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Millennium Packaging Selected As PPI's 2010 Distinguished Distributor

Millennium Packaging has been selected as the winner of PPI's 2010 Distinguished Distributor Award. Millennium Packaging, headquartered outside San Antonio with several branches throughout Texas, has represented Paper Pak Industries since 2001.

John Terrien, Paper Pak Industries' Vice President, Sales and Marketing, noted, "Millennium Packaging was selected as the inaugural winner of PPI's Distinguished Distributor Award based on Millennium Packaging's significant sales growth during the last decade and for their outstanding customer service to local grocery retailers. Millennium Packaging has consistently provided Texas and Southwest grocery retailers with the absorbent food safety product that is ideal for the particular packaging application."

Pictured Left to Right: Bob Bova, PPI's South Region Sales Manager; PPI's CEO and President Ron Jensen; Millennium Packaging Managing Partners Greg Payne and Bob Knoll; and John Terrien, PPI's Vice President, Sales and Marketing.

Millennium Packaging was founded in 2000 by packaging industry veterans Bob Knoll and Greg Payne. Today, the company represents nearly 250 different manufacturers and stocks over 3,000 different items in its five Texas warehouses. Mr. Knoll stated, "We are honored by the selection of Millennium Packaging as Paper Pak Industries' 2010 Distinguished Distributor. We are proud of our long-standing relationship with Paper Pak, a company that is recognized for its line of innovative absorbent food safety products."

PPI's commitment to innovation coupled with Millennium Packaging's expertise in the distribution of packaging products, has been instrumental to the companies' mutual success. Mr. Payne pointed to Paper Pak's development of an active absorbent food pad as an example of the two companies' strong business relationship. "Millennium Packaging continues to work closely with PPI's sales and technical teams to introduce Texas and Southwest retailers to UltraZapXtendaPak, a revolutionary active absorbent food pad. Our retail grocery customers are increasing their meat department sales and profitability by using UltraZapXtendaPak food safety pads in their store-packed fresh protein."

Millennium Packaging is currently introducing to the Texas and Southwest markets a new PPI absorbent product. UltraZapSpillGuard absorbent safety pads provide retailers and facility managers with a fast, safe way to initialize the clean up process and mark an area as a hazard to surrounding patrons and employees.

Sayandro Versteylen, Director of Product Technology

Paper Pak Industries' Director of Product Technology, Sayandro Versteylen, is responsible for all new product research and development functions, reporting directly to Ron Jensen, President and CEO of Paper Pak Industries.

"Sayandro brings a wealth of invaluable experience to Paper Pak's management team. We are pleased to have a food scientist with his qualifications assume this important role," said Mr. Jensen. "Sayandro provides a scientific benchmark for advancing Paper Pak's progress into new product areas and scientific achievements in the field of absorbent mediums not only for the food industry but other industries as well."

Mr. Versteylen joined PPI with eight years technical and regulatory experience in the poultry industry, most recently from Perdue Farms. There, he served as complex quality assurance manager with multi-plant responsibility involving turkey live operations, raw and marinated products for retail and food service, and fully cooked, ready-to-eat meats. He supervised a staff of 47 technicians and managers and was responsible for the quality assurance in a manufacturing complex that produced more than 50 million pounds of cooked products and processed more than 150 million pounds of raw turkey meat.

Prior to his Perdue Farms career, Mr. Versteylen worked at Gold Kist, the country's largest cooperative chicken company, where he served as quality assurance manager for a three-plant chicken complex. He was also responsible for maintaining all regulatory compliance with national safety agencies including the USDA.

"There's more science and technology in absorbent mediums than meets the eye. The potential for applying the product's technology is tremendous, not only in the food industry, but also in medical, automotive, medical and defense industries," explained Mr. Versteylen. "Paper Pak is a vibrant company with bright, professional people who have a global vision for where they want to take the company. I am excited and eager to explore new and different opportunities with them."

Mr. Versteylen received a B.S. degree in Chemistry from Catholic University of Lima in Lima, Peru and a M.S. degree in Chemistry from the University of Hamburg in Hamburg, Germany.

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