The Paperboard Packaging Council announced open reg- istration for its Fall Meeting & Leadership Conference set for September 30 to October 2 at the Renaissance Waverly Hotel in Atlanta, Georgia. They will also celebrate the top honorees of the 81st annual North American Paperboard Packaging Competition and the finalists of the Paperboard Packaging Alliance’s 2024 Student Design Challenge. To register and book your room, visit paperbox.org .

SAUER SYSTEM www.sauersystem.com

Sauer provides intelligent solutions for scoring, slitting, slit-scoring, and perforating on corrugators and floor slitters; and glue tab cutting, creasing, slotting, trimming and scrap chopping on presses. New, featured offerings include FRX Adjustable Folding Rail System and G3 Scoring System: the latest proven creasing technology on the market.

AF&PA Releases May Printing-Writing Report

STAFFORD GROUP www.go2stafford.com

Interactive website for Stafford Corrugated Products and Stafford Cutting Dies. Featuring online ordering of replace- ment parts. Also, visitors can automatically calculate sheet size for most die-cut standards.

The American Forest & Paper Association (AF&PA) re- leased the May 2024 Printing-Writing Monthly report. Printing-writing paper shipments increased 1 percent in May compared to May 2023. Printing-writing paper inven- tory levels increased 2 percent when compared to April 2024. U.S. purchases of printing-writing papers increased 10 percent in April compared to the same month last year. Individually, U.S. uncoated free sheet (UFS) purchases increased 10 percent over the same period, coated free sheet (CFS) purchases increased 21 percent while me- chanical (MECH) paper purchases decreased 4 percent.

SUN AUTOMATION GROUP ® www.sunautomation.com

SUN Automation Group is the global leader in providing innovative solutions to the corrugated industry. SUN engi- neers and builds the SUN625 Rotary Die Cutter, provides sales, service and support in North and Central America for Latitude Machinery Corporation, manufacturer of Mini to Jumbo FFG and RDCs. Additionally, SUN is the North Amer- ican, UK and Ireland sales and service provider for Para Machinery’s line of equipment, and is the North American sales provider for Highcon. SUN also powers the corrugat- ed industry’s premier IIoT platform, Helios, and is the OEM source for Langston/Staley equipment parts and service. THACKER INDUSTRIAL SERVICE COMPANY www.thackerindustrial.com Specializing in corrugated machinery, T.I.S.CO. offers quali- ty-made products, support services, and more. T.I.S.CO. has a reputation of dependability, not only in the product, but in service and support. With more than 25 years’ experience, T.I.S.CO. installs equipment and machinery, moves or sets up entire plants, rewires and rebuilds - all over the world. VT GROUP www.vtgrouponline.com VT offers prepress services for the POP display and corru- gated shipping container industry including graphic design, optimized digitally imaged printing plates and innovative pre-mounting solutions. Our large-format digital printing fa- cility (Digital Impact) is a leading short-run manufacturer of distinctive POP displays and signage where litho-like graph-

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