Achievements

Key Technology (Walla Walla, WA) was honored by Ocean Spray Cranberries with its 2000 Supplier of the Year award in the Capital Equipment category. The Assn.

for Dressings and Sauces named Kraft Food Services’ gallon jug with finger grip handle the Package of the Year. CCL Custom Mfg.’s (Grand Rapids, MI) K-G Packaging Plant in Concord, Ontario, Canada, received the 2000 Global Packager Award from the WD-40 Co. Duane Smith of Black Clawson (Fulton, NY) has been awarded the Thomas W. Busch Prize for excellence in technical accomplishment from the TAPPI Finishing & Converting Div. The Health Care Compliance Assn. (Philadelphia, PA) was honored at the Intl. WorldFest as a recipient of the Award for Excellence in Video Design and Production. Barry Watts, former executive gen. mgr. of Southcorp Packaging, was named 2000 Packaging Achiever of the Year by SICPA. Basic Adhesives Inc. (Brooklyn, NY) was cited by “Crain’s New York Business” as a winner of a Small Business Award.

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