Our Mexico Region 14 meeting will take place in the NH Monterrey Hotel in the beautiful city of Monterrey, Mexico.

AICC Mexico will hold its seventh annual meeting April 24-25, 2008, at the NH Monterrey Hotel, Monterrey, Mexico, announced by Juan Javier Gonzalez, President of Cajas y Empaques Modernos in Mexico City and Regional Director for AICC Mexico.

The two-day program will feature specialized training for sales and production managers. In addition a plant tour to Cajas de Carton Sultana, S.A. de C.V., followed by several key industry speakers, and a trade fair sponsored by AICC Mexico’s supplier members is scheduled.

We recently finished our AICC Mexico 08 Meeting Web Site which has the meeting program, hotel information, speaker list, and online registration

Basic Supervisory & Leadership Training was held last week at Sound Packaging in Chandler, Arizona. This day-and-half program gives new supervisors and those more experienced who would like to brush up on their skills an understanding of supervisory principles and practices in the areas of communication, leadership, discipline, motivation, team building, and problem solving. The instructor for the course was Dean Mitchell, President of TMG, who has over 35 years experience in the corrugated industry. Read More.

The Association of Independent Corrugated Converters (AICC) will present Selling to Corrugated Structural and Graphics, a one-and-a-half day course held May 8-9, 2008 at Fox Valley Technical College in Appleton, Wisconsin. Read more
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The Association of Independent Corrugated Converters (AICC) will present The Independent Business Leadership Executives Forum on May 12-13, 2008 at the Stetson University Center near Orlando, Florida. AICC, in partnership with the Family Enterprise Center of Stetson University, presents its second offering of this unique, two-day executive training program designed to help member companies navigate the challenges of operating an independently owned business. Read more

The Association of Independent Corrugated Converters (AICC) and Efficient Collaborative Retail Marketing (ECRM) are pleased to announce an agreement to offer their Sustainable Packaging Scorecard training directly to AICC members. ECRM and their partner MARSPKG will provide a one-day training workshop specially designed for the corrugated industry that will explain how utilizing Wal-Mart's Sustainable Packaging Scorecard can improve designability and earn new business. Read more

On May 6-7, 2008, AICC will be offering its Advanced Production Supervisor Training, hosted by Pearce Wellwood Inc. in Brampton, Ontario. This full two-day program further develops the skills of experienced production supervisors and managers in setting operational goals for their crews, communicating and listening, measuring and maintaining productivity, training their crews, controlling waste, etc. click here for details.

AICC offers its third Designers’ Workshop for structural designers and sales staff in the corrugated industry, to be held Thursday and Friday, May 15-16, in Chicago, Illinois. The learning goals of the program are to strengthen the designers’ knowledge in raw materials, testing and production processes and to understand the reasonable and practical limitations in moving from design to production. Discussions will be scheduled on developing sustainable packaging initiatives and the current state of the industry. Attendees will also engage in a private tour of the United Parcel Service (UPS) Chicago Area Consolidated Hub (CACH) operations and the UPS Customer Solutions Package Design and Test Lab. click here.

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Ruth Watts
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