February 2, 2017
ICPF’s ninth Holiday Weekend in New York was enjoyed by 55 couples who celebrated the season while supporting ICPF’s educational initiatives. The 44 participating companies, as well as weekend sponsors, were recognized for their support by Steve Landaal, ICPF Chair 2015–2016.
ICPF wishes to thank the 2016 registrants and sponsors for making the ninth annual Holiday Weekend in New York the most successful to date. Both the number of participants and the level of funds raised for ICPF’s educational initiatives exceeded the records set in the previous year. Established in 2007, the annual New York supports ICPF initiatives.
The 2016 event sponsors included Pratt Industries, sponsor of the Friday opening reception at The View; BW Papersystems, sponsor of the Saturday Broadway matinee performance of On Your Feet!; Bobst North America, sponsor of the Saturday reception and dinner at the 21 Club; and Equipment Finance Corporation, Fosber America, and Gerber Innovations, which sponsored ICPF’s holiday gifts for participants. Additional sponsors included Mid-Atlantic Packaging, Progress Container & Display, Smurfit Kappa, and Serenity Packaging.
Corporate registrants included Akers Packaging, American Packaging, Amtech, Atlas Container, Bay Cities, Bobst North America, Buckeye Corrugated Inc., BW Papersystems, Cascades Containerboard Packaging, CEL Chemical, Equipment Finance Corporation, EFI, Fitzpatrick Container, Foley & Lardner, Fosber America, Gerber Innovations, Green Bay Packaging, Greif, Haire Group, Huston Patterson, Interstate Resources Inc., JB Machinery, J.M. Fry Printing Inks, KapStone Paper & Packaging, Kiwiplan, Kruger, Landaal Packaging, Liberty Diversified International, Mid-Atlantic Packaging, Moore Packaging, Packaging Corporation of America, PackageX Inc., Pratt Industries, Progress Container & Display, Serenity Packaging, Smurfit Kappa, StandFast Packaging, Sumter Packaging, Testing Machines Inc., Wasatch Container, WestRock, AICC, and FBA.
Jeff and Janice Chalovich (WestRock) served as co-chairs of this past December’s weekend event.
Mark your calendar for the next Holiday Weekend in New York, which is scheduled for December 8–10, 2017.
For more information, contact ICPF at info@icpfbox.org, 703-549-8580, or visit www.careersincorrugated.org.
Richard Flaherty is president of the International Corrugated Packaging Foundation.
