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BoardConverting Serving the North American Corrugated and Folding Carton Industries for 37 years February 15, 2021 VOL. 37, NO. 7

IP, Cascades Announce Board Price Increases

Fosber Makes ‘Quantum’ Leap In North America BY JACKIE SCHULTZ

Memphis, Tennessee based International Pa- per last week announced a $60/ton domestic linerboard and medium price increase and Kingsey Falls, Quebec, Canada based Cas- cades announced increases of $60/ton for linerboard and $70/ton for medium. The announcement follows earlier re- ported increases by Packaging Corporation of America, which announced a $70/ton in- crease and Greif, which announced a $50/ton increase for all grades of uncoated recycled paperboard, a $70/ton increase on recycled and semi-chemical medium, and a $60/ton in- crease on recycled linerboard. All increases are effective at the beginning of March 2021. With this issue, Board Converting News has adjusted the Average Containerboard Prices on its page 3 chart by $50/ton for Kraft Liner and Semi-Chem Medium to reflect the increases announced by major paper suppli- ers late last year. As the chart states, average prices are tabulated from prices PAID by var- ious sources in North America and are only intended for purposes of reference. They do not connote any commitment to sell any ma- terial at the indicated average.

After considerable investment and R&D efforts between Quantum Cor- rugated and the Fosber Group, Fosber America is now ready to launch a new version of the Quantum corrugator in North America. The new line is being marketed as “Quantum by Fosber.” Introduced in 2015,

there are currently about a dozen Quantum installations worldwide, in- cluding one in the U.S. It was recently updated after the Fosber Group acquired 60 percent of Agnati and established a new company called Quantum Corrugated. The announcement last year of Fosber’s intent to acquire Agnati drew keen interest considering both manufacturers offer full line corru- gators. However, the redundancy stops at the Quantum, according to Jeff Pallini, President of Fosber America. “We saw a real future for the Quantum technology,” he says. Fosber offers three lines of what are considered traditional cor- rugators for high- and mid-volume box plants. The Quantum doesn’t compete with those lines. Instead it serves the specialized markets of microflute corrugated and high-end graphics, and soon will have lami- nating capabilities. Key sections of the machine were re-engineered to include Fos- ber’s proven technology while keeping Quantum’s patented innova- tions to preserve its niche appeal. The new line now includes Fosber Fosber America recently completed a 40,000-square-foot expansion of its headquarters in Green Bay, Wisconsin.

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AVERAGE CONTAINERBOARD PRICES The average prices reported are tabulated from prices PAID by various sources throughout the United States the week previous to issue. Prices in some areas of the country may be higher or lower than the tabulated average. The prices tabulated here are intended only for purposes of reference. They do not connote any commitment to sell any material at the indicated average. Transactions may be completed at any time at a price agreed upon by seller and purchaser.

REGION E. Coast Midwest Southeast Southwest

42# Kraft liner $935.00-940.00 $950.00-960.00 $950.00-960.00 $950.00-960.00 $980.00-990.00 $953.00-962.00

26# Semi-Chem. Medium

Short Ton Del. Short Ton Del. Short Ton Del. Short Ton Del. Short Ton Del. Short Ton Del.

$870.00-920.00 $885.00-905.00 $885.00-905.00 $885.00-905.00 $915.00-925.00 $888.00-908.00

West Coast U.S. Average

SHEET PRICES BY REGION (AVERAGE) Per 1MSF, local delivery included, 50MSF single item order, truckload delivery. Sheets

E. Coast Midwest South-SW S. CA N.CA/WA-OR US Aver.

200# 275#

$62.26

$72.05

$62.69 $82.80

$85.35 119.54

$73.13 101.29

97.32

99.89

90.86

113.65

OYSTER UP-CHARGE 8.34

8.34

8.34

8.34

8.34

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107.46 118.45

114.69 129.32

116.54 137.25 117.82 145.56

141.08

122.76

148.46

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AICC Moves Forward With 2021 Spring Meeting

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AICC, The Independent Packaging Association, will host the 2021 Spring Meeting, in-person, April 26-28, at the Omni Amelia Island Resort, Amelia Island, Forida. After polling the AICC membership, the AICC Executive Com- mittee unanimously supported the decision to proceed with the 2021 Spring Meeting. The meeting offers attendees valuable sessions and speakers to provide essential information and new trends. Attendees will also be able to connect with peers through various socially distanced networking opportunities, utiliz- ing the abundant outdoor space available at the Omni. Speakers will include Gene Marks, Columnist, Author, Small Business Owner and CPA, at The Marks Group, and Steve Robinson, Former CMO & EVP of Chick-fil-A. AICC is working with the Omni to ensure a safe environ- ment for all members who will attend the Spring Meeting. The Omni’s layout is geared well to a meeting of the size and scope of AICC with outdoor guest room entrances and all indoor spaces flowing to expansive outdoor areas. Registration info is available at www.AICCbox.org/ Meeting . Questions can be directed to Cindy Huber, AICC Director of Conventions & Meetings, at chuber@aiccbox. org or Laura Mihalick, Senior Meeting Manager, at lmihal- [email protected] or (703) 836-2422.

