Board Converting News, October 30, 2023

PPC, AF&PA Promote Packaging Industry In Washington DC The Paperboard Packaging Council (PPC) announced on Linkedin its participation at National Forest Week in Wash- ington D.C. along with the American Forest & Paper Asso- ciation.

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• Bryanna Lawry, chemical engineering and paper sci- ence engineering, NCSU, Process and Product Quality Division Scholarship • Abigail “Abbi” Brooke Mendius, graphic design and production, Dunwoody College of Technology, Corru- gated Division Scholarship • Kate Ross, chemical engineering, Miami University, the Corrugated Packaging Division’s John O. Telesca Engineering Scholarship and Process Control Division Scholarship • Allison Thompson, chemical engineering, University of Maine, Engineering Division Scholarship, Paper and Board Division Scholarship, and the Ron Franklin Fiber- glass Mat Memorial Scholarship • Gracelynn Woods, paper science and engineering and chemical engineering, NCSU, Paper and Board Division Scholarship TAPPI is currently accepting scholarship applications for the 2024-2025 academic year. Applications are due February 15, 2024. For application details and to view the gallery of 2023-2024 scholarship recipients visit tappi. org/scholarships . For more information about the TAPPI Foundation and the scholarship program, contact Mary Beth Cornell, Mem- bership and Global Development Director, at mcornell@ tappi.org.

Their purpose was to educate legislators on the sus- tainability of the industry and the many multi-generational, family-run businesses that supply paperboard packaging for essential products. Pictured above, from left, are PPC staff members, Ben Markens and Brian Westerlind, Andrew Johnson of Graph- ic Packaging International, and Eric Malnove of Malnove Holding Company.

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