Valuable packaging tips at DistriPakUSA

Bill Armstrong of Sealed Air Corp will deliver an address

Bill Armstrong, Technical Development Manager from Sealed Air Corp.

located in Danbury, CT, will be the guest speaker at DistriPakUSA at 8:00 a.m., Friday, October 6th, before trade show hours.

Admission to Armstrong's speech is FREE with each DistriPakUSA or trade show badge.

DistriPakUSA is launching its first annual trade show on October 4-7, 2006 (Exhibit Days: October 5-7) in Chicago's McCormick Place (South hall) and is solely dedicated to the industrial and food packaging distribution channel.

Bill Frohlich, President of NPTA Alliance, said, "We could not be more pleased to have one of the packaging industry's leading experts at our new show".

"DistriPakUSA attendees will gain a great deal from the experience and insights that Bill has about this industry.

The NPTA Alliance is the hosting association for DistriPakUSA, the industrial and food packaging trade show.

Armstrong's presentation will focus on packaging on incoming goods imported from global sources and performance based packaging, establishing requirements measuring effectiveness.

His presentation will allow attendees to fully explore and learn about packaging and the impact of global sources to it.

He brings to DistriPakUSA a wealth of experience in packaging, working for Sealed Air Corp.

since 1981, in many different capacities in Product Development, Special Projects, Marketing, Package Design and in his present position, as Technical Development Manager.

Mr.Armstrong has many varied professional accomplishments from industry organizations.

He is the immediate Past President of ISTA (International Safe Transit Association) and is a current member of their Board of Directors.

He is also a past National President for the Society of Packaging and Handling Engineers (SPHE) and a past Board Member of the Packaging Education Foundation.

Over the years, Armstrong has acquired quite an impressive amount of honors/awards.

Highlighting these include being named to the Packaging Education Forum's Packaging Hall of Fame in 2003, being an active member of the Michigan State University School of Packaging Alumni Hall of Fame, and in 1992 earning an Annual Achievement Award in Packaging from the National Institute of Packaging, Handling and Logistics Engineers' (NIPHLE).

He has also earned a B.S.

from Michigan State University School of Packaging in 1968.

About DistriPakUSA DistriPakUSA is an annual trade show located in the United States, with its inaugural show taking place on October 4-7, 2006 at McCormick Place, Chicago, Illinois (South Hall).

DistriPakUSA is the only trade show concentrated on the industrial and food packaging distribution channel.

It is being co-located with ISSA/INTERCLEAN, the leading trade show in the jan/san industry.

For more information, visit www.distripakusa.com.

About the NPTA Alliance The NPTA Alliance, founded in 1903 as the National Paper Trade Association, inc., is the Association for the $60+ billion paper, packaging, and supplies distribution industry.

NPTA's mission is to promote the success of its members by providing value that they can deliver to customers.

The Association is structured into four divisions: Paper Division including Printing and Imaging markets; Packaging Division including Industrial markets; Supplies Division covering jan/san and foodservice markets; and the Young Leaders Division.

The NPTA Alliance has more than 1,200 member locations and its official publication, Paper and Packaging magazine, (formerly Distribution Sales and Management) is received by nearly 50,000 readers.

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