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BoardConverting Serving the North American Corrugated and Folding Carton Industries for 37 years January 18, 2021 VOL. 37, NO. 3

Converter Outlook 2021, Part 2: It’s A Good Time To Be ‘In Boxes’ Board Converting News continues its traditional feature with three more of the continent’s independent converters as they recap the tu- multuous year that was 2020 and look forward to the possibilities of 2021. Despite the profound business and societal impact of the pan- demic, which was felt by virtually every manufacturer in the world, the converters here, like their fellow box makers did in these pages a week ago, have reinforced the obvious fact that it is a good time to be in the box business. They have shared their business strategies, the occa- sional political analysis and their forecasts on the future of the corru- gated and folding carton industries. They have also raised questions – and provided some answers – for the year that will be 2021: Kruger Packaging Montreal, Quebec, Canada: Serge Desgagnes reports, “Have you ever woken up in the middle of the night in a panic and unsure of your sur-

3D Corrugated Moves Operations From OH To KY 3D Corrugated is beginning 2021 with a new location and new ownership in Covington, Kentucky. Founded in 2012 in Cincinnati, the company is moving to Covington after its operations were taken over by Marty Boyer and Matt Mauser, who also operate Theatre House at that location. 3D Corrugated specializes in corrugat- ed boxes, packing supplies, void fill, tape, and custom-sized pads. Theatre House is an e-commerce and retail theatrical supply com- pany that utilized 3D Corrugated’s services before the acquisition. By operating out of the same location, 3D Corrugated will be able to use Theatre House’s large warehouse. “3D and Theatre House are a lot alike in terms of operations, inventory management and fulfillment, but that is not what made us leap at this opportunity. 3D has been a great partner to Theatre House since we reopened in 2017, and before that too,” said Boyer. “Con- tinuing their commitment to service, brothers Dan and Terry Davis, who founded the com- pany, have personally walked us through their customers and worked with us on the transi- tion in the best way possible. It’s natural for us

roundings? Maybe you’re still dreaming? May- be this isn’t real and you’re still sleeping? That’s what this past year has felt like. A peaceful sleep one night and complete frenzy and un- certainty the next morning. “Prediction and forecasts for 2020 could not have been more inaccurate as the market did a complete 180 in contrast to what the re- searchers said. An independent box plant sur-

Serge Desgagnes

vey was taken from April 27th – May 8th, 2020, to gauge the market opinion from industry experts. I must warn you, the initial predictions were quite frightening. Demand growth expectations for box supply in Q2 and Q3 were... down 6.7 percent. From those who took the survey, 71 percent expected the price to decrease in 2020, 67 percent expect- ed the next price increase to be after 2021 along with 84 percent be- lieving box demand would get worse over the next 6-12 months. Not the most uplifting and hopeful predictions coming into the year. “Here are a couple more forecasted statistics that might surprise you. After Q1, RISI Pulp and Paper Week published box shipments to be up 3.8 percent, while PPM predicted overall box shipments for 2020 to be down 2.92 percent. After 11 months at the end of November 2020, box shipments were up 2.7 percent, which is much better than the forecasted 2.92 percent. Not only were we expecting a significant de- crease in box demand, PPM forecasted a $30 short ton price decrease in 2020, which was far from the $50 price increase we incurred. “Prior to the surge in demand, FBA released April numbers, which

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WHAT’S INSIDE E-Commerce Has Shifted Recycling Responsibilities TAPPI Academy Online Courses Help Corrugated Training 0 AICC To Host New Webinar On ‘Re-Onboarding’ Employees 12 ICPF Launches Inaugural Virtual Student/Exec Dialogue Dinner 6 x x 8 x x 12 x x 26 x x

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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 indi- cated 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 $885.00-890.00 $900.00-910.00 $900.00-910.00 $900.00-910.00 $930.00-940.00 $903.00-912.00

26# Semi-Chem. Medium

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

$820.00-850.00 $835.00-855.00 $835.00-855.00 $835.00-855.00 $865.00-875.00 $838.00-858.00

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

8.34

275# DBL-WALL 350# DBL-WALL

107.46 118.45

114.69 129.32

116.54 137.25 117.82 145.56

141.08

122.76

148.46

131.80

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CANADIAN SHEET PRICES (AVERAGE) In Canadian Dollars, per 1MSF, local delivery included, under 50MSF single item order, truckload delivery. 200# 275# Oyster UC 275#DW 350#DW $78.56 $99.18 $9.00 $96.32 $105.83 CANADIAN LINERBOARD & MEDIUM The average prices reported are tabulated from prices PAID by various sources throughout Canada. Prices may be higher or lower in various areas of the country. 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. Prices are Canadian $ and per metric ton.

