Scholle India Employees

Scholle Packaging over the past several years has been focused on establishing a presence in the Indian market place by creating closer relationships with our strategic partners and stakeholders, developing the business and building a foundation for the future.

We are now pleased to announce that Scholle Packaging is investing in the next phase of development in India by moving premises to a single site Administration and Warehousing facility located in Hinjewadi, Pune, Marharashtra. The facility incorporates the resources to support the growth achieved in bag-in-box packaging over the past few years and into the foreseeable future along with providing an option for manufacturing on the same site when required.

In addition to the new premises Mr Sandeep Dharap has recently joined the company as Country Head. Mr Dharap brings with him a wealth of experience in General Management functions within the packaging and in other related industries in India. He is well equipped to provide the leadership guiding the business through this current expansion phase and into the next. Mr Dharap and the Pune team are pictured below.

Scholle Packaging offers a high level of service to all customers, fast delivery of product through locally held stock, trade in local currency and provide employment opportunities in the local Pune area. To our valued customers, our many new prospects and associates we thank you for your support and look forward to our further engagement in the coming years by delivering an increased level of value to your business.

Full contact details of the new facility:
Scholle Packaging (India) Pvt. Ltd.
Plot No. 12, Thirumala Industrial Estate
Survey No. 253/2/2, Hinjewadi
Pune – 411 057 INDIA

Telephone: +91 20 6792 8800
Fax: +91 20 6792 8899

Northlake, IL, Sept. 13, 2011 — Scholle Packaging, the Pioneer of Bag-in-Box™, is pleased to introduce its latest bag-in-box packaging innovation at the 2011 Pack Expo in Las Vegas. The Scholle SureFill® filler is a single-head, fully-automatic, linear bag-in-box filler and is also offered in High-Acid, Fresh and Extended Shelf Life (ESL) models to suit the requirements of a wide array of products. According to Rick Pindur, Director of Global Equipment Engineering at Scholle Packaging, “the filler’s design shares many components across multiple models, allowing the addition of modules for customer-specific applications or future upgrades.”

The new platform is a combination of the most advanced bag-in-box filling technologies in an operations-friendly machine that delivers production versatility and speed. This combination offers processors: bag size and fitment versatility; filling speeds up to 15 one-gallon bags per minute; decreased operations down-time with automatic changeovers; longer run periods between clean-up and enhanced product and operator safety.
The High-Acid version of the filler will bring processors the ability to offer popular 100% preservative-free, aseptic products to large-volume customers with product end-use flexibility. Curt Linson, Market Segment Director for Beverages at Scholle Packaging remarked that “the ability to package shelf-stable juices without preservatives brings a whole new level of product quality to the dispensed juice marketplace.”

The Scholle SureFill® will be showcased at Scholle Packaging’s booth (#5937) at Pack Expo 2011 in Las Vegas, September 26-28.

ABOUT SCHOLLE PACKAGING:
Scholle Packaging’s founder, William Scholle, invented bag-in-box packaging in 1947. Today the company is the world leader in bag-in-box packaging for the food, beverage, and industrial markets. With manufacturing locations on five continents and products that are sold in more than 60 countries, Scholle Packaging delivers high-quality packaging products and excellent customer service around the world. www.scholle.com.

The Castrol E-Pack is a six gallon bag-in-box package. This package features a flexible inner bag with an attached tap for dispensing, developed and supplied by Scholle Packaging, and exterior corrugated carton. Castrol’s new packaging approach for motor oil replaces 24 individual quart bottles resulting in an 85% reduction in discarded plastic. The combined use of this innovative package and the E-Dispensing system reduces 86 percent of residual oil left in packaging versus traditional quart bottle packaging. 

Walmart’s Tire and Lube Express facilities began using Castrol E-Pack in 2008. Recently Walmart announced that they will be replacing the use of bulk oil tanks and quart oil bottles, in their new and existing Tire and Lube Express facilities, with E-Packs and E-Dispensing systems due to the significant cost savings, reduced environmental impacts and improved inventory management. 

