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5 Advantages of Bag-In-Box Packaging

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The bag-in-box industry has been trending upwards the last few years, and it’s showing no sign of slowing down anytime soon. There are many advances in the beverage industry that are influencing this trend whether it’s new technologies in films, taps, or how the bags are made and filled. The BIB industry is here to stay. Here are five advantages to bag-in-box.

1. Better for the environment
Corrugate requires a lot less energy to produce than glass and the outer box and bag are recyclable. It is light weight also makes it easier to transport, so shipments leave less of a carbon footprint in the long run. Also, since BIB wine stays fresher longer, you are not as likely to waste half-finished bottles that have gone bad.

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Great Northern Packaging – Oshkosh Facility Wins Two Excellence Awards for Innovative Paperboard Packaging

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Each year, the very best paperboard packages across North America are entered in the North American Paperboard Packaging Competition. Our Great Northern Packaging – Oshkosh facility is pleased to announce it has received two Excellence Awards – one in the Digital Application category, and the other in the General packaging category. The winning packages stand out with their high-impact graphics, durable structures, and custom features.

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Great Northern to invest in UW-Stout advanced design and packaging class to replicate industry

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Great Northern is pleased to announce a collaboration with the University of Wisconsin–Stout to launch The UW-Stout Great Northern Corporation Collaboration Experience course, a four-year pilot project focused on advanced design and packaging. Students will receive instruction and work in cross-disciplinary teams to solve a packaging challenge or complete a project or competition.  “The Collaborative Experience is a multidisciplinary design and packaging class that replicates the way we work with our customers on design projects,” commented John Davis, Great Northern’s Chief Executive Officer. Read More…

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Great Northern wins ‘Best in Show’ and ‘Gold’ Awards at the 2020 Excellence in Flexography Awards

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Great Northern Packaging is pleased to announce that it received The Best in Show and Gold Awards in the Combined Corrugated category in the 2020 Excellence in Flexography Awards competition. The winning packaging, the 3M Rock Your Workday Box produced by the Chippewa Falls Packaging team, stood out for its flexographic print quality that achieved a good tonal range and exceptional detailed image quality.

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WLUK Fox 11 Feature: Learn more about a Career at Great Northern

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View the video below to discover how Great Northern can help you win with a career in corrugated manufacturing. The segment aired on WLUK Fox 11, in partnership with the Northeast Wisconsin Manufacturing Alliance, and provides an inside look at Great Northern and how we live our mission and vision every day.

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New FBA Video: Boxes – the most extraordinary ordinary thing in the world

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Check out the Fibre Box Association’s newest video, which takes a creative and fun look into why “ordinary” boxes are truly extraordinary!

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Great Northern Joins Amazon Packaging Support and Supplier Network (APASS)

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Great Northern is now a member of the Amazon Packaging Support and Supplier Network (APASS), a select group of companies that Amazon officially recognizes as packaging experts who can help e-commerce vendors with their packaging challenges.

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Learn how Great Northern can assist you with meeting Amazon’s new standards.

75th annual Northern American Paperboard Packaging Competition

We won four Excellence awards for innovative packaging!

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In this year’s North American Paperboard Packaging Competition, Great Northern brought home Excellence Awards for the innovative design and performance of four paperboard packaging solutions. Hosted by the Paperboard Packaging Council, the best designs from across North America were judged by a jury of packaging professionals, industry experts, and professors.

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Great Northern Wins Two Excellence Awards for Package Design

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APPLETON, WI, December 13, 2017 – Great Northern, a leader in custom retail packaging solutions, received two Excellence Awards in the 2017 North American Paperboard Packaging Competition. Great Northern’s Excellence Award Winners include an innovative package design for Griffon Vault – Premium Vodka in a Box, using an eco-friendly packaging concept that features a dispenser integrated within the package design. This is the second PPC award a Griffon box has received in the last two years. Read More…

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Great Northern Packaging – Oshkosh honored with platinum supplier award

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Great Northern Packaging – Oshkosh facility has been awarded the first ever Platinum Supplier Award by Hickory Farms. To qualify for this award, we had to achieve three consecutive annual Gold ratings.

The Platinum Award goes to the supplier that exemplifies the high performance culture, quality, operational excellence and proactive improvement for long-term focus that Hickory Farms expects from its partners to achieve its best in class mission. Read More…

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Great Northern Packaging – Oshkosh Location Receives Six PPC Awards

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Great Northern Packaging – Oshkosh, a leader in engineered packaging solutions, received six awards, including a Gold Award and five Excellence Awards, in the Carton Competition held by the Paperboard Packaging Council on October 8, 2015.

Our gold-winning package was the “Titleist 2 Dozen Promo Kit.” The package’s heavy duty construction held multiple components, such as two dozen golf balls and various promotional items. The goals of the project was to give the buyer a high perceived value, and extend brand visibility. Read More…

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Great Expectations is more than a tagline, it is an attitude. At Great Northern, customer challenges are met by an undying spirit to doing what others can’t or won’t. It’s in our DNA. And it is what our customers have come to expect with Great Northern.

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