Can-Am Chapter Corrugated Program
Thursday, November 5, 2026
7:30 AM - 11:45 AM (EST)
Category: Chapter
The Winter Defence: Defeating the Dry Air & Board Cracking
Program: Just like our hands and lips, the cold weather and dry air brings cracking issues to paper and challenges to the corrugated industry and converters.
Join the IADD Can-Am Chapter for breakfast and an informative presentation on corrugated board and winter challenges.
Presenters: David Crouch, Senior Quality Manager & Joe Skulj, Technical Services Leader of Atlantic Packaging
Topics:
- High level overview of how paper is made.
- Discussion of the condition of the furnish (recycled) material in the waste stream
- Recycled liners compared to virgin liners
- Different types of paper making machines and their characteristics
- What the mill measures in the paper compared to box makers
- Application and characteristics of starch in the paper
- Mullen vs ECT
- How corrugators should be running the recycled paper
- High-performance liners/lower basis weights
- Basis weights of papers vs their strengths
- Conversion of corrugated board
Agenda
| November 5 | |
| 7:30 AM - 8:30 AM | Continental breakfast |
| 8:30 AM - 8:45 AM | Registration |
| 8:45 AM - 9:00 AM | Introductions and IADD news |
| 9:00 AM - 10:30 AM | Main presentation: David Crouch & Joe Skulj of Atlantic Packaging |
| 10:30 AM - 10:45 AM | Short break and tabletop samples of corrugated, rotary die and matrix |
| 10:45 AM - 11:30 AM | Q&A with David Crouch and Joe Skulj, with Luke Sternberg of Diecor |
| 11:30 AM - 11:45 AM | Closing remarks |
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