A website dedicated to the Castrol Enviro-Pack has been launched and includes valuable information about Castrol’s latest product offerings, as well as insight into the latest news and trends within the oil and lubricants industry. For more information, please visit: www.castrol.com/epack. 

Click here to learn more about Scholle’s bag-in-box for automotive fluids and chemicals.

 Northlake, Illinois- June 13, 2011- Scholle Packaging, the Pioneer of Bag-In-Box®, has won a distinguished DuPont Award for Packaging Innovation for bag-in-box for automotive fluid chemicals.

The DuPont Award for Packaging Innovation is given to industry-breakthrough packages that significantly reduce waste/material usage, improve sustainability and are innovative. This year 16 packages were recognized with this award from over 200 entries.

Scholle Packaging’s bag-in-box system for automotive chemicals and fluids allows manufacturer’s to satisfy their customers’ needs with an efficient, environmentally-conscious package.

“At Scholle Packaging, we believe that sustainability, cost-saving, safety, convenience and maximizing supply-chain efficiencies are the top factors driving packaging innovation,” mentioned Neer Patel, Customer Business Manager.

Each six-gallon bag-in-box packaging system removes 24 one-liter bottles from the waste stream and features superior product evacuation, saving suppliers money and damage to the environment upon disposal into landfills.

Scholle Packaging members attended the DuPont Award ceremony and participated in the panel discussion that took place in Wilmington, Delaware on June 1^st.

To learn more about the DuPont Awards for Packaging Innovation and to view the panel discussion, visit www.packaging.dupont.com.

Click here to learn more about Scholle Packaging’s bag-in-box for automotive chemicals and fluids.

Irvine, CA- May 13, 2011- Scholle Packaging, the Pioneer of Bag-In-Box™, announces the acquisition of ZORK, pioneering developer of ‘peel and reseal’ closures for wine and spirits.

Scholle Packaging is the global leader in providing the wine, beer and spirits industry, with innovative films and closures, e.g. FlexTap™, for flexible packaging. The ZORK acquisition falls in line with Scholle’s current performance polymer technologies and now allows further expansion of their precision closure offering for both rigid and flexible container applications in the wine and spirits market.

“The acquisition of ZORK is key to Scholle’s Customer Integrated Packaging business unit,” mentions Richard Barrett, Director of Global Wine and Spirits for Scholle Packaging. “We are now able to expand our closure product offering to service new and existing customers who pack in rigid formats, while maintaining the focus on our key flexible packaging customers.”

According to John Brooks, co-founder and Technical Director of ZORK, “The relationship between Scholle Packaging and ZORK has developed positively over the past several years, with a natural alignment in industry vision, technology and customer focus. I am very pleased to now be part of their highly skilled team.”

ZORK SPK™ and STL™ closures are among the products Scholle Packaging will now offer as a result of the acquisition. The STL is an established, alternative closure for still wines in Australia, Europe and the United States. The SPK is the world’s first and only commercially proven re-sealable closure for sparkling wines and is already making a significant impact on sparkling wine markets globally.

The launch of the ZORK closures as part of the Scholle Packaging portfolio will take place at the London International Wine and Spirits Fair, 17-19 May 2011.

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ABOUT SCHOLLE PACKAGING:

Scholle Packaging’s founder, William Scholle, invented bag-in-box packaging in 1947. Today the company is the world leader in bag-in-box packaging for the food, beverage, and industrial markets. With manufacturing locations on five continents and products that are sold in more than 60 countries, Scholle Packaging delivers high-quality packaging products and excellent customer service around the world. www.scholle.com

Northlake, Illinois- April 7, 2011- Scholle Packaging, the Pioneer of Bag-In-Box®, has won the prestigious 3M Sustainability Award from 3M along with the Institute of Packaging Professionals (IOPP)’s Ameristar Award for the automotive category.

Each year the 3M Sustainability Award is given to the package which scores highest in reducing impacts on the environment. This includes efficient energy usage, recycling efforts, effective use of packaging materials and recovery.

