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Dura-Pack’s Creates Academic Scholarship Award

01-14-2020 04:04 PM CET | Business, Economy, Finances, Banking & Insurance

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TAYLOR, MI – JANUARY 14, 2020 – Dura-Pack, the industry-leading manufacturer of flexible packaging bags and equipment, has created a $3,000 essay-based academic scholarship for students that are either entering or are already enrolled in an accredited college or university. Essay topics focus on sustainability and environmental issues and how they relate to packaging waste.

“As a leading manufacturer of flexible packaging bags and equipment, we are consistently striving to adopt and implement environmentally friendly manufacturing practices and have tailored our essay topics to reflect our “Green” initiatives,” said Phillip Harrison, Vice President of Dura-Pack. “We have thoughtfully designed our essay topics to focus on environment and sustainability issues that are extremely prevalent today. We are strong believers that we are all stewards of the environment and that it is imperative that corporations adopt socially and environmentally responsible practices and ideologies”.

Scholarship applicants are free to choose from the following essay topics:
• Going Green – Why should more companies adopt environmentally friendly packaging?
• Do packaging recycling programs really work?
• The future of sustainable packaging.
• How do we reduce packaging waste in the world’s oceans?

Essays will be judged on the following criteria:
• Creativity (40%)
• Structure (20%)
• Grammar (10%)
• Length (10%)
• Adherence to Topic (10%)
• Wow Factor – Does the essay “wow” the reader for one reason or another (10%)

The scholarship award winner will be required to provide proof of successful acceptance to an accredited college or university. Payment will be made directly to the applicant’s college or university. For more information on the Dura-Pack Academic Scholarship, please visit www.dura-pack.com/scholarship.

Dura-Pack
7641 Holland Road
Taylor, MI 48180
Email tannis@dura-pack.com

ABOUT DURA-PACK
Founded in 1971 as Metro Scale Company, Dura-Pack is a third-generation family company specializing in packaging equipment and flexible packaging solutions. Housed in a 35,000 sq. ft. facility in Taylor, Michigan, Dura-Pack is a fully integrated company with in-house engineering, fabrication, electrical design, graphic design, and software development. Going beyond a simple tag line, ‘Driven by Cost, Defined by Quality’ reflects our commitment to valuing our customers’ investment without sacrificing quality. Rather than compromising service and outsourcing to lower costs, we marry elegant solutions with optimized in-house manufacturing processes. For more information, please visit www.dura-pack.com/scholarship.

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