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The Source for News and Pricing Volume 88, Number 20 May 19, 2012

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Walmart Scorecard Helps Cut Packaging

Walmart’s buyers are now being iven sustainability goals for the product lines they rep- resent and have consider- able influence on how those products are packaged and displayed, said Ron Sasine, the giant retailer’s senior director of private label packaging, at the company’s seventh annual Sustainability Expo, held the week of May 7 in Rogers, Ark.

Walmart buyers are increasingly making their purchasing decisions based on information they get from the scorecard, reports Packaging Digest.

At a recent meeting of Walmart’s Packaging Supplier Value Network, the company

Norampac Mill
Workers Concede

emphasized packaging sustainability as a way to make its operations more efficient. The group included leaders at Walmart and those from supplier companies, academia, government, and nongovernment organizations.

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Transacted Containerboard Prices

Average transacted price levels are tabulated by obtaining paid prices from independent converters purchasing linerboard and medium. All prices are intended as a reference standard only. Transactions may be concluded at any time at any price agreed upon by seller and purchaser. These are delivered prices for week ended previous Tuesday. Price ranges listed are per short ton.

Northeast 42#Fourd.KraftLinerboard $550–560 $550–560 $550–560 $550–560 $575–585

Kraft Linerboard Upcharges (Nationwide):

26#: $50/ton 33#: $30/ton

31#: HP* $30/ton 35# HP: $25/ton 57# HP: $20/ton Recycled:

35#: HP Recycled: $30/ton

East Central Southeast/
South Central
North
Central
West

Unionized workers at Norampac’s Trenton, Ontario, corrugating medium mill ratified a new collective agreement last week.

The company said last month it would close the mill June 1, unless the union agreed to its demands. Workers had previously voted twice and rejected the offer both times, the Belleville Intelligencer reports. As of press time, there was no official response from Norampac.

“We did what we needed to
do,” says Dave Moffat, Ontario
region vice president of the
Communications Energy and
Papermakers Union (CEP). “We
are anticipating the company
will remove its closure notice
and expect it will happen soon.
We ratified the offer on the
table. We have taken all the
steps necessary to keep the
mill open. It’s in the company’s
ballpark now.”
At stake are about 130
jobs at the mill.