Interstate Container to Attend CoRR Fall Resource Recovery Conference 2011

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GREENCOAT® wax-alternative packaging manufacturer will attend sessions on food waste recovery, wholesale packaging, and paper foodservice packaging.


Jeff Cormier, Interstate Container Cambridge Sales and Marketing Manager and Global Green Coalition for Resource Recovery (CoRR) Executive Committee member, will be present at CoRR Fall Resource Recovery Conference 2011 and the 12th Annual Sustainable Design Awards on 14 - 15 November in New York City.

The 2-day event will cover the latest trends, innovations, and technologies in recycling foodservice packaging and sustainable packaging designs, as well as CoRR’s 2012 pilot program promoting wax-alternative boxes.

Furthermore, the members-only ‘Wholesale Packaging’ session will discuss wax-alternative boxes, pilot processes and lessons learned, as well as upcoming pilot programs for 2012. The session aims at accelerating development and building demand for recyclable produce and wax-alternative wholesale packaging.

GREENCOAT® Wax-Alternative Corrugated Boxes

Interstate Container Cambridge manufactures GREENCOAT® wax-replacement cartons. GREENCOAT® is an award-winning recyclable, repulpable and compostable corrugated box for packing bulk poultry, meat, seafood, fresh produce, and floral products and other applications requiring eco-friendly water-proof packaging.

The wax-alternative box meets the performance standards of waxed boxes, provides proven moist condition tolerance and saves customer disposal fees.

CoRR Fall Resource Recovery Conference & Sustainable Design Awards 2011

The CoRR conference aims at accelerating the development New York’s food waste recovery infrastructure and cost-effective recyclable box solutions. The conference also aims for foodservice packaging to be recycled into valuable, high-quality materials. 

Global Green's Sustainable Design Awards 2011 will highlight great innovations and honor leaders working to protect the environment.

CoRR honored Interstate Container Cambridge with the 1st Pioneer Award for its GREENCOAT® boxes at last year’s 11th Annual Sustainable Design Awards.  

Read more about GREENCOAT®:

• Interstate Container Cambridge Receives Large Chamber Business Award  
• Dorchester-Düren Delegation Trip to Germany Opens Doors for GREENCOAT® Eco-Friendly Packaging
• U.S. EDA Awards Federal Grant to Interstate Container
• Interstate Container Cambridge to Exhibit at International Poultry Expo 2011
• Interstate Container Cambridge Honored at 11th Annual Sustainable Design Awards
• Sustainability at Interstate Resources: GREENCOAT™. . .Strength and Sustainability
• Sustainability at Interstate Resources: GREENCOAT™. . .No Wax Allowed
• Interstate Container Cambridge Named WMDT/Mountaire Farms Environmental Star of the Month for July


For More Information

Jeff Cormier
National Sales and Marketing Manager
Interstate Container
Cambridge, MD and Columbia, SC
443-523-4925

Tel: 888-267-7722 Ext. 2019
E-mail: Jeff.Cormier[at]InterstateContainer.com
Website: www.interstatecontainer.com 

Interstate Container Cambridge Representative Appointed to Global Green’s CoRR Executive Committee

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Interstate Container Cambridge demonstrates dedication to Global Green USA’s Coalition for Resource Recovery (CoRR) mission to fight climate change.


Interstate Container Cambridge Sales and Marketing Manager, Jeff Cormier, will serve in the Executive Committee of Global Green’s CoRR from August 2011 – July 2012. CoRR Executive Committee serves as an advisory team to Global Green and CoRR's Director. As a member of the committee, Cormier will provide strategic and financial guidance on meetings, events, projects, and all aspects of CoRR. [1]

In line with Global Green USA’s mission to fight global climate change, CoRR aims at transforming waste into resources, while generating business value. CoRR’s 3-year plan includes redirecting 580,000 tons of New York City waste/year from landfills which saves businesses $70 million in disposal costs.

