RECYCLED & NATURAL MOLDED FIBER PACKAGING IS A RENEWABLE RESOURCE CONTRIBUTING TO SUSTAINABILITY

MOLDED FIBER INDUSTRY NEWS
Updated May 1, 2009

• IMFA continues to provide those interested in using molded fiber packaging with general information and sources of products without charges or obligations. Contact us
  
  
• The overall molded fiber product industry is reporting good sales with order backlogs in spite of the economic slowdown.

• IMFA's "12th International Molded Fiber Product Seminar" was held in March at the Crown Plaza Riverwalk Hotel in San Antonio, TX USA. The seminar was well-attended and included molded fiber industry leaders from eight countries. Papers were presented by ten speakers, including: Edward Soltys of Georgia Pacific Chemicals; Tian Chengtai of Donggan Huida Packaging; Edward Church of ISTA; Nathan Whitmore of Oliver Products Inc.; Chris Lo of Tooling Artworks Ltd.; John Hunt of the US Forest Products Laboratory; John Taljaard of Southern Pulp Machinery Ltd.; Mark Ocock of Allied Development Inc.; Paul Schutes of The Recycled Paperboard Alliance and Bill Noble of EnviroPak Inc.
  
  
• The "13th Molded Fiber Product Seminar" is being planned for September 2010 in Europe.

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• Why Use
  MOLDED FIBER PACKAGING?
  
• Four basic types of molded fiber products

• RECYCLED and RECYCLABLE
  waste paper
• BIODEGRADABLE
• COMPOSTABLE
• Easily incinerated
• Reduced material going to landfills
• No toxic wastes in manufacturing process
• Renewable resource
• IMFA Board of Advisors

• A new recyclable fiber display package design was introduced at the Walmart Expo in April, 2008

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• As a member of the Walmart Sustainable Value Network Steering committee, IMFA supports the environmental initiatives of the Walmart company and the molded fiber industry.
  
  
• New molded fiber product manufacturers and capacity upgrades now are:
  
       Hurley Packaging of Texas in Lubbock, TX USA

     Coastal Products of Vineland, CA USA

     Fiberform Inc. of Monroe, LA USA

     Cullen Packaging of Glagow, Scotland

     others pending 

• MFA exhibited molded fiber products from worldwide sources at the PMMI Pack-Expo in Chicago in November of 2008 and plan to exhibit at Pack-Expo in Las Vegas, NV USA in November of 2009.