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Press operators at Litho Press will appreciate the Rap- ida 145’s new touchscreen operating panel, which comes with a press status display at the delivery end. To meet a client’s demanding schedule, Litho Press operators can easily check an app to find details on the current job and the next in line. Newly-released Koenig & Bauer’s Job Optimizer will analyze all parameters of their job list and workflow to ensure optimum productivity. Ever since his father and grandfather started the busi- ness in 1953, Bernie and his brother John have continued the family tradition of always seeking out the very latest in print technology. Today, sales are posted at $31 million per year. “We believe the new Rapida 145 will provide us with unparalleled levels of productivity,” says Lacy. “With its high speed, quick makeready, and connectivity, the Rap- ida 145 is truly a press for the modern era. We’re proud to be the first to have this particular press in North America, the most powerful large-format Rapida that the market has ever seen.” Analysts: U.S. OCC Recycling Rate May Be Below 70 Percent According to an article in Resource Recycling , two corru- gated industry experts have crunched the numbers and concluded that the OCC recycling rate is likely much low- er than estimates published by the paper manufacturing sector. Myles Cohen, an industry veteran and founder of con- sulting firm Circular Ventures LLC, and Ryan Fox, corru- gated market analyst at Bloomberg Intelligence, estimate the U.S. old corrugated container (OCC) recycling rate is around 69 percent, far lower than the 91.4 percent calcu- lated and reported by the American Forest & Paper Asso- ciation (AF&PA) in May of this year. Cohen and Fox presented the conclusions of their al- ternative OCC recycling rate methodology in a session at the 2022 Resource Recycling Conference, held last month in Austin, Texas. They estimated higher OCC generation in the U.S. than was shown in AF&PA numbers, mainly due to the high volumes of boxes that come into the U.S. to hold imported goods (imported boxes are not accounted for in AF&PA’s data). Including imported boxes creates a larger denominator in the recycling rate calculation, resulting in a lower rate. Fox, who worked for a decade in packaging sales be- fore becoming a market analyst, published some of his OCC research in Bloomberg’s Green Markets publication shortly before the conference. “The corrugated industry has long insisted that more than 90 percent of boxes are recycled each year, yet the true figure appears to be much lower,” Fox wrote in that re- port. “As companies seek to position themselves as envi- CONTINUED ON PAGE 36
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