Also, the plan comprises of decreasing greenhouse gases by 1.7 million tons/year, and developing effective waste diversion technologies and programs to transform major markets worldwide. [2]

Maryland-based Interstate Container Cambridge manufactures sustainable corrugated packaging. As recognition of the manufacturer’s green efforts, last year Interstate Container Cambridge was awarded at Global Green’s 11th annual Sustainable Design Awards in 2010 for its innovative GREENCOAT® wax-alternative corrugated boxes.

GREENCOAT® is recyclable, repulpable and compostable wax-replacement corrugated box for packing bulk poultry, meat, seafood, fresh produce, and floral packaging.

Read more about sustainability at Interstate Container and Interstate Resources:

• Growing Green, Growing Profits

• Sustainable Forestry Initiative

• Interstate Paper - Sustainable Wastewater Treatment

• Box-In-Box Creates Lean, Green Supply Chain

• Evergreen Community Power – Power to the Mill, Power to the People

• GREENCOAT™. . .Strength and Sustainability

• GREENCOAT™. . .No Wax Allowed

• Easy Set-Up POP Displays Assembled in 6 Seconds

• United Corrstack…Green Mill with a Vision

• Interstate Paper Achieves 78% Fossil Fuel Reduction

• 6-Second Easy Point of Purchase Displays

Interstate Container Cambridge is a member of Interstate Resources Container Division and a member of INDEVCO Group.


Contact Information

Interstate Container Cambridge
903 Woods Road
Cambridge, MD 21613

Tel: 410-221-7777
Fax: 410-221-7766
E-mail: greencoat@interstatecontainer.com
Web: www.interstatecontainer.com


References

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[1] http://www.thecorr.org/about_corr_executive_committee.php
[2] http://www.thecorr.org/about_corr_vision.php

Dorchester-Düren Delegation Trip to Germany Opens Doors for GREENCOAT® Eco-Friendly Packaging

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Interstate Container’s innovative wax-alternative corrugated box, GREENCOAT®, draws attention at Dorchester–Düren Sister County Partnership event in Germany.

Jim Krahn, Interstate Container Leader for Process and Product Innovation, and Pete Bugas, Interstate Container Cambridge General Manager, participated on behalf of the Dorchester County, Maryland Chamber of Commerce. The business expansion meeting explored opportunities for growth and opened doors to build awareness and compete internationally with GREENCOAT® environmentally-friendly corrugated packaging.

GREENCOAT® a is recyclable, repulpable and compostable wax-replacement corrugated box for packing bulk poultry, meat, seafood, fresh produce, and floral packaging. Following the success of the meeting, Maryland-based Interstate Container Cambridge seeks to pursue further expansion opportunities for GREENCOAT® at the European Federation of Corrugated Board Manufacturers (FEFCO) meeting later this year.

The bilateral committee for formal sister county partnership between Dorchester County, Maryland and Düren County, Germany was launched in 2005. Interstate Container is a division of Interstate Resources, a national group of kraft linerboard, recycled medium, and corrugated manufacturers based on the East Coast of the U.S.

Request more information about GREENCOAT® at: greencoat@interstatecontainer.com

Interstate Container Cambridge is a member of Interstate Resources Container Division and a member of INDEVCO Group.

Interstate Container’s New Lexington County, SC Facility to Produce ‘Green Packaging’

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The $13 million investment to open a containerboard manufacturing plant will create 60 new jobs in Lexington County, SC.


Interstate Container announces that it will establish a new manufacturing plant in Lexington County, South Carolina, with the facility expected online in September. The corrugated plant will produce eco-friendly wax-alternative corrugated boxes, which are 100% recyclable, repulpable, and compostable and which are used to ship fresh and frozen food products, such as poultry and seafood.

Interstate Container is renovating a facility previously owned by Smurfit Stone to meet its manufacturing needs. This location, with its local and state support, provides necessary market access for the corrugated packaging manufacturer to expand its customer base and market reach.


