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C&BR products begin on p26. N EW SE C Reporter Carton & Box Folding Cartons | Set-Up & Corrugated Boxes | Gable-Top Cartons | Aseptic Cartons | TI O N ! CorrExpo Keeps Boxmakers in the Race By Claudia Hine, Managing Editor INDIANAPOLIS, IN | CorrExpo 2007, TAPPI’s Corrugated Packaging Conference, was held October 30–November 1 at the Indianapolis Convention Center. “Racing to a Stronger Tomorrow” was the theme of the conference, which included more than 700 participants and 145 tabletop exhibits. Bob Cantu, national account manager for Sun Chemical’s Paper Packaging Group, won the Division Technical Award and Harry J. Bettendorf Prize, the highest technical honor bestowed by the Corrugated Technical Div. Cantu has made dozens of presentations at TAPPI conferences. This year, Cantu and Sun Chemical’s Charles Hague spoke on improving productivity with pH stable inks. The Leadership & Service Award went to Davide Friedman, senior packaging scientist at General Mills, to recognize his dedication to the division. Robb Trippsmith won the Lifetime Achievement Award for a career spanning more than 40 years including stints at Jefferson Smurfit and Betz Paperchem. Motivational speaker Joel Weldon, Joel H. Weldon & Assoc., offered two keynote addresses to energize attendees. In the first he provided tips on how to adapt to a changing environment. In the second he offered idea stimulators to generate creativity in the workplace. Technical sessions were divided into Converting/Converting Maintenance and Corrugating/ Corrugating Maintenance tracks. Attendees heard presentations by, among others, Jean Jackson, Allison Systems, who provided information on doctor blades and how they react with anilox rolls, and Cordes Porcher, Packaging Corp. of America, and Scott Gilbert, Smurfit Stone Container, who explained how and why to fingerprint your press. WWW.PFFC-ONLINE.COM AICC Names Year’s Best Boxes ALEXANDRIA, VA | The Assn. of Independent Corrugated Converters (AICC) held its 13th Intl. Corrugated Packaging Design Competition in Minneapolis, MN, October 10–12. From a total of 175 entries submitted by 35 member companies, awards were announced in 19 categories. Here is a look at a few of the winners. For more information visit www.aicc.org. Judges Choice Award–Structural 2 | The Box Maker Inc., Kent, WA, earns the Judges Choice Award for structure for its radome shipping container, which was entered in the category of Innovative Structural Design/Industrial Focus. The converter was required to package the 70-lb radome unit 1 without the use of foam materials, and all packaging mateJudges Choice Award–Graphics rial had to be environmentally friendly. 1 | Allpak Container and sister company “We were able to incorporate Esko’s Trojan Lithograph Corp., Renton, WA, Artios CAD 3-D module throughout the created a world-class container for World design process,” the company reports. Class Apples, earning the Judges Choice “The physical unit was not available. Instead, we were able to use the supplied Award for graphics. Entered in the category of Direct Print on Combined Board, 3-D model of the radome and intersect Allpak reports its customer, CMYK that model with our packaging in 3-D Media, supplied the artwork, which space. The result was a package design consisted of digital files set up as process that fit the radome precisely. It passed the color builds (all images and text). shipping test conducted by customer.” The wood background images were converted from CMYK to two spot colors to minimize fluting and colorshift issues, especially in the highlighted areas. This also allowed the fruit images to be independent when making press adjustments. One of the two spot colors utilized was darkened to achieve the customer’s approval for text outlines and to provide a deeper tone to the shadow areas of the wood images. Process colors were run at 85 lpi using 550 lpi/2.8 bcm anilox rolls; the two spot colors were run at 65 lpi using 330 lpi/6.0 bcm anilox rolls to 2 achieve proper density for wood textures. DECEMBER 2007 | 25 http://www.aicc.org http://WWW.PFFC-ONLINE.COM

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