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SUN Automation Group Enters Strategic Partnership With PARA Srl Glen Arm, Maryland based SUN Automation Group (SUN), has announced that it has entered into an exclusive stra- tegic partnership agreement with the Italian material han- dling company, PARA Srl. Effective February 2021, SUN will be the exclusive representative of all PARA equip- ment for the United States, United Kingdom and Ireland. In addition, SUN will be the service provider for all PARA equipment and the distributor of PARA parts in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom and Ireland. PARA offers a variety of material handling and ma- chinery solutions for the corrugated industry and has in- stalled 15,000 products world-wide. PARA’s product range includes; pre-feeders, palletizers, RDC stackers, bundle breakers, pallet inserters, vertical storage solutions, paper

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The Foundation for Packaging Education (FPE) has received $725,000 in pledges and donations since launching in Novem- ber 2020. The Foundation began fundraising with a million-dollar match offered by AICC. All donations and pledges received in the first year, up to one million dollars, will be matched by AICC, allowing donors to have double the impact with their contribution. Thanks to the generous support of the Inaugural Donors thus far, Bay Cities; BCM Inks; Buckeye Boxes, in honor of Robert B. Hoyt; Central Package & Display; Deline Box & Display; Harris Packaging; James- town Container Companies; Michigan City Paper Box; Oklahoma Interpack; Package Crafters; Packaging Express; StandFast Packaging Group; SUN Automation; and Wasatch Container, the Foundation is ap- proaching its first-year goal of $2 million. The support offered by these companies is critical to the success of the FPE’s mission to support the development and delivery of employee education and training resources for workers in the corrugated, folding car- ton, rigid box industries. A well-trained workforce assures pro- ficiency in a discipline, an increase in em- ployee retention, and the opportunity for advancement as the employee learns more. Visit www.PackagingEd.org to become an inaugural donor.

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Chicago Electric offers 10 technology solutions to control ‘the Zone’ CORRUGATOR Sectoral preheating plate

Our sectoral preheating plates provide direct heat by means of a double steam circuit, allowing for efficient heating in hard-to-access locations, as well as to act as a steam shower to open the paper’s fibre, making it receptive to absorbing the heat and the glue.

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• The plate may only be used to heat, only to humidify, or both options at the same time. • The plate is sectored, which allows for applying humidity to the sections. • It provides temperature in previously inaccessible locations and near the location needed. • It compensates the loss of temperature dissipated due to distance, speed or limitations of the exiting preheaters. • Quick transferring of heat to the paper. • The combination of the hot plate and steam shower allows for providing heat even to the hardest papers to heat. • Does not dry out the paper. • Possibility of operating as a humidifier and pre-conditioner. • Maintains and improves the fibre’s elasticity. • Acts according to the operator’s needs. • Facilitates the paper’s hygroscopy to absorb the glue and improve rubberising.

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calibrations and settings. Bar systems avoid this, but compensate this with the risk of exces- sive glue application. The system contains many wearing parts. Solution The contact roll combines the ad antage of both systems and ensures minimum contact between board and applicator roll. The system uses small pneumatic cylinders in order to achieve a “soft touch.”

6. Gap Control 7. Curved Plate 8. Roller Shoe Press When it comes to a short-term increas of web tension, spring loaded systems with shoes or airpressure activated system have problems in compensating these. The system is lifted for a short time. This may result in de-lamination and in the ‘double kiss’ effect. Solution For a defined and exact bonding point of the web fiv weight rollers will be installed usually over the first flat hotplate of the heating section. The rolls are mounted into a frame, which is actuated by means of two pneumatic cylinders. P oductivity Issu —Double Kiss Bonding

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9. Thin Wall Hot Plates 10. Pressure System Benefits —Exact glue application due to defined contact of applicator roll to web. Web is in contact to less flute tips compared to bar systems. • High precision glue application • Less moisture applied to web —No wear of shoes and springs —No adjustment of shoes or paper gap —Uniform glue application over entire working width for all flutes by use of pneumatic cylinders instead of springs — Less contamination by paper dust and glue remains —No jam of board because of web breaks caused by splice joints going through 630-784-0800 Benefits —Rollers secure exact defined first point of contact of liner and single-faced board - No double kiss —Frame design avoids unintended lifting of roller shoe (compared to spring or air loaded systems) - No double kiss —Pressure can be increased or released for special grades or products 490 Tower Blvd., Carol Stream, IL Contact Chicago Electric to GET IT RIGHT 630-784-0800 [email protected] chicagoelectric.com Solution The ProPress system ensures an optimum heat transfer to the board. It offers a wide range of set- tings. The loadi g pressure can be varied, the number of shoes can be lifted in accordance t the line speed. The outer shoes can be lifted in accordance to the paper width. The shoe bars will be delivered pre-assembled for a short installation time. —Liftable for easy paper infeed and for cleaning of the machine —Position adjustable in paper direction to avoid grooves in hotplate Press Productivity Issue—Poor Heat Transfer Rollers are usually limiting the heat transfer, since they often have contact mainly on the edges of the plates due to wear or bent plates. They also cause often loss of caliper and bearing need to be replaced frequently. Airpressure actuated systems can only supply a limited pressure and have com- pared to shoe systems a closed surface. Pressure Shoe

Plate vity Issue—Poor Heat Control l hotplates are slow to react to pressure due to high steam volume and massive y also have high heat radiation and heat profile. Worn plates can damage crease edge crush.

