Board Converting News, August 12, 2024

TAPPI Election (CONT’D FROM PAGE 6)

Box Shipments ( U.S. Corrugated Product Shipments) Industry Shipments In Billions of Square Feet Month June 2024

Joe Wunder, President of A.G. Stacker Inc., has expe- rience in engineering, operations, and sales, within the industrial manufacturing and corrugated converting mar- kets. He holds a BS in Electrical Engineering from the Vir- ginia Military Institute and an MBA from Averett University in Virginia. He began his career as a Nuclear Instrumen- tation and Control Engineer, designing for nuclear power facilities and submarines and aircraft carriers for the De- partment of the Navy. While completing his MBA, Wun- der stepped into the role of Technical Sales Engineer, and later Vice President of Sales, at a regional industrial automation distributor. He joined A.G. Stacker Inc. as a regional sales manager in 2015 and became the director of engineering and manufacturing in 2016 before being named president in 2017. The current CPC includes appointed members from International Paper, The Haire Group, Menasha Packag- ing, WestRock, Packaging Corporation of America, Pratt Industries, Arvco Container, Advance Packaging, SMC Packaging, and Greif. The elected positions include members from BW Papersystems, Kohler Coating, Niag- ara Sheets, and Fosber. The Chairs of the Corrugated Di- vision Technical Committees, the YP Division Liaison to Corrugated, and the Supplier Advisory Committee Chair complete the council. For more information, email slunceford@tappi.org.

Year

Actual

Percent Change Avg Week Percent Change

2024 2023

30.635 33.080

-7.4

7.659 7.518

1.9

Industry Total

Year-to Date

June 2024

Year

Actual

Percent Change Avg Week Percent Change

2024 2023

189.589 189.478

0.1

7.464 7.459

0.1

Industry Total

Containerboard Consumption (Thousands of Tons)

Year

Month

Percent Change Year-to-Date Percent Change

2024 2023

2.5331 2.7016

-6.2

15.5229 15.5207

0.0

Container Board Inventory - Corrugator Plants (Thousands of Tons)

Corrugator Plants Only

Date

Percent Change Weeks of Supply

Percent Change

June May

2.2316 2.3155

-3.6

3.8 3.5

8.5

Shipping Days

Year

Month

Year-to-Date

2024 2023

20 22

127 127

SOURCE: Fibre Box Association

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