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GFI Innovations and The Oldham Group Expand Agreement

(News | New Products)

May 23, 2015, ... situation for The Oldham Group and its customers. There is pressure on printers from every direction to improve color accuracy and control. Having just-in-time spot color brings enormous efficiencies to ...

HP and KBA Joint Effort to Aid Corrugated Preprint

(Corrugated)

March 18, 2015, ... serving major retail brands will especially benefit from this digital preprint solution for all corrugated print applications, since brands are increasingly requiring just-in-time inventory, shorter runs, ...

Changing Packaging Trends in Japan Detailed in New Study

(News | New Products)

January 25, 2015, ... to carry a wide product range but fewer SKUs. Retailers are aggressively deploying Just-In-Time (JIT) supply chain management and exerting pressure on their suppliers for smaller product shipments that ...

Specialized Packaging Sells Some Canadian Operations

(News | New Products)

December 23, 2013, GAB Packaging has purchased three of company’s operations in eastern Canada, allowing SPG to increase focus on non-fiber business units   MONTREAL, QC, CANADA | Specialized Packaging Group (SPG) ...

Inventory Management | Why MRO & Spare Parts Inventory Is Different

(Trends/Management)

June 06, 2013, ... chain velocity (that is, speeding up the flow of an item through the entire supply chain from source to user), Just-In-Time (JIT), ABC analysis, MRP, software algorithms, and even managing for profit per ...

Future Pack Acquires Two Omet Presses

(News | New Products)

March 20, 2013, ... waste and handle any kind of order, from just-in-time deliveries to long print runs, with no major impact on the machine operation, which is quickly set up and ready to print. One first ten-color XFlex ...

Flexo Printing | Multiprint Installs Gallus RCS 430

(Label/Tape)

November 07, 2012, ... labels has been changing over the past few years from holding stock of regular labels to just-in-time (JIT) logistics, which means label jobs must be turned around in about three days instead of having ...

PRPflexo Releases Online Estimating Program

(Carton Box)

September 25, 2012, ... to get quotes. By offering the ability to individualize and compare plate and other product choices online 24-7, they can create just-in-time estimates themselves, increasing their productivity levels ...

UFLEX Reports New Film Plant

(Flexpack)

July 03, 2012, With a new polyester plant in Poland, UFLEX continues its strategy to locate manufacturing near film markets to offer customers just-in-time delivery   NOIDA, INDIA | The UFLEX Group, manufacturer ...

Carton/Box | Heavyweight SBS Is Ready to Print

(Carton Box)

March 26, 2012, ... Graphics Saving 4-5 Days Lead Time “With more customers relying on Just-In-Time inventory and delivery, we wanted a faster, more cost-effective process than shipping thin SBS sheets to a mounter to create ...

Looking South

(Label/Tape)

October 31, 2010, ... and also by the extensive destocking seen in the past year at all levels of the supply chain as a result of the global financial crisis. This has created a new definition of just-in-time manufacturing. ...

Coating/Laminating: Signed, Sealed, Delivered

(Coating/Laminating)

September 30, 2010, ... has been able to reduce lead times to less than two weeks. A large part of Selig's business is just-in-time stock, and some of that can be turned over in less than one week for several customers. Another ...

Board Printing: Quality Is Key

(Carton Box)

February 28, 2010, ... and biodegradable. The inks are environmentally friendly, and the varnishes are water-based. Adds Filho, “With just-in-time delivery, we are able to fill requests quickly while keeping costs low. These ...

Digital Printing, Part 1 | Technology

(Process Management)

September 30, 2009, ... directed at the converting market open up new opportunities for packaging printers with just-in-time printing and economic short runs. Digital Printing Overview There are three primary digital solutions: ...

Xeikon 3300 Wins 2009 InterTechTM Technology Award

(News Eclips)

September 02, 2009, ... production of short to medium runs and just-in-time jobs. According to Michael V. Ring, vice president of sales and chief marketing officer of Xeikon's North American operations, "The Xeikon 3300 is challenging ...

Pack Expo Co-Locates with CPP and Other Events for Value

(News | New Products)

August 30, 2009, ... Ltd.’s (Booth # C-3105) HIPAK boxmaker provides the flexibility needed to produce short to medium runs of 'Just-In-Time' corrugated boxes. With a set-up time of only a few seconds, boxes of virtually any ...

Digital Pay Off

(Digital)

June 30, 2009, ... and a monthly duty cycle of 2.3 million ft, it's considered an extremely fast and reliable digital five-color label press, particularly suited for short-to-medium print runs and just-in-time jobs. Four ...

Reduce & Reuse

(Extrusion Coating)

November 30, 2008, ... are driving change. Both margins and methodology are under pressure in an environment of rising raw material costs coupled with aggressive end-user buying, more just-in-time deliveries, shorter production ...

Door to Door QC

(Coating/Laminating)

September 30, 2008, ... large run sizes while providing just-in-time inventory techniques to its customer base. “We become a virtual extension of our customer's manufacturing process by using our team of engineers, project managers, ...

Earth-Friendly Print

(Print)

August 31, 2008, ... (as opposed to the old just-in-time practices). Source Reduction The best way to handle waste is to prevent its occurrence. Lean manufacturing is a great approach. Strategies such as providing on-site ...