“Scholle Packaging is honored to win both the 3M Sustainability Award and an Ameristar Award” remarked Tom Bickford, Executive Vice President-Packaging, “Scholle Packaging is committed to producing packaging materials with lower environmental impacts to better serve our customers.”

Scholle Packaging’s bag-in-box system for automotive chemicals and fluids allows manufacturer’s to satisfy their customers’ needs with an efficient, environmentally-conscious package.

Each six gallon bag-in-box packaging system removes 24 one-liter bottles from the waste stream and features superior product evacuation, saving suppliers money and damage to the environment upon disposal into landfills.

Overall, plastic resin usage is reduced by nearly 90% compared to rigid one-liter bottles, reducing impact to the environment through the manufacture of the packaging system. During shipping, greenhouse gas emissions are lower than the incumbent packaging due to more-efficient cube utilization on trucks, in warehouses and at the end- user. The outer carton of the packaging system is also fully-recyclable.

Scholle Packaging members will be in attendance at the Ameristar Awards Dinner and Ceremony hosted by IOPP, May 10th in Rosemont, IL.

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ABOUT SCHOLLE PACKAGING:
Scholle Packaging’s founder, William Scholle, invented bag-in-box packaging in 1947. Today the company is the world leader in bag-in-box packaging for the food, beverage, and industrial markets. With manufacturing locations on five continents and products that are sold in more than 60 countries, Scholle Packaging delivers high-quality packaging products and excellent customer service around the world. www.scholle.com

Unlike other aseptic bag-in-box filling systems, the Scholle SureFill® 30 Low-Acid has a unique combination of technologies based on equipment currently utilized in the aseptic industry today and incorporates new Scholle designed features in one machine. This combination offers processors: bag size and fitment versatility; filling speeds up to 15 one-gallon bags per minute; decreased operations down-time with automatic changeovers; longer run periods between clean-up and enhanced product and operator safety.

The release of the Scholle SureFill® 30 Low-Acid marks the beginning of a significant shift in Scholle’s equipment design process. Scholle used the “House of Quality” process, a formalized approach to significantly focus, define and rank the real needs of the market prior to beginning a development process.

According to Rick Pindur, Director of Global Equipment Engineering at Scholle Packaging, “Referencing the House of Quality as design parameters throughout the design work kept us on track to ensure the new filler design fully meets customer expectations.”

ABOUT SCHOLLE PACKAGING:

Scholle Packaging’s founder, William Scholle, invented bag-in-box packaging in 1947. Today the company is the world leader in bag-in-box packaging for the food, beverage, and industrial markets. With manufacturing locations on five continents and products that are sold in more than 60 countries, Scholle Packaging delivers high-quality packaging products and excellent customer service around the world. www.scholle.com

This letter is important to our customers who purchase bags made with MPET barrier film.

Dear Customer,

You may have started to read in the press and hear news about a problem in the conversion of 12-micron PET, the base product we use at our sister company Vacumet to produce Metallized Polyester. Vacumet’s Metallized Polyester is used in many of our barrier bag applications.

There are several reasons why this shortage has come about:

• Increased global demand for PET films in non-packaging applications and market segments such as cell phones and high-definition, flat-screen televisions.
• Lag in the capitalization and start-up of new film manufacturing capacity due to the 2008/09 recession.
• Anti-dumping action against PET manufacturers in China, Taiwan, India and Brazil, forcing the potential exit of packaging-grade PET manufacturers from the U.S. market.

The Global Operations and Supply Chain group within Scholle are working hard to help Vacumet find alternative suppliers of PET film, as well as the direct purchase from–and qualification of–alternative MPET vendors. For an update, please check our website at www.scholle.com.

As a result of these actions, we have already seen a significant increase in MPET costs which, to-date, Scholle has absorbed. We cannot continue to take these increases and this letter is to notify all our customers using MPET film that increases will soon be advised.

