According to TAPPI President Larry N. Montague more than 5,000 industry representatives from more than 50 countries preregistered and many more were registered on-site. For exhibitors, SuperCorrExpo is more than just a sales opportunity. The ratio of machinery per square foot may indeed make this one of the largest corrugated container industry show in the world as 316 exhibitors occupy about 130,000 sq ft of floor space. It is also interesting to note that approximately 2.3 million pounds of freight arrived at the hall, making this exhibition one of the top five “most dense” shows ever held at the Georgia World Congress Center. The event actually kicked off two days earlier with a two-day Lean Manufacturing
course which was taught by Dick Target, On Target Consultants on Saturday and Sunday. Both TAPPI and AICC, who are co-hosting the exposition, held their annual meetings at the Georgia World Congress Center in conjunction with the exposition. Over 90,000 sq. ft. of space has already been sold for the next SuperCorrExpo event, so mark your calendars for Oct 1-5, 2012 in Atlanta!

TAPPI Conference Wrap-up

AICC/TAPPI 2008 SuperCorrExpo event in Atlanta, Georgia, September 22-26 2008 was attended by more than 5,000
pre-registrants and many more onsite visitors, it was a very successful event! Attendees had the benefit of visiting 316
exhibits, including 130,000 square feet of technology, machinery and products.

The TAPPI Corrugated Packaging Conference was opened on Sunday evening with a reception at the Hard Rock Café in
downtown Atlanta. This was a great networking opportunity for all attendees, and was also the venue for the 2008
Corrugated Packaging Division award ceremony. This year's recipient of the David A. Carlson Leadership and Service Award was Madeleine Crawford, Harper Machinery Corporation (retired). David Lauderbaugh, President of Corrugated Gear and Services Inc., received the Division Technical Award and Harry J. Bettendorf Prize.

Program highlights
James Hannan , President & CEO, Georgia Pacific delivered the keynote address on how Georgia Pacific Corporation approaches Sustainability. Other topics of interest included a session chaired by Richard White of MarquipWardUnited, also on sustainability. Energy in the boxplants is always a key issue, and Tuesday's session chaired by Jeff Pallini of
Fosber America focused on specific opportunities to reduce energy consumption. A panel of industry experts fielded questions from the audience after the presentations. This panel included Jim Simko, Simtek Systems; Bud Stickle, Stickle Steam Specialties Company; John Donahue, Donahue & Associates; and Art Ragauskus, IPST at Georgia.
Pete Snyder of Harper/Love Adhesives moderated the panel. The Tuesday session was preceded by the presentation of awards to outgoing committee chairs: Rhonda Nichols, International Paper, Corbotec Committee and Steve Woodard, ARC International, Supplier Advisory Committee. Three scholarship winners were also recognized: MHI Scholarship - Douglas Mehlenbacher; Bobst Scholarship - Amber Bruk; and John O. Telesca Scholarship - Margaret Gerhart. Congratulations to all of our award recipients and thank you to our generous contributors.

CorrPak winners

On Wednesday morning, the winners of the 2008 CorrPak Competition were recognized and the winners of the Corbie Awards were announced. Packaging Services won the Corbie Best in Show in the Structure Category for its Bull Frog Quarter Pallet. Chief Container won the Corbie Best in Show in the Printing Category with its entry, HP Pallet Skirt 2 PC.
Clemson University won the Student Entry Award with its Clemson Jane wine box entry. Attendees Favorite in the Structure category went to Packaging Services for the Bull Frog Quarter Pallet, and Attendees Favorite in the Printing
Category went to Calpine Corrugated LLC for the Kingsburg Orchards Flavor Farmer. Congratulations to the winners in all categories and to all of the 95 participants. Photos of all entries are posted on the TAPPI website. Special thanks go out to Cordes Procher, Packaging Corp or America for his tireless efforts to make this competition a success and to the judges who volunteered their time.