Board Converting News, January 4, 2021

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Box Shipments ( U.S. Corrugated Product Shipments) Industry Shipments In Billions of Square Feet Month November 2020

certain products is not exceeded. But vice-versa, the situa- tion can also be a challenge: If the outside temperature in Canada is -30°C, then we have to figure out how to protect our ingredients from the cold. That’s why we measure, cal- culate and produce packaging for each market individually.”

Year

Actual

Percent Change Avg Week Percent Change

2020 2019

33.612 32.060

4.8

8.845 8.437

4.8

Industry Total

Year-to Date

November 2020

Insulation: “Packaging doesn’t only insulate the ingredients from outside temperatures, insulation is also important to prevent leakage of liquids inside the box. This is a real challenge, especially now that we are using more and more pack-

Year

Actual

Percent Change Avg Week Percent Change

2020 2019

371.553 362.151

2.6

8.008 7.839

2.2

Industry Total

Containerboard Consumption (Thousands of Tons)

Year

Month

Percent Change Year-to-Date Percent Change

Thomas Regenhardt

2020 2019

2.6756 2.5847

3.5

30.3291 29.7345

2.0

aging made of paper. Paper packaging has a higher leak- age rate compared to other materials. This is something that we are tackling.” Regenhardt said thermal management will continue to keep Hello Fresh busy in the future. “It would be great to collaborate with an institute to analyize and optimize our thermal validation with regards to our ice packs. Ideally we can then implement this in our day-to-day business, by using ice modeling that can automatically tell us how much ice, or how many cool packs we need to ensure food safety. This will likely become very interesting in the next few years due to global warming – so having a theoretical

Container Board Inventory - Corrugator Plants (Thousands of Tons)

Corrugator Plants Only

Date

Percent Change Weeks of Supply

Percent Change

Nov. Oct.

1.7912 1.8156

-1.3

2.5 2.6

-3.8

Shipping Days

Year

Month

Year-to-Date

2020 2019

19 19

232 231

SOURCE: Fibre Box Association

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