BW Papersystems Becomes ICPF's Most Recent Corporate Partner

Alexandria, VA . . . The International Corrugated Packaging Foundation (“ICPF”) has announced that BW Papersystems has become ICPF's most recent corporate partner by making a financial pledge to support the foundation's educational and student outreach initiatives. 
  
"BW Papersystems. has been well aware of ICPF's successful work with universities and students across the country for a long time", said Neal McConnellogue, President of BW Papersystems. "Through ICPF, hundreds of students annually learn about corrugated packaging careers. We plan to immediately begin using ICPF’s career portal and other resources to acquire entry level engineers and programmers.  Already we have seen several potential matches in the portal’s resume bank." 

ICPF Chairman, Jeff Chalovich (WestRock) welcomed BW Papersystems  as an ICPF corporate partner and thanked Neal for the corporation's pledge. "For six or seven years, BW Papersystems has supported ICPF through serving as a sponsor and participant in the annual Holiday Weekend in New York.  During a dinner meeting recently with Neal and his team in Indianapolis, I was pleased to learn that BW Papersystems wished to take the next step of making a financial pledge commitment to become a formal ICPF Corporate Partner." 

ICPF Vice Chairman Andy Pierson added that BW Papersystems has been a long term player in the corrugated packaging industry and will be a great addition to ICPF’s corporate Partnership. I initially approached Miles Fletcher and Neal knowing that an ICPF corporate partnership would be a great fit for them and for our education foundation.

BW Papersystems (BWP) brings together 11 brands—BW Bielomatik (BWB), BWP Zerand, Curioni, JAG SYNCHRO, K&H, Kugler-Womako, MarquipWardUnited (MWU), SHM, VortX, WillPemcoBielomatik (WPB) and Wrapmatic—that synthesize manufacturing in the paper process industries. BWP offers market-leading technology for full corrugators in a variety of configurations, rugged rotary die cutters and flexo folder gluers, as well as starch-mixing systems. The firm offers folio-size, cut-size and digital-size sheeting and packaging of paper, board and other materials.

For more information visit: www.bwpapersystems.com and www.careersincorrugated.org or contact info@icpfbox.org.

The International Corrugated Packaging Foundation (ICPF) mission is to generate a stream of increasingly qualified students to enter the corrugated packaging and display industry, now and into the future. ICPF is dedicated to the continued creation and building of partnerships within the education community, the advancement of corrugated curriculum, the expansion of student internships within the industry and the promotion of corrugated packaging & displays career opportunities for packaging science, packaging design, graphic design, sales & marketing, business, chemical engineering, mechanical engineering, industrial engineering, supply chain management, technical and related graduates.

Source: International Corrugated Packaging Foundation (ICPF)