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Each Pack Trax Report discusses potential cost reduction for one packaging category.  This is content you simply cannot
get anywhere else.

Our August 2026 report delivered performance-driven cost reduction for corrugated containers.  The four performance improvement recommendations we made and costed could deliver up to 17% cost improvement.  That more than offsets the price escalation for containers which has occurred this year.  

And our strategy advice delivers a new supplier management platform which outperforms traditional competitive leverage strategies which no longer work effectively in the current marketplace for items such as containerboard which has become highly rationalized in the past two years.

We also pointed out how the implementation of new U.S. tariffs of 50% may have enabled the hefty price increase by essentially eliminating more than 1 million tons of import supply from the U.S. market.  This made a snug market exceedingly tight.


 This is information you simply cannot get anywhere else.


Pack Trax is the only publication written from the perspective of the packaging buyer.





 

Sep 1, 2026    News September 2026
The most recent edition of Pack Trax dealt with alternative strategies to deal with corrugated container cost escalation through performance-based strategy with suppliers. Utilizing a productivity strategy we made four recommendations which could deliver up to 17% cost improvement on corrugated containers. These include; getting the paper content of your containers right; print and color management for pre-print containers for beverage or household appliance boxes; lightweight containers and recycled linerboard versus kraft liner for some applications. This is the type of content you just can obtain anywhere else.