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Wide-Ranging European Converter Keeps on Moving

(Magazine)

October 31, 2000, ... retailers include Pryca and Continente, which has a large stock of private label products. These retailers demand superb print quality and "just-in-time" delivery. Enplater has devoted a significant amount ...

Takin' Care of Business: How the Industry Does It

(Magazine)

September 30, 2000, ...  With all the other things going on at your operation—meeting just-in-time demands, complying with Environmental Protection Agency regs, keeping up with new technology, etc.—it seems like a lot of work ...

A Q&A on Remanufactured Equipment: Is It for You?

(Magazine)

September 30, 2000, ... as they do to what's in it. So brand managers and print buyers demand higher quality graphics, more flexibility, and just-in-time delivery. To position themselves to meet these demands, printers must take ...

Anilox Rolls Are Key When Printing Corrugated Board

(Print)

July 31, 2000, ... be a reliable partner for its customers in every way, including just-in-time delivery. To achieve this, the entire organization is tightly structured and certified according to both ISO-9001 and ISO-9002 ...

Box Plant Rises from the Ashes to New Heights

(Magazine)

May 31, 2000, ... most of our customers have focused on inventory control as a primary cost-cutter. Today, our challenge as a boxmaker is to provide just-in-time service without sacrificing anything on quality." Because ...

Latest Gravure Technology Launches Converter into Fray

(Magazine)

April 30, 2000, ...  the very high cost of cylinders. Secondly, in order to make it economically viable, we'd have to ask a customer to print ten gazillion impressions, and when we were moving into a period of just-in-tim ...

Shorter Turnaround Time Drives Move to CTP

(Magazine)

January 31, 2000, ... die-cut, and glue all products within a very short lead time in order to fulfill the just-in-time inventory requirements of its customers. A Heidelberg/Creo computer-to-plate (CTP) system is now part of ...

A rather narrow-minded view of wide web printing.

(Magazine)

May 31, 1996, ... customers are ordering lower and lower quantities, driving down inventories with just-in-time ordering strategies. Graphics needs are also changing. Gone are the days of simple line art packaging. Now, ...

In-house sheeting promotes growth and quality

(Magazine)

February 29, 1996, ... for the horticultural market. The common bond that links Hammer's customers together is their need for high quality, multicolor print work along with prompt service to satisfy just-in-time manufacturing ...

Deciphering the complexities of the core/shaft/unwind relationship.

(Magazine)

January 31, 1996, ... different size cores that are being utilized today. Machines with just-in-time production schedules are required to be more versatile and to run a wider variety of different materials in smaller quantities ...

Examining trends in drives and motors

(Magazine)

December 31, 1995, ... or deceleration." The new technology also allows for increased levels of customer support. With the emphasis on just-in-time production, downtime is unacceptable. With today's systems, if the machine ...

"Partnering" helps get press up to spee

(Magazine)

November 30, 1995, ... a huge just-in-time order to a major manufacturer. The job, to be printed on matte, clear PS, was complicated. It first required the laydown of an opaque color, followed by the laydown of four additional ...

Strong growth predicted for flex-pack industry

(Magazine)

March 31, 1995, ... reached zero. Some bag suppliers rationed shipments as they tried to keep up with increasing demand. Just-in-time inventories fell by the wayside amid production increases. As a result, converters' ...

Familiarity with change no surprise in this industry

(Magazine)

February 28, 1995, ...  customers require just-in-time delivery. We encourage that because we can help our customer by having product in stock for him, and the customer doesn't have to carry a huge inventory. You don't see peopl ...

Traditions fall as prepress moves into electronic age

(Magazine)

December 31, 1994, ... of the reasons for moving from traditional to electronic prepress are the same reasons many other business processes are being revamped in the 1990s. Just-in-time inventory, quality, quick turnaround, ...