Interstate Container is a division of Interstate Resources, a national group of kraft linerboard, recycled medium, and corrugated manufacturers based in the U.S.

Sustainability at Interstate Resources: Growing Green, Growing Profits

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Interstate Resources has published a series of PDF files about the U.S. corrugated manufacturing group's sustainability efforts. Download this story at:
http://www.interstateresources.com/PDF/Interstate-Resources-Growing-Green-Growing-Profits.pdf

Corporate Profile:

Established in 1939, Interstate Resources operates by the founder’s simple motto: “What is good for the community is good for the company.” Whether it’s customer service, product innovation or investments in green energy, Interstate Resources continues to excel.Today, Interstate Resources has ten businesses on the east coast, and continues to add acquisitions in four highly competitive industry divisions: paper, container, timber/ lumber and biomass energy.

Headquartered in Arlington, Virginia, Interstate Resources is a member of INDEVCO Group. Their international support has provided Interstate Resources with management independence and flexibility; investment resources; and the ability to anticipate future needs and demands.Jim Morgan, President and COO, is at the forefront with a global vision / local touch for Interstate Resources. Operational focus is on product and service innovation, with environmental sustainability.

Operational Highlights Include:

• $10.9 million investment for manufacturing improvements and a 650-acre multiple-lagoon system for cleaner, recyclable wastewater in Riceboro, Georgia

• New biomass energy division established in Reading, Pennsylvania diverting 60 truckloads daily from landfills to the Evergreen Community Power facility

• A 78% reduction of fossil fuels since 2003

• Saving 6,000 acres of trees a year at the Reading, Pennsylvania location

• Custom solutions to help reduce customer carbon footprints, e.g., supply chain reduction for consumer packaged goods (CPG) companies

• Recyclable wax replacement packaging, with proven moist condition tolerance

• Meeting or exceeding American Lumber Standards in Riceboro, Georgia

Certifications:

• ISO 9001:2008

• Sustainable Forestry Initiative (SFI)

Memberships:

• American Forest & Paper Assn. (AF&PA)

• Association of Independent Corrugated Converters (AICC)

• Berks County Chamber of Commerce

• Chesapeake Bay Foundation

• Delmarva Poultry Industry

• Fibre Box Association (FBA)

• Forest Landowner Association

• Forest Resource Association

• Georgia Forestry Association

• New Jersey Business and Industry Assn.

• North Carolina Poultry Federation

• Produce Marketing Association

• Technical Association of the Pulp and Paper Industry (TAPPI)

• The Corr (Global Green)

• Wood Supply Research Institute

Interstate Resources will continue to add new products, enter new markets and acquire new operations. With a steady hand, innovative products and vision, Interstate Resources is positioned well for the future.

Interstate Resources, Inc. is a member of INDEVCO Group.

Interstate Container Provides Poultry Packaging Solutions

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Today poultry processors are facing the dilemma of balancing increased costs with the need to maintain competitve prices and ensure social and environmental awareness. An article tackling the issue, lauds Interstate Container for its innovative, eco-friendly and cost-efficient GREENCOAT® boxes.

Thornton, Gary, 14 March 2011,' Poultry Processors Look to Technology to Solve Cost-Price Squeeze', WATTAgNet.com. To read more visit http://www.wattagnet.com/Poultry_processors_look_to_technology_to_solve_cost-price_squeeze.html

Intertate Containeris a company of Interstate Resources, a member of INDEVCO Group.

Sustainability at Interstate Resources: Sustainable Forestry Initiative

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Interstate Resources has published a series of PDF files about the U.S. corrugated manufacturing group's sustainability efforts. Download this story at:http://www.interstateresources.com/PDF/Interstate-Resources-Sustainable-Forestry.pdf

Challenge:

Newport Timber and RB Lumber needed to address a number of business demands on several key fronts. Ensuring company profitability, pursuing environmental sensitivity, while maintaining excellent customer service and products were the challenges facing Interstate Resources.

