Advocacy

Scholarships generously donated from Jerry Murdock Our President, Jerry Murdock has generously donated to scholarship funds at his alma mater, High Point University. Jerry is an alumnus of High Point, graduating from High Point College in 1962. He and his wife Joan are pledging the money to the Jerry W. and Joan S. Murdock Endowed Scholarship...

Among the many issues that affect packing products companies, packaging waste remains a major one. According to Waste Management World, the European Union has set a target to send zero plastic waste to landfills by 2020. This latest surge to reduce packaging waste comes as the continent sees its landfill material easily reducible. The news source...

What do the numbers 500 million, 2 billion, 7.6 billion, and $6 billion have in common with the supply chain? Give up? Wood pallets. Each year, we produce 500 million new wooden pallets and on any given day there are 2 billion wooden pallets in circulation.  Approximately 7.6 billion board feet of lumber is used annually to build these...

In honor of Veteran's Day on Wednesday, I thought it appropriate to take a minute to thank them for their service. But since this is also a blog dedicated to packaging, I figured that I'd find something packaging related to talk about too. So, I ran across an article about the US Army working on a redesign of MRE packaging. MREs are Meals Ready to Eat...