AICC Mexico Meets In Guadalajara
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More than 200 members of AICC Mexico met No- vember 15-17 in Guadalajara, Mexico, for the 2022 AICC Mexico Annual Meeting and Trade Fair. The three-day event offered educational seminars, general session presentations, and a trade fair fea- turing 37 suppliers of corrugated machinery, equip- ment, and services. Also on the agenda was a tour of Cartographic, a corrugated and folding carton operation in the nearby town of El Salto. The meeting began on Tuesday, November 15, with a daylong seminar, “Packaging Design Work- flow Process Mapping,” by Andrew Hurley, a pro- fessor of packaging science at Clemson University in Clemson, S.C. The five-hour session looked at a seven-step process of design for customer-focused, sustainable packaging. Working in teams, the 52 at- tendees created hypothetical products, developed and assembled packaging design prototypes, and then presented them to the group. The meeting continued on Wednesday, November 16, with general session presentations from several industry and business-management speakers. AICC Mexico President Sergio Menchaca, CEO of EKO Empaques, opened the session and welcomed at- tendees. Noting the growth of AICC Mexico in the past two years, he reported that the Association has 75 member companies, up from 40 in 2019. He then welcomed AICC President Mike D’Ange- lo, who reported on activities at AICC International and urged members of AICC Mexico to participate in the Association’s Spanish-language training pro- grams and free online courses. Jana Harris, CEO of Harris Packaging and American Carton in the Dal- las-Fort Worth metro area and Chairman of AICC, also gave welcoming remarks, noting the need for more education about our industry in colleges, uni- versities, and trade schools. The featured industry speaker of the morning was Mark Wilde, Senior Paper & Packaging Analyst with BMO Capital in New York, who gave an overview of the containerboard and corrugated markets in North America. He noted the recent months’ de- cline in box demand and the softening container- board markets as a result and predicted that the major producers will soon be announcing closure of older mill assets, adding that new capacity com- ing onstream in 2023 will also put downward pres- sure on paper prices. Juan Javier Gonzalez, CEO of Cartro, a major in- dependent supplier of sheets located in the Mexico (Cont’d on Page 10)
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