Solution:

Building on the flexibility of private ownership, Interstate Resources has developed and instituted a multi-tiered approach for environmental, economic and service success.

The world’s renewable resources are universally regarded as precious and worth protecting. Newport Timber and RB Lumber take these responsibilities very seriously and continuously look for ways to improve its limited, minimal impact on the environment.

Practicing good sustainable forestry methods for years, Newport Timber operates within the Sustainable Forestry Initiative Inc. (SFI) guidelines. Their carbon footprint is reduced when using every part of the tree in the process, producing a product or energy. Consequently, the client’s carbon footprint is also reduced when working with Newport Timber and RB Lumber

Environmental efforts include:

• Sustainable Forestry Initiative (SFI) certified

• Charter member of SFI Georgia State Implementation Committee with continued support

• Meeting or exceeding American Lumber Standards guidelines

• Logger certification: All loggers are trained in the Georgia Master Timber Harvester Program

• Utilizing wood chips, bark and sawdust as biomass boiler fuel at Interstate Paper for steam and cogeneration of electricity

• Supplying Interstate Paper with all of their virgin fiber: 90% of chips are manufactured on site, 10% purchased as residuals from other sawmills

Newport Timber and RB Lumber’s private ownership has been instrumental with best management practices (BMPs), investments, speed of decisions, flexibility and long-term goals.

Products include pine saw wood for pressure treated lumber and wood chips. Customer service has been expanded to include Just-in-Time inventory.

You can count on their service, products and attention to detail…as always, their target is zero customer complaints.

Newport Timber and RB Lumber are members of Interstate Resources, Inc. is a member of INDEVCO Group.

Sustainability at Interstate Resources: Interstate Paper - Sustainable Wastewater Treatment

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Interstate Resources has published a series of PDF files about the U.S. corrugated manufacturing group's sustainability efforts. Download this story at:http://www.interstateresources.com/Sustainable-Wastewater-Treatment.html





Challenge:
Interstate Paper’s treatment of its wastewater was based on an end-of-pipe system that was built back in the 1960s as part of the mill’s initial infrastructure. Interstate Paper needed to find a way to sustain its wastewater treatment to meet the company’s current and projected growth and maintain its stewardship to the environment and the State of Georgia’s natural resources.

Seeking to control its treated wastewater discharges into the North Newport River, the company managers positioned their mill for holistically sustainable wastewater treatment that permits the company to grow its operations in Georgia where water remains a precious natural resource.

Solution:
Investing significant time, research, and money, Interstate Paper instituted an environmental approach that transformed the mill and ensured opportunities for growth. The strategy combines the application of existing theories and the adaptation of emerging technologies to sustain increased production demands at the mill.

• The Interstate Paper team restored and upgraded current infrastructure, including the 800-acre wastewater treatment system. The upgrade uses standard wastewater treatment technologies and methods such as facultative lagoons and plug-flow kinetics, while also including new technologies such as solar-powered basin mixers.

• They expanded best management practices. The mill implemented operational modifications that target and reduce wastewater flows and regulated pollutants at the source while improving overall processes for water use reduction and recycling. Water conservation was given priority.

• Contractors used sustainable construction methods such as using recycled concrete and local soils during the restoration and upgrade of the 800-acre lagoon system.

• The mill developed a practical long-term sludge management plan and replaced the 40 year-old sludge lagooning system by diverting 10% of the mill’s discharge flow (more than 95% of the generated solids) away from the wastewater treatment system for burning in the mill’s biofuel boiler. Interstate Paper is now ranked highly in the nation among paper mills in the quality of its effluent discharge.

The mill’s wastewater treatment facility is a thriving plant, animal, and aquatic eco-system and has been cited for the high density of waterfowl and both resident and migratory birds. Large concentrations of shrimp, fish, alligators, and indigenous birds are found in the immediate vicinity of the mill’s outfall.

Through innovative actions, Interstate Paper’s discharge remains one of the lowest in North America, meeting or exceeding all federal, state, and local standards.

