Members in AICC’s Region 2, covering the Pacific Northwest, met in Richmond, British Columbia, July 10-11, to tour a state of the art produce grower and packing facility and discuss planning for better outcomes of sales negotiation. Read More....

Have you noticed an increase in requests for explanations about Sustainability Certifications? Is this a trend you are experiencing?

How do you respond to requests such as these from your customers? What can you do to validate your message regarding Sustainable Packaging?

As part of AICC’s commitment to provide you with answers and resources that can help you educate your sales people and your customers, AICC is offering its first Sustainability Webinar regarding the various paper certifications that exist.

The next "early" bird registration deadline for the meeting is Friday, August 22, 2008. Register early to save! Read more....

See who is already planning to attend the upcoming AICC 2008 Annual Meeting. AICC 2008 Annual Meeting - Attendee List

On Thursday, September 25, the AICC 2008 Annual Meeting will feature an industry presentation by Mr. Lou Sardella, Founder and Chairman of Sun Automation Group. Mr. Sardella will address how entrepreneurial spirit and independent passion have played a key role in Sun Automation's success as an independent equipment supplier and discuss steps Independents, regardless of the industry they serve, must take to ensure growth and continuity in their businesses and future succession. click here.

During the 2008 Production Managers Forum you will review processes and procedures that focus on attaining production goals, company goals and assure customer satisfaction. Production managers will learn skills required to maximize machine through-put consistent with good quality while maintaining the integrity of the production schedule. In addition, we will discuss the value of profitable orders vs. easy-to-run orders. (We call this developing a company-wide perspective) It is important that every key manager understands his role and how his actions impact the total company…For further details, click here.

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AICC will offer an optional off-site event that includes a tour of The NEW World of Coca Cola and a behind the scenes tour of "Inside CNN Atlanta" on Thursday, September 25, 2008 from 1:30 pm - 5:00 pm. Don't miss this opportunity to meet two of Atlanta brightest stars.Read more....

Enhance your visibility and make the most of your show experience by becoming a SuperCorrExpo 2008 Sponsor. Sponsorships provide another opportunity to put your company and product name in front of the customer. To read more click here.

Basic Supervisory & Leadership Training will be held in September in Toronto, Ontario on September 9 and 10, 2008. This day-and-half program gives new supervisors and those more experienced who would like to brush up on their skills an understanding of supervisory principles and practices in the areas of communication, leadership, discipline, motivation, team building, and problem solving. Read More.

Offered in partnership with the International Corrugated Packaging Foundation (ICPF) and the Fox Valley Technical College, this is a two day intensive workshop on digital pre-press and processes that impact design.

This event will cover digital workflows, coordination of the various production components, equipment utilized, and include live on-site demonstrations. The workshop is intended for structural and graphic designers, customer service, pre-production, production, supervision, and line management people from corrugated box and display makers/

Based on a growing level of interest among our members AICC is forming a Marketing Special Interest group as a test to meet special interests among our members and their employees. This group will be limited to 30 slots. The group will meet monthly by conference call with a topic of interest relevant to Marketing. Topics will be determined by the group after the initial call. click here.

With the sustainability focus clearly upon us and the resulting incentives to use lighter-weight liners and mediums to achieve your customers’ sustainability goals, the need to measure and report on sheet properties before and after converting has never been stronger. To help establish some baseline data we are conducting an ECT degradation study. This study, the protocol for which is documented in the following pages, will be a confidential comparison of your product conducted by independent test labs under TAPPI test procedures. Read More....