42# Kraft Liner 26#

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East West

$920.00 $965.00

$910.00 $945.00

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to continue the awesome customer service, great prices and to pick up the phone for 3D Corrugated customers.” “Rebooting Theatre House, we learned the details of shipping and setting up the right operations for the e-com- merce world. We get to extend that expertise to 3D Corru- gated,” Boyer said. “We get to share our knowledge with other e-commerce providers, manufacturers and produc- ers. It also allows us to get more local with our products and services.” 3D Corrugated also provides customized box sizing, print and storage services and offers same-day delivery or pickup for in stock items throughout the Greater Cincinnati and Northern Kentucky area. Primarily a business-to-business operation but open to the public, 3D’s customers include e-commerce providers, companies in the food service, manufacturing, construc- tion, healthcare, and education sectors, as well as small to mid-sized retail businesses. Because the cost of shipping boxes can be expensive, organizations can reduce costs by working locally with 3D Corrugated because they can order online and pick up at the Covington location. “At Theatre House, we ship all over the world and that is something really special being a company in Coving- ton,” said Mauser. “3D is an exciting opportunity because we get to help people locally while getting to know some of the amazing companies right in our backyard.”

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E-commerce Has Shifted Recycling Responsibilites To Consumers As stated in an article on theverge.com , the fate of card- board and corrugated boxes in the U.S. rests in the hands of consumers more than it ever has been before. In the past, brick-and-mortar retailers handled much of the left- over packaging from shipments. Malls and grocery stores usually send big bales of used but relatively clean card- board (folding cartons) and corrugated to recycling pro- grams so that they can be made into new boxes. Now, the rise of e-commerce, which started before the pandemic, has shifted more responsibility onto shoppers to properly dispose of boxes so that they can be recycled. Boxes are piling up on curbsides instead of at retail stores. The pandemic has only accelerated this shift, which experts expect to continue even after COVID-19 is under

control. One of the largest waste collection companies in the US, Republic Services, saw as much as a 25 percent increase in waste it picked up from households last year — after the volume it picked up from commercial custom- ers dropped by up to 30 percent when pandemic-induced lockdowns began. The company says it’s even had to change its equipment so that it can capture smaller boxes from e-commerce in addition to the larger packaging used to send goods to stores. When paper based packaging winds up at a person’s house instead of at a store, there’s a bigger chance that it could be tossed in the trash or otherwise become too dirty to recycle. “The concern is that when you have more [cardboard] transitioning to the home, it becomes more of an individual choice for consumers whether they recycle it,” says Rachel Kenyon, Senior Vice President at the Fibre Box Association, a trade group representing packaging manufacturers. “We really want to encourage consumers

to recycle because we do need that fiber back. It does help make another box again.” The corrugated cardboard used to ship the things people buy in stores and online is remarkably salvageable. Virgin card- board can be recycled to make more of the same material up to seven times. Once the fiber degrades, it can be used to make paperboard, which is used in things like ce- real boxes. The average box now contains about 50 percent recycled material, accord- ing to Kenyon. Recycling is no substitute for cutting down on waste in the first place, and online retailer behemoths still have a lot of work to do on that front. But cardboard has a much higher recycling rate compared to other packaging materials. The overall recycling rate for materials, including paper, glass, and plastics, in the US was about 32 per- cent in 2018, according to the Environmen- tal Protection Agency. The recycling rate for cardboard boxes, on the other hand, has hovered close to 90 percent since 2011. To keep those rates high, the cardboard industry will need shoppers to recycle the increasing number of boxes from the record amounts of box shipments made during the pandemic, according to Kenyon. By last November, the containerboard packaging industry saw a 3.6 increase in production, according to the American Forest & Paper Association. In the past couple of years, new paper mills have already come online, and others are on the way. The demand for more box- es — fueled by a pandemic-driven boom in e-commerce — is also helping once-strug- gling recycling programs stay afloat.

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

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

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

2020 2019

2.6756 2.5847

3.5

30.3291 29.7345

2.0

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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AICC To Host New Webinar On ‘Re-Onboarding’ Employees

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ICPF Launches Inaugural Virtual Student/Executive Dialogue Dinner

In response to the coronavirus pandemic, the International Corrugated Packaging Foundation (ICPF) has taken its ongoing Student /Executive Di- alogue Dinner Series to a virtual platform. The first ICPF virtual dialogue dinner was conducted on December 16, 2020, when more than 35 stu- dents from 10 universities across the country -- with education and interest in packaging engineering & production, sales, packaging design, graph- ic design, chemical engineering, supply chain management and related fields -- participated. The students were joined by corrugated packaging

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