Interstate Paper LLC. is a memeber of Interstate Resources, Inc. is a member of INDEVCO Group.

Sustainability at Interstate Resources: GREENCOAT™. . .Strength and Sustainability

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Interstate Resources has published a series of PDF files about the U.S. corrugated manufacturing group's sustainability efforts. Download this story at: http://www.interstateresources.com/PDF/Interstate-Resources-Greencoat-Strength-Sustainability.pdf

Challenge:

How can a packaging supplier “green” their impact on the wholesale transfer packaging supply chain and make a positive impact on the environment? If there is a solution, how can the packaging supplier distinguish themselves from all other packaging suppliers?

Solution:

Packaging supplier Interstate Container Cambridge collaborated with major poultry processor Mountaire Farms to develop a patent pending, high-performance, wax replacement, recyclable box. This box has excellent meat release properties and, in tandem with a change from ice pack boxes to modified atmosphere packaging (MAP), has lowered costs, streamlined the supply chainand reduced an estimated 100,000 tons of greenhouse gases for Mountaire Farms. This is equivalent to a yearly savings of greenhouse gas emissions from 364,262 passenger vehicles.




Interstate Container Cambridge created GREENCOAT, a unique name that ideally portrays the application. GREENCOAT is environmentally sensitive in many ways. This brand is at the forefront of recyclable, greener packaging methods and initiatives.

Interstate Container Cambridge needed to positively represent their wax replacement brand to illustrate its strength, water resistance, sustainability, and characteristics. When you see an elephant holding an umbrella, think of Interstate Container Cambridge. The logo represents toughness and durability while also portraying smart water repellant technology and environmental sustainability.

Considerable capital and many years were devoted to researching and developing their new GREENCOAT process. This cost neutral wax replacement procedure meets or exceeds most waxed box performance and is recyclable, repulpable and compostable. Custom retailer possibilities are endless when packing poultry, produce, seafood and many other products.

So look for the GREENCOAT elephant holding an umbrella, the new standard in wax replacement packaging.

You and GREENCOAT, working in tandem to help preserve the future.

Interstate Container Cambridge, located in Cambridge, Maryland, is a member of Interstate Resources Container Division a member of INDEVCO Group, the 'Local Multinational of the Middle East'.

Sustainability at Interstate Resources: GREENCOAT™. . .No Wax Allowed

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Interstate Resources has published a series of PDF files about the U.S. corrugated manufacturing group's sustainability efforts. Download this story at: http://www.interstateresources.com/PDF/Interstate-Resources-Greencoat-No-Wax-Allowed.pdf




Challenge:

A box industry challenge was to provide a viable alternative for waxed boxes. Traditional paraffin waxed boxes are on a path to extinction due primarily to their inability to recycle. Consequently they end up in landfills (or are burned as fuel).

Since 2005, many leading retailers and grocers, including Wal-Mart and Albertsons, have been demanding an environmentally friendly alternative to wax coated boxes from their suppliers. In addition, New York City and other major metropolitan areas are also considering bans on waxed boxes.

The future is clear – wax replacement packaging of poultry, seafood, produce, frozen food and floral products will become a necessity. Moist environments create challenging conditions for any wax replacement box. Performance is critical, as is the price point.

Solution:

Interstate Container Cambridge did the improbable. They created GREENCOAT, a patent-pending wax replacement that is effective, sustainable, 100% recyclable and cost effective. GREENCOAT meets or exceeds many wax performance benchmarks while remaining totally environmentally friendly.

Global Green USA, a non-profit organization committed to addressing some of the greatest challenges facing humanity, praised the development in a recent press release. The announcement discussed Hunt’s Point, NY, the world’s largest food distribution center’s move from non-recyclable transfer packaging to recyclable packaging.


