John Nocero

As he began his keynote address to the approximately 570 attendees at the Association of Independent Corrugated Converters (AICC) Annual Spring Meeting, March 26-29 at the Hyatt Regency Hill Resort in San Antonio, Texas, speaker Jim Collins reflected back to 1940's Battle of Britain.

A customer is waiting in a long checkout line at her local grocery store. As she begins loading the items from her shopping cart onto the conveyor belt, flashes of blue and red off a folding carton displayed nearby catchs her eye.

Mike Fiterman, president and owner of Liberty Diversified Industries (LDI), Minneapolis, Minn., doesn't consider his company great.

For some time the Mexican corrugated market has been affecting the North American manufacturing base.

The extraordinary beverage has an extraordinary carton in the new TURI sampler box, manufactured by Wright Brothers Paper Box Co., Hialeah, Fla.

Collegiate basketball teams playing for the NCAA basketball championships share something in common this time of year with many box plants: if you can't solve your production problems, you are doomed to fail. But on the basketball court, it takes five fouls before a player is disqualified.

Ten timeless principles must be recognized.

In the challenging and uncertain economic climate that box plants are currently operating in, just being “good” is no guarantee of continued success.

An Open Basket Carrier (OBC) is most commonly used for six-packs of imported premium beer and super premium beer in the United States. The OBC you carry out of grocery stores for a frolicking Friday evening is now lighter and stronger, thanks to inventor and converter A&R Carton, headquartered in...more >>

According to Chris Heusch, president of ARCH, Inc., a Salt Lake City-based consulting firm, a paradigm shift is developing in the corrugated container industry that is changing the relationship between machinery manufacturers and converters and requiring machinery suppliers to change the way they...more >>