IPS President donates to scholarships at High Point University
06 May

IPS President donates to scholarships at High Point University

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...
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Packaging waste remains major concern among industry leaders
01 May

Packaging waste remains major concern among industry leaders

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...
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Supply chain sustainability: save money and Mother Earth
15 Nov

Supply chain sustainability: save money and Mother Earth

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...
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Sustaining service men and women around the world: packaging the food that feeds our troops
08 Nov

Sustaining service men and women around the world: packaging the food that feeds our troops

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...
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