Unlike traditional wax boxes, GREENCOAT wax alternative:

• Is 100% recyclable and repulpable
  
  
• Meets or exceeds most current waxed box performance
  
  
• Features state of the art high performance
  
  
• Integrates multiple use applications
  
  
• Provides proven moist condition tolerance
  
  
• Is compostable
  
  
• Immediately promotes environmental and sustainability efforts
  
  
• Saves customers disposal fees
  
  
• And is cost neutral

Additional benefits include reduced carbon footprints by eliminating pre-steps required for traditional wax coated or cascaded corrugated packaging, as well as by minimizing supply chain steps.

Let Interstate Container Cambridge work with your team to solve your custom ice pack and moist environment corrugated box needs.


Interstate Container Cambridge, located in Cambridge, Maryland, is a member of Interstate Resources Container Divisiona member of INDEVCO Group, the 'Local Multinational of the Middle East'

Sustainability at Interstate Resources: Easy Set-Up POP Displays Assembled in 6 Seconds

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Interstate Resources has published a series of PDF files about the U.S. corrugated manufacturing group's sustainability efforts. Download this story at
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Challenge

Millions of dollars are lost when over 50 percent of the corrugated point of purchase (POP) displays are wasted. Due to assembly complexities, time limitations or a transient workforce, many displays never get assembled. Interstate Container Reading, the “go to” source for problem-solving, recognized the need for better, retail friendly, easily assembled displays.

Solution

By simplifying display designs and using a fresh, differentiated approach, Interstate Container Reading is able to create innovative, easy to use, holistic displays that can be customized to individual customer needs.

Today’s retailers and consumer packaged goods (CPG) companies are focused on reducing packaging costs, problem-solving, eliminating waste and using fossil fuel alternatives. Interstate Container Reading brings a high level of commitment, creativity and responsibility to find the right, customized display solution for each customer’s situation.

Using their Pacific 3.0 with the Polyjoiner module, the Interstate Container Reading creative design team has developed dozens of new displays, taking as little as six seconds or less to pop into place. Easy POP customers reduce waste and get a strong return on investment since their high impact displays are assembled and deployed within the retail setting, leading to greater product placement visibility.




Retailers and CPG companies are enthusiastic about the Easy POP display configurations, simplicity and increased product visibility. The customized display offers function, quality and aesthetics.

The patented Easy POP display units can be custom printed in up to four colors. Let Interstate Container Reading help you present your product with an eyecatching display.

Capabilities

Interstate Container Reading’s equipment includes: Pacific 3.0 and Polyjoiner/folder gluer, BHS corrugators, Bobst platen die-cutter and Bobst color press. These allow for award winning full-service graphic packaging and POP displays.


Interstate Container Reading is a member of Interstate Resources, Inc., a member of INDEVCO Group, the 'Local Multinational of the Middle East'.

Sustainability at Interstate Resources: United Corrstack…Green Mill with a Vision

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Interstate Resources has published a series of PDF files about the U.S. corrugated manufacturing group's sustainability efforts. Download this story at
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Challenge

For years, corrugated box and paper customers required competitive pricing and customized service. However, more and more, today’s customers demand price, service…plus social responsibility and sustainability practices from their business to business partners. Environmental stewardship is a necessary and expected part of everyday business.

Solution

Today, United Corrstack integrates many environmental sustainability practices into its day-to-day workflow, resulting in extensive natural resource protection. Just this one location saves 6,000 acres of trees a year. Their corrugating medium is 100% recycled materials (98% post consumer and 2% pre consumer).

United Corrstack is Sustainable Forestry Initiative (SFI) certified, providing another business advantage to its corrugated box customers. The SFI logo identifies environmentally responsible products, with third-party corroboration and separates their services from competitors without environmental verification. When purchasing SFI products, the customer is assured their products are produced with eco-friendly materials and practices.




Evergreen Community Power provides the paper mill with sustainable energy independence, impacting all aspects of the operation. United Corrstack receives clean electric and steam from renewable sources United Corrstack… Green Mill with a Vision generated by their nearby power plant compared to other paper mills using fossil fuel and purchasing electric from a large fossil fuel utility. By exploiting synergies between multiple Interstate Resources business units, there are seamless, green, closed loop sustainable energy and recycling systems in place.

