Paperboard Boot Camp Brings Millennials, New Hires Into the Fold
The Paperboard Packaging Council’s (PPC) Folding Carton Boot Camp, next taking place on June 9-10, 2015, in Springfield, Mass., works to provide Millennials and other new packaging professionals with a comprehensive understanding of the design and manufacture of sustainable paperboard packaging.
The intensive, two-day workshop covers the entire folding carton production process, from certified forest all the way to the store shelf. First, industry experts explain the papermaking process and also describe the properties and application of inks and coatings. Prepress processes like CAD, layout, and graphics are explained in simple terms, as are a variety of others including tooling, embossing, foil stamping, stripping, finishing, gluing and windowing. The curriculum concludes with an assessment of automated packaging equipment. Participants leave the seminar with a certificate of achievement as well as a resource binder including samples of different board types.