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How One Manufacturing Company Is Helping First Responders This Memorial Day
Connecticut-based Packaging and Crating Technologies is raising money for the Tunnels to Towers Foundation, which provides mortgage-free homes for Gold Star and fallen first-responder families.
By Rodger Mort
May 13, 2024
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by Rodger Mort
Rodger Mort is chief operating officer at Packaging And Crating Technologies, a global manufacturer of sustainable, corrugated cardboard packaging containers for the commercial, industrial and military industries. Mort brings nearly 40 years of green packaging experience to the industry with a specialty of designing paper-based packaging material that suppresses and controls lithium-ion battery fires by mitigating thermal runaway. Visit www.pactww.com, call 203-759-1799 or schedule a visit to the company located at 1100 Buckingham Street in Watertown, Conn. for more information.
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