Customers can positively impact their own carbon footprint, the environment and society by choosing to do business with United Corrstack.

Capabilities

United Corrstack produces recycled corrugating medium from 23# to 33# with their 166" paper machine. Customer service and reliability include available Just-in-Time inventory.


United Corrstack LLC is a member of Interstate Resources, Inc., a member of INDEVCO Group, the 'Local Multinational of the Middle East'.

Sustainability at Interstate Resources: Interstate Paper Achieves 78% Fossil Fuel Reduction

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Interstate Resources has published a series of PDF files about the U.S.corrugated manufacturing group's sustainability efforts. Download this story at www.interstateresources.com/PDF/Interstate-Resources-Reduction-for-Fossil-Fuels.pdf.

Challenge

In order to serve the customer, support the community and protect natural resources, Interstate Paper needed to find a way to develop environmentally friendly energy, maximize efficiencies and still produce a competitive product.

Solution

Interstate Paper has been improving their sustainable efforts for years. They’ve consistently reached past the “good enough” benchmark by constantly re-evaluating and adjusting their environmental focus and initiatives. These ongoing endeavors consist of maximizing current infrastructure and resources, investing in continuous improvements, and committing to future modifications.

Here’s a quick snapshot of successful initiatives toward safeguarding the environment:

Investments

• Late 2003, Install Bubbling Fluidized Bed (BFB) Boiler
  
  - Provides 62% reduction in mill wide fossil fuel consumption
  - Supplies 45% of steam for mill
  - Utilizes a variety of non fossil fuels
  - Bark, wood waste
  - Green chips (pine plantation thinning)
  - Tire derived fuel (shredded discarded tires)
  - Sludge derived from recycling boxes / old corrugated containers (OCC)
  - Uses less than 10% fossil fuel for start-up, shutdown and stabilization
  
  
• 2007, Upgrade BFB
  
  - Improves air system, fuel feed system and ash handling
  - Provides improved boiler efficiency
  - Reduces fossil fuel an additional 39% compared to the previous best in 2006
  
  
• 2009, Upgrade Recovery Boiler Burner Management System
  
  - Improves boiler reliability
  - Provides 55% of the mill steam from black liquor (a tree by-product of producing pulp)
  - Uses less than 2% fossil fuel for start-up, shutdown and stabilization
  - Provides steam for the mill and recovers chemicals
  
  
• 2010, Super Heater Replacement Project
  
  - Improves reliability
  - Initiate project in 2009 with 2010 Installation
  
  

Results

• Fossil fuel, 78% reduction since 2003
  
• Water, 14% reduction (9 ½ million gallons of water a day from 11 million gallons a day
  
• Electricity, 40% from biomass
  
• Sulfur dioxide (a major contributor to acid rain), 60% reduction since 2003
  
• Steam reduction
  
• Particulates emission (tiny solid particles), 38% reduction due to:
  - Better BFB air pollution controls
  - Ability to run the mill without the Power Boiler

Being a privately owned paper mill provides the opportunity to focus on investments for long-term growth and to aggressively pursue environmental sustainability improvements. This is truly a biomass driven paper mill since 2003, with less than 14% fossil fuel used to make steam.

Interstate Paper is a member of Interstate Resources, Inc., a member of INDEVCO Group, the 'Local Multinational of the Middle East'.

Interstate Container Cambridge Named WMDT/Mountaire Farms Environmental Star of the Month for July

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In a joint effort with Mountaire Farms, Interstate Container has developed a recyclable and compostable “GREENCOAT™” box for use in packing and shipping poultry and other products, aimed at reducing waste and greenhouse gas emissions.