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Hugh Cameron, Former Owner Of Cameron Containers, Dies At 90 Hugh T. Cameron, former owner of Cameron Containers in Toronto, a charter member of AICC, founder of AICC Can-

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

Year

Actual

Percent Change Avg Week Percent Change

2020 2019

34.916 31.332

11.4

8.729 7.833

11.4

Industry Total

ada and Past President of AICC Inter- national, passed away in December at the age of 90. After earning his degree from the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Cameron began his illustrious career in the corrugated box industry at Crown Zellerbach in

Year-to Date

December 2020

Year

Actual

Percent Change Avg Week Percent Change

2020 2019

406.776 393.483

3.4

8.071 7.838

3.0

Industry Total

Containerboard Consumption (Thousands of Tons)

Hugh Cameron

Year

Month

Percent Change Year-to-Date Percent Change

Toronto. At age 32, he was hired as national sales manag- er of Bathurst Containers in Montreal where he remained for four years. He returned to Toronto and worked with an independent sheet plant for two years before starting his own company, Cameron Containers, in 1968. While an owner he was one of a small group of inde- pendents in the Toronto area to become charter members AICC at its founding in 1974. He remained active in the industry even after the sale of his company. In 2005, Hugh was named a member of AICC Canada’s Hall of Fame. Hugh is survived by Bernardine, his wife of 67 years, four daughters, 14 grandchildren and 17 great-grandchil- dren. Contributions can be made in Hugh’s name to his favorite charity, The Salvation Army.

2020 2019

2.7727 2.5660

8.1

33.0739 32.3005

2.4

Container Board Inventory - Corrugator Plants (Thousands of Tons)

Corrugator Plants Only

Date

Percent Change Weeks of Supply

Percent Change

Dec. Nov.

1.8921 1.7912

5.6

2.7 2.5

8.0

Shipping Days

Year

Month

Year-to-Date

2020 2019

20 20

252 251

SOURCE: Fibre Box Association

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Advantage Corrugated & Packaging Invests In Third Kolbus Machine With more than a decade in business, Advantage Corru- gated & Packaging, a Hopkins, Minnesota manufacturer and distributor of boxes, is continuing its expansion and growth with a third machine from Kolbus America in three years—an AutoBox AB 300. The firm, which caters to cus- tomers who need cost effective, short and medium run manufacturing for their specially-sized corrugated ship- ping containers, industrial packaging, and point-of-sale, signed the contract in December 2020 and will install its newest investment in early February 2021. Advantage has assembled a diversified base of cus- tomers within the state from the manufacturing industry, to printers, and corrugated brokers. “We offer a wide ar- ray of capabilities and solutions to our customers who require cardboard corrugated packaging,” says Dave Po- boisk, President of Advantage Corrugated. “Our team of employees manufactures everything from small boxes to extra-large boxes many of which do not fit the capabilities of our competition. The new Kolbus machine has the abil- ity to run as large a corrugated sheet as our raw material manufacturer can produce.” The new Kolbus AutoBox AB 300 machine provides Advantage with the flexibility and versatility to produce more than 100 different box styles from one panel folders

to extra large containers. It is the only machine on the mar- ket that can set itself in less than one minute from one job to the next. Operators appreciate its user-friendliness due to its capability of automatically changing box styles and sizes with a touch screen. No tooling is necessary; Advan- tage operators just input the job that they want to run and the AutoBox sets itself in seconds. “Due to the wide variety of box jobs that come to us, we rely on the Kolbus AutoBox to enable us to turn a special- ized job from layout to conversion in a very timely manner,” says Poboisk. Advantage purchased its newest AutoBox machine in December 2020 after having installed the Boxer and Pro-Gluer in 2017. While the firm has seen an upward tra- jectory since it opened its doors in 2009, the current pan- demic and the growth of e-commerce has certainly boost- ed box production due to the need of manufacturers to utilize corrugated boxes to send products. “We didn’t look at any other manufacturers,” says Po- boisk. “Kolbus America has been a wonderful partner. Everyone on its staff—from the sales, technicians, order- ing, and training---are good people. When we need some- thing, they jump. When we have a question, the support staff quickly answers it. Kolbus is a very ethical, receptive operation that has been one of the important reasons that our business keeps growing. Special thanks go out to our customers, employees, vendors, and sales people. With- out them, this purchase could not have been made.”

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Graphic Packaging International Launches ProducePack Paperboard Packaging Solution Atlanta, Georgia based Graphic Packaging International (GPI) has an- nounced the launch of ProducePack, a sustainable paperboard packaging range of solutions for fresh produce. Aligned with Graphic Packaging’s Vision 2025 to be better stewards for the environment, the innovative carton offers brands and retailers an eco-friendly solution for a variety of applications with an artisan look that

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