Corrugated Packaging Division Technical Award and Bettendorf Prize.

Raymond R. Shultz, director of quality for Beacon Container Corp. in Birdsboro, Pennsylvania, been selected to receive the 2005 TAPPI Corrugated Packaging Division Technical Award and Bettendorf Prize. The award, the highest technical honor bestowed by the division, was presented at the TAPPI Corrugated Packaging Conference, September 26-27, 2005 in Las Vegas.

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Shultz began his career in 1965 as a design engineer for Reading Industrial Equipment. He joined Beacon Container in 1974 and has served as plant engineer, sales service manager, general manager and director of quality over the past thirty one years.

His areas of expertise include roll stock storage, adhesive systems, singlefacer, doublefacer, dry end, conveyors, unitizers, flexo folder-gluer, diecutting, printing, management and HR, sales and marketing, maintenance, raw materials, quality and testing, process control, ISO 9000, total quality management, corrugated shipping containers; and package performance testing.

Shultz has been a TAPPI member since 1986, and has been active in the Process Control and Quality Assurance Committee. He served as that committee's chair from 2001 through 2003. In addition, he has served on the Corrugated Board Technical Service Committee, the Fiberboard Shipping Container Testing Committee, and the Delaware Valley Local Section. In addition to volunteering his time to these committees, Shultz also serves as an expert in TAPPI's online Ask the Experts program, sharing his knowledge and expertise with other TAPPI members.

In addition to his TAPPI activities, Shultz is a senior member and Vice Chair of the Reading Section of ASQ. In addition, he is a long-time member of IOPP, which has recognized him as a Certified Packaging Professional and as a member of the College of Fellows.