Corrugated Packaging Seminar

• Containerboard Grades
• Containerboard Manufacturing
• Corrugated Board, Production, Applications
• Characteristics and Performance
• Business Development, Sales, and Service
• Design, Labeling, and Graphics
• Printing and Converting

• Board Grades and Combined Products
• Manufacturing Effects
• Characteristic Test Comparisons
• Packaging Design
• Prepress
• Printing Comparisons
• Die Cutting and Scoring

Individuals involved in package design, sales, specification, purchasing, scheduling, quality control, and production management. This seminar is appropriate for all levels of experience.

"Networking and seminar content are fantastic."

"Great to understand production process from corrugator to convertor."

"This course is a great overview for someone entering this industry."

"I could immediately tell how passionate the presenters were and that makes all the difference in my ability to learn."

"The breakouts were great, the detailed info on each topic, slides, and examples of real-world application and issues."

"I enjoyed the personal aspect of the training. It was an intimate environment but still presenting a wealth of information."

Dan Malenke, Ph.D., is an accomplished practitioner, solutions provider, and author/educator with extensive coast-to-coast and international experience in leading technology-rich seminars for the printing and packaging industries. He is particularly adept at creating synchronous courses of study from highly fragmented parts. As Principal, PKGPRO, LLC, Dan holds degrees in Printing Education and Industrial Training & Development from Univ. Wisconsin-Stout and the Univ. of Minnesota.

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Location: Harris A. Smith Auditorium

Day 1

8 a.m. - Introductions and Program Overview

8:10 a.m. - Industry overview: A scope and size description of the North America and Global Container Board and Corrugated Packaging Industries.

8:25 a.m. - Container board grades: An introduction to liner board and medium materials common to corrugated packaging.

9:30 a.m. - Break, Group Photo

9:45 a.m. - Container board manufacturing: Board manufacturing, including harvesting operations, planting, transportation and mill operations.

10:30 a.m. - Corrugated board and applications + breakout: Combined materials including single face, single wall, double wall, triple wall, flutes and combinations.

12 p.m. - Lunch + Sonoco Institute Tour

1 p.m. - Corrugated board production: An introduction to corrugator systems, including roll stands, single facer, doublebacker, gluing, slitting, scoring, cutoff, and stacking. Attention is given to adhesives, water, mechanics of the bond and prominent defects.

2 p.m. - Stretch Break

2:10 p.m. - Characteristics of containerboard and combined board: Descriptions and hands-on application of the most relevant process and product quality control testing for appearance, surface and physical properties.

3:50 p.m. - Stretch Break

4 p.m. - Packaging performance: Box performance factors include material selection, design elements, best practices and environmental effects.

4:50 p.m. - Summary, Review

5 p.m. - Adjourn

Day 2

8 a.m. - Announcements, Review

8:10 a.m. - Structural design + breakout: A description of collaborative design, including physical, functional, and marketing aspects; steps in design and prototyping; classical box styles and award-winning concepts.

9:30 a.m. - Break

9:45 a.m. - Package labeling: The appropriate use of information placed on boxes, including claims, certifications and seals of approval.

10:10 a.m. - Pre-press: Graphic design, image assembly, color separation, proofing systems, digital screening and extended gamut.

10:40 a.m. - Corrugated package printing: Descriptions and application of flexography for corrugated boxes.

11 a.m. - Stretch Break

11:10 a.m. - Printing (cont'd.): Offset Lithography, Gravure

12 p.m. - Lunch + ISTA Test Lab Tour

1:30 p.m. - Printing (cont'd.) Digital Print

2:30 p.m. - Die cutting, scoring and finishing: The equipment, tools, and techniques used to convert printed corrugated board into user-ready boxes.

3:20 p.m. - Summary, Review

3:30 p.m. - Adjourn

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