Customer Training

Weyerhaeuser provides extensive Chips-to-Cartons training to our most valued customers on topics related to the paperboard industry. Classes are offered several times a year at our facility or yours. Modules vary in length and can be combined to create an educational package tailored especially to meet your needs. The course objectives include:

• Chips to Cartons: Creating a Customer Line of Sight Create mutual success by understanding how liquid packaging board influences end-use properties of gable-top cartons.
• Paperboard Process Overview Receive an introduction to the process of boardmaking at Longview.
• Measuring Quality Understand measurement techniques used to optimize quality during liquid packaging board manufacturing.
• Runnability Learn the fundamentals of improving liquid packaging board and converting performance.
• Printability Receive an introduction to the science of liquid packaging board printability.
• Handling Durability Learn how cartons are engineered to survive handling without damage or leakage.
• Transportation Durability Learn how cartons survive vehicle transportation without leakage and how to improve durability.
• Carton Bulge Learn how cartons are engineered to control bulges.
• Grip Firmness Understand how cartons are engineered to be firm and easy to hold.
• Wet Spots Learn how to avoid wet spots on the bottoms of gable-top cartons.
• Hygiene and Appearance Understand how health and appearance criteria influence the manufacturing of liquid packaging board.