February 9, 2009
CONTACT: ICPF
INNERPAC, INC. PLEDGES $50,000.00
TO THE INTERNATIONAL CORRUGATED PACKAGING FOUNDATION
February 9, 2009
Alexandria, VA . . . The International Corrugated Packaging Foundation (ICPF) announced today that that new CorrAlliance Partner, Innerpac Inc. has pledged $50,000 to support the International Corrugated Packaging Foundation.
"We are pleased to support the educational and recruitment initiatives conducted by the International Corrugated Packaging Foundation,” said Gene Marino, Jr., President and CEO of Innerpac. "This past year, I personally had the opportunity to see the value of ICPF's efforts when I was invited to serve as one of the industry panel speakers during the ninth annual Careers in Corrugated Teleconference broadcasted live to 15 packaging and graphic design schools across the country.
" ICPF Chairman Mike D'Angelo of the Bobst Group commented, "Innerpac is the best kind of partner to welcome to the ICPF CorrAlliance because it has invested both precious time and resources to the important mission of ICPF. We're grateful to Gene for speaking at the Teleconference and for following that up with a pledge."
Innerpac is a leading innovator and manufacturer of specialty custom corrugated and chipboard partitions in the United States. Products and services include corrugated interior packaging, corrugated partitions, chipboard partitions, protective packaging, recycled packaging alternatives and custom packaging design services. Since its founding in Cicero, Illinois 1986, Innerpac has grown to five manufacturing facilities across the country, which includes locations in El Paso, Texas and Keene, New Hampshire, and most recently Sante Fe Springs and Stockton, California with its September 2008 acquisition of Bar-A-Enterprises.
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Co-sponsored by the Association of Independent Corrugated Converters and the Fibre Box Association,ICPF's mission is to generate a stream of increasingly qualified students to enter the corrugated industry, now and into the future. ICPF is dedicated to the continued creation and building of partnerships within the education community, the granting of equipment and other resources to advance curriculum, the expansion of student internships within the industry, and the promotion of corrugated packaging career opportunities for packaging, business management, accounting, engineering, marketing, graphic design, architecture / structural design and tech graduates.
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