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Paperboard Packaging Council Reflects On Drupa 2024 International Trade Fair Ben (PPC President Ben Markens) and I are incredibly grateful for the opportunity to travel to Düsseldorf, Germany, to attend drupa 2024, the first trade fair since the COVID-19 pandemic. It was a transformative ex-
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perience to walk over 100,000 steps at the event. We were thrilled to reconnect with our international friends and colleagues, and it was fantastic to see so many people from the United States making the trip across the pond.
drupa is considered the Olympics of the printing and packaging world. I wasn’t sure what to expect when we arrived in Germany, but all our expecta- tions were exceeded. During our time there, we no- ticed three key themes everywhere we looked: sustainability and auto- mation, innovations and digitalization, and data integration. Emily Leonczyk
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Our drupa tour stop at BOBST featured a presentation on their lead- ing innovations to increase productivity, connectivity, digitalization, auto- mation, and sustainability. Thank you, Harold Leete and team, for having us at your booth! We were so pleased to meet with Graphic Packaging International, LLC Packaging International CEO, Michael Doss. Thank you for taking the
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time to celebrate our Associate Members’ innovation and tech- nology advancement. We stopped by the BW Pa- persystems booth where Max Rawson featured their innova- tive Mercury project. The new generation of web-fed platen die cutter can get up to 2.5 times the output of traditional flatbed die cutters, producing up to 25,500 boxes per hour!
At the Valco Melton booth, they are addressing the need to support skilled workforce challenges by showcasing their camera inspection CONTINUED ON PAGE 14
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