Winners to be Honored at May 12th i xchange Event

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Source: Ben Franklin, Technology Partners, Northeastern Pennsylvania, 17 April 2009

The Ben Franklin Technology Partners of Northeastern Pennsylvania has announced the winners of the Northeastern Pennsylvania Innovation Awards. Winners will be honored at the Ben Franklin i xchange event, scheduled for 5:30 PM on Tuesday, May 12th at the Zoellner Arts Center at Lehigh University.

Awards will be presented in eight categories, to companies or individuals who have achieved business success through Ben Franklin funding and assistance, have helped others to achieve success, or have improved their business through innovation. Each award recipient represents a person or company that exemplifies achievement in that particular category.

Ben Franklin Award

The purposes of the innovation awards are to congratulate winners on their success and achievement, to highlight the effectiveness of the Ben Franklin program, and to inform entrepreneurs and established manufacturers about the resources that are available to them in northeast Pennsylvania.

Manufacturing Achievement
The company that best exemplifies achievement in the manufacturing arena, showing a proven track record of success and an unbending commitment to achieving and maintaining excellence in manufacturing.

United Corrstack, LLC, Reading, David F. Stauffer, General Manager

At a time when recycling, renewable fuel, and energy independence are at the forefront of national consciousness, United Corrstack (UCI) is a model of green efforts. The company produces recycled corrugated fluting paper which is a component of cardboard boxes, and is in the process of developing its own power plant that burns biomass organic waste.

UCI worked with Ben Franklin and Northampton Community College’s Electrotechnology Applications Center (ETAC), first to evaluate options to allow higher throughput at the facility, and later to assess boiler fuel alternatives for UCI.

Because of rising energy costs, UCI is creating its own cogeneration plant, generated by materials such as wood and agricultural waste, to provide steam and electricity. UCI currently employs 80, and through the energy plant has created 25 new positions. UCI’s work with Ben Franklin and ETAC helped the company to significantly improve its competitive position, and will increase employment and reduce landfill waste in the region.


Company Information


720 Laurel Street
Reading, Pennsylvania 19602 USA
Telephone: 610-374-3000
Fax: 610-376-8215
Emails:
dstauffer@unitedcorrstack.com
amclaughlin@unitedcorrstack.com

United Corrstack Plans to Begin Biomass Boiler

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Source: KSH Consulting, March / April 2009

Despite the current sharp drop in containerboard demand, two North American producers, Interstate Resources and Norampac continue to study plans to position themselves for the next market upturn and what could be a possible shift to lightweight recycled containerboard.

Interstate Resources' United Corrstack plans to begin a new 33 MW biomass boiler at its Reading, PA, medium mill this fall. The additional power would eventually allow the company to install a new board machine that would be at least twice as large as its existing machine. (Pulp & Paper Week, April 3, 2009).

On the other hand, Norampac has been evaluating a new lightweight machine to replace its Red Rock, ON, kraft linerboard mill, where it ran two PMs, that closed more than two years ago and left a gap in the sixth largest North American integrated producer’s mill/box plant system.

The company is studying possible locations in the US and Canada including its existing Niagara Falls, NY corrugating medium mill complex.

Company Information

720 Laurel Street
Reading, Pennsylvania 19602 USA

Telephone: 610-374-3000
Fax: 610-376-8215

Emails:
dstauffer@unitedcorrstack.com
amclaughlin@unitedcorrstack.com