(Millsboro, DE) – ABC affiliated television station in Salisbury, MD, WMDT and Mountaire Farms are proud to name Interstate Container Cambridge, MD, as the recipient of the WMDT/Mountaire Farms Environmental Star of the Month Award for July. For over a decade the box industry has faced the challenge of finding a viable alternative to wax coated boxes.

Under mounting pressure from major metropolitan areas and retailers to develop an environmentally friendly option, Interstate Container of Cambridge, a subsidiary of Interstate Resources, did the improbable, meeting the challenge head on and developing their patent pending GREENCOAT™ box. This unique box maintains all the strengths of its wax coat counterpart and none of its weaknesses.

In comparison, the box size has been slightly smaller, allowing for a reduction in the amount of paper needed to produce the box, and the inner plastic bag and wax coating once used on all boxes was eliminated. These subtle, but highly effective changes make the biggest difference possible, the new GREENCOAT™ box is 100% recyclable and compostable, thus reducing the millions of tons of waste destined for landfills & greenhouse gas emissions once seen with wax coated boxes.

This new packaging has passed the ISO 16929 protocol for plastic disintegration in a pilot scale composting facility, which means it meets the government’s environmental standards. It is for this innovative excellence Interstate Container was chosen as an Environmental Star of the Month.

Mountaire Farms, a proud partner of Interstate Container, has fully integrated the GREENCOAT™ boxes into their production facilities for use in packing and shipping poultry product throughout the United States and abroad. It was through a joint effort with Interstate Container that the GREENCOAT™ prototype, and its state-of-the-art technology, was first developed and unveiled to the world.

Mountaire Farms is the first company to utilize the 100% recyclable containers, which are inline to replace all wax boxes used in the U.S. supply chain. This industry switch over as a whole will not only eliminate waste, but will also provide noticeable decreases in water and energy usage. And Interstate Container can proudly say they where the driving force behind this latest technological innovation, placing them at the forefront of the industry.

According to Pete Bugas, General Manager, Interstate Container,

“This a major step to permanently remove wax boxes throughout the supply chain in the United States. This box now provides the end-user with a recycling option; it also is certified compostable, which is yet another avenue to prevent boxes from being land-filled.”

Earlier this year the GREENCOAT™ boxes were first tested on Mountaire product destined for the New York City market, which runs through the Hunt’s Point Distribution facility in New York. Interstate Container, in partnership with Global Green USA and Mountaire, commenced the conversion of Mountaire’s New York City business to these FBA-certified recyclable boxes. This initial trial was implemented at Mountaire’s Lumber Bridge North Carolina facility, the largest poultry processing plant in the country.

By transitioning Mountaire’s business to GREENCOAT™ boxes, the New York City market alone will now be able to recycle over 6,000 tons of poultry boxes per year. If all of Mountaire’s boxes servicing New York City are recycled, greenhouses gases would be reduced by 21,000 mtCO2e per year, equivalent to removing 3,800 passenger cars off the road.

After witnessing these glowing results, it was an easy decision for Mountaire to formulate a plan to not only convert their existing modified atmosphere packaging to recyclable boxes, but also to convert their ice pack product to atmosphere packaging as well, in turn allowing for a complete transition of the entire product line to recyclable boxes. Full conversion of facilities in Lumber Bridge, NC, Selbyville, DE and Millsboro, DE has already been completed.

“Because we’re an agricultural company, we have an obligation to take care of the earth. In order to sustain our business, we need to have good soil, clean water, and clean air to grow our crops and raise our chickens. It is all part of our way of being.”- Larry Saywell, VP of Marketing, Mountaire Farms

The WMDT/Mountaire Environmental Star of the Month Award is designed to honor local individuals or groups for outstanding achievement in promoting environmentalism on Delmarva. Anyone contributing to the advancement, promotion, awareness and improvement of our Delmarva environment is eligible for this unique television and Mountaire tribute.

To request information about GREENCOAT™ wax alternative boxes, contact: greencoat@interstatecontainer.com.

Source: www.mountaire.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=content.pageDetails&id=2014&typeID=551