Top CEOs, challenges, issues are focus points for RISI North America event

摘要

From challenges to innovation and strategies from top industry CEOs, RISI's 30th annual North American Forest Products Conference runs on Sept. 28-30 in Chicago. The event includes PPI's annual global awards dinner on Sept. 28 as well as a special packaging buyers' seminar, a full-day on Sept. 29 of industry speakers on key topics, and RISI economists' two-year forecasts as well as a special Housing Demand panel discussion on Sept. 30. The conference is at the Intercontinental hotel. The first full day on Tuesday, Sept. 29, features the presenting of the 2015 RISI North American CEO of the Year award to Graphic Packaging's David Scheible, who has led the company through a significant financial recovery that included eight acquisitions and creating a more integrated box-board company, according to analysts who voted for Scheible.