Paul Dean
Vice President – North America Commercial

Scholle Packaging wins two Ameristar Awards

Northlake, Illinois- May 1, 2010- Scholle Packaging, the Pioneer of Bag-In-Box™, won two 2009/2010 Ameristar Awards from Institute of Packaging Professionals (IOPP). Each year IOPP recognizes packages that exhibit superior innovation, product protection, performance, less environmental impact and economics.   

Scholle Packaging’s winning packages included KeyKeg® and Jerribox®. KeyKeg, the revolutionary one-way keg, won an Ameristar Award in the beverage category. Jerribox for liquid laundry detergent won an Ameristar Award in the household care category.

“Scholle Packaging is honored to win two Ameristar Awards” remarked Jim Kolar, Business Development Director. “Our pioneering spirit, customer focus and dedication to responsible packaging solutions drive Scholle’s package innovations that serve new and current end-markets.”

KeyKeg, developed by Lightweight Containers, utilizes a Scholle Packaging inner bag and is ideal for beer and other carbonated beverages. KeyKeg offers many benefits including, extra protection during transportation, longer preservation, increased marketing opportunities and clear logistical cost reductions.

Jerribox®, for liquid laundry detergents, saves approximately 62% plastic usage compared to the plastic bottles that are currently the industry standard. The Jerribox has two key components, the exterior carton and the delivery system. The delivery system is composed of a Scholle Packaging inner plastic bag, plastic collar and a push-button dispensing tap. Once filled the rigid collar secures the inner bag to the exterior carton, providing support and easy access to the dispensing tap. The entire delivery system is provided to the processor in one pre-assembled compact cartridge.

Scholle Packaging members will be attending the Ameristar Awards Dinner and Ceremony hosted by IOPP, May 18th in Rosemont, IL.

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ABOUT SCHOLLE PACKAGING:
Scholle Packaging’s founder, William Scholle, invented bag-in-box packaging in 1947. Today the company is the world leader in bag-in-box liquid packaging for the food, beverage, and industrial markets. With manufacturing locations on five continents and products that are sold in more than 60 countries, Scholle Packaging delivers high-quality packaging products and excellent customer service around the world.

More on IOPP: www.iopp.org
More on KeyKeg: www.keykeg.com
More on Scholle Packaging and Jerribox: http://www.scholle.com/

The Jerribox® has two key components, the exterior carton and the delivery system. The delivery system is composed of the inner plastic bag, plastic collar and push-button dispensing tap. The inner two-ply bag structure is a polyethylene/nylon blend. Once filled the rigid collar secures the inner bag to the exterior carton, providing support and easy access to the dispensing tap. The entire delivery system is provided to the processor in one pre-assembled compact cartridge.

The 150 liquid-ounce 100-load package is supplied by Scholle Packaging of Northlake, IL. According to Scholle Packaging’s Market Segment Director, Stephen Lopiano, “Vaska came to us asking for a new approach to packaging that guarantees an effective delivery of laundry liquids while being environmentally considerate. We are proud to help Vaska introduce the Jerribox®, the next generation package to the laundry category.”

Julia Fry, CEO of Vaska, sees the introduction of the Jerribox® as a necessary step. “Vaska’s approach to manufacturing is to create the safest, most effective laundry care products, and packaging is a key component. Scholle was a great collaborator because they share our environmental goals and our focus on performance.”

In addition to the Jerribox®, VASKA’s laundry line includes 48 oz and 96 oz lavender scented and unscented herbatergent™, oxybleach (non-chlorine), herbasoft fabric softener and spotoff spot remover. Many of VASKA’s products carry the EPA’s DfE seal and all are biodegradable and gray water safe.

Vaska is currently filling the Jerribox® with its lavender scented herbatergent. The Company plans to make the Jerribox® available to other retailers in 2010.

* Comparison derived from Simplified Environmental Impacts Calculator provided by The Dow Chemical Company.

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ABOUT SCHOLLE PACKAGING:

Scholle Packaging, The Pioneer of Bag-In-Box™, is the world leader in bag-in-box packaging for the food, beverage, and industrial markets. With manufacturing locations on five continents and products that are sold in more than 60 countries, Scholle Packaging delivers high-quality packaging products and excellent customer service around the world.