A Recession and New Challenges
Tags: PAPERBOARD industry; PACKAGING; UNITED States -- Economic conditions
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- Customer Demand Drives Mini-Flute Market. Huck, Charles // Paperboard Packaging;Apr99, Vol. 84 Issue 4, p30
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- Staying Profitable In A Downturn. // Paperboard Packaging;Jan2002, Vol. 87 Issue 1, p10
Discusses the factors the paperboard packaging industry must consider to stay profitable in light of the economic downturn in the United States. Methods of differentiating one's products from other packaging products; Improvement of customer services; Advantage of re-evaluating one's business.
- Recovery with Continuing Problems. Pace, Norma // Paperboard Packaging;Apr2002, Vol. 87 Issue 4, p8
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- An Unfamiliar Recession, An Uneven Recovery. // Paperboard Packaging;Jan2002, Vol. 87 Issue 1, p4
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- Help on The Way for Sputtering Economy. Pace, Norma // Paperboard Packaging;Sep2001, Vol. 86 Issue 9, p6
Reports on the economic status of the paperboard industry in the United States (U.S.) as of September 2001. Revision of estimates of the real gross national product for 2000; Outlook for the paper packaging industry; Findings of the mid-2001 review of factors affecting box demand in the U.S.
- Packaging equipment demand. // Food Engineering;Sep99, Vol. 71 Issue 9, p29
Reports on the increase in demand for packaging equipment in the United States as of September 1999. Data from the Packaging Machinery Manufacturers Institute; Causes of the increase in demand for packaging machinery.
