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more Small Business Peer Groups. Later this spring, peer groups will have a dedicated meeting hosted by UPM Raflatac in Asheville, North Carolina. Initiation fees for FLAG will be $2,200 in 2020; how- ever, interested converters who attend a webinar on December 16 or 17 and join the organization by December 30 will save $1,000 and pay only $1,200 through this end-of-the-year incentive. New Members can try out FLAG for 90 days without obligation. Grupo Lappí Etiquetas Acquires New Nilpeter FA-17 Grupo Lappí Etiquetas of Spain has signed for the ac- quisition of a new Nilpeter FA-17, with Nilpeter agent, Maquinaria Esagraf SLU. “When we at Grupo Lappí make a decision to ac- quire new equipment, it is usually done with quite demanding parameters and procedures created inter- nally, by our experienced team of professionals,” said Mr. Antonio Lappi, President & CEO of Grupo Lappí Etiquetas. “We subject the different brands and their teams to maximum stress, in order to uncover the highest performance in print quality, speed, stability, online adjustments, and other Key Performance Indi- cators of interest. Currently in Grupo Lappí we print several products reel-to-reel, pressure-sensitive labels, sleeves, and wrap-arounds, with different substrates and qualities.We are sure that our new Nilpeter FA-17 will bring us competitive improvements and great per- formance in our production center.” Total containerboard production in October re- mained flat compared with containerboard production in October 2018, the American Forest & Paper Asso- ciation (AF&PA),Washington, reported in its October 2019 Containerboard Monthly report. Overall, AF&PA reports that containerboard production is down about 4 percent for the first 10 months of 2019 compared with the first 10 months of 2018. October production of containerboard for export increased about 4 per- cent compared with the same month in 2018, yet this figure is down 16 percent year to date compared with the same period in 2018, according to AF&PA. AF&PA reports that the containerboard operating rate for October was 94.7 percent, which is on par with where it was at in October 2018.Additionally,mill inventories of containerboard at the end of October decreased 26,000 tons from the previous month and were up 30,000 tons compared with October 2018. October Containerboard Production Remains Flat
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