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Getting Personal With Suzanne Zaccone

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May 30, 2006, ... one time or another. At a Glance Graphic Solutions Intl. 311 Shore Dr. Burr Ridge, IL 60527 graphicsolutionsinc.com Founded 1985 2 Plants 115 employees Specialties include p-s labels, ...

Facing a Slowdown

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December 30, 2005, ... of their products from outside North America. “Packaging, by and large, needs to be supplied locally,” McLellend says, “so to the extent that a converter’s customer’s production facility is offshore, the ...

Churning Out Quality

(Flexpack)

August 30, 2005, ... in the seafood market and competes mainly with rotogravure from the Orient. Notes Frank, “Our flexo is very close to their gravure, but we have the ability to supply both. Having partnered with an off-shore ...

Are We Outsourcing our Future?

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July 30, 2005, ... if you were reading US patents, you could see this foreign competition coming well in advance. As the competition came to our shores, many American companies reduced their R&D spending to stay competitive ...

Laboring Lean

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July 30, 2005, ... 25% over previous production standards—realized after only 11 weeks of operation. The tool is expected to help keep the company competitive both offshore and at home. More and more, Lean Manufacturing ...

Always the Student

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May 30, 2005, ... about 50% of its sales volume in 2003—how its customers can be more successful on both home soil and foreign shores. The connection or the missing link I’ve been searching for over the last year or so ...

Positive Projections

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May 30, 2005, ... of production off-shore." (See Figure 2). Loss of markets to off-shore manufacturing remains one of the biggest concerns of paperboard packaging converters. Folding carton shipments in 2003 were $8.5 ...

The Board Identity

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April 29, 2005, ... the association’s annual spring meeting, held March 23–25 at the Omni Shoreham Hotel in Washington, DC. Business sessions began with committee meetings. The Industry Information Committee discussed proposed ...

More History in the Making

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March 30, 2005, ... in the last 6 months? A total of 228 respondents, or 56%, said yes, with 176, or 43%, saying no. Three did not respond, but there is obvious movement of business to offshore locations with more than half ...

What to Do in Chicago While Attending CMM

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February 27, 2005, ... Intl. "The coolest place to visit for adults, who are kids at heart has to be the Museum of Science & Industry, 5700 S. Lake Shore Dr. What other place has a plane, helicopter, Zephyr locomotive, and ...

Technology - The Great Equalizer

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February 27, 2005, ... however, they hold their own in the just-in-time delivery of premium quality products. In the case of North and South America, competing against offshore low wages often can be a matter of a very long ...

Conference Alongside CMM Focuses on CPG/Converter Value Chain Relationship

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February 03, 2005, ... Packaging Converting Competition Into Opportunity: Evaluating Off-Shore Supplier-Partner Alliances Creating Competitive Workflow Advantages for Consumer Packaged Goods Producers Networking Luncheon ...

Wanted: US Markets

(Flexpack)

December 30, 2004, ... added and sparsely produced by American converters, and sell directly; or arrange a joint venture with a US company. There are many "niche" areas offshore converters can exploit. Shaped and spouted flexible ...

Hit the Brakes!

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December 30, 2004, ...  Demographics plays an important part in the decision to offshore production for Western European countries. "The population of Western Europe is aging and shrinking," says Dr. Llewellyn. "By 2050, more ...

Digital Gone Wide

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December 30, 2004, ... were looking for an opportunity to increase our customer base through our print capability. A lot of the industry [that was] in this area is no longer here, because it has moved off shore or doesn’t exist ...

Lasers Beam

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September 29, 2004, ... clear to us that US-based converting cannot stay indefinitely with mechanical tooling. Product cyles are now too short to justify tooling for on-shore converting operations. At the same time, the advent ...

Converting Industry News, Part 2

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September 29, 2004, ... entertainment media packages were Shorewood Packaging, AGI Media, Pozzoli SPA, Stoughton, and 30sixty Design. The next edition of EMX is slated for Aug. 29–31, 2005, at the Hollywood Renaissance Hotel. ...

The Buzz on Remote Diagnostics

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August 30, 2004, ... remote diagnostics. Once the subject of remote diagnostics is introduced, the first few bits of conversation usually will concern the use of offshore call centers, which are becoming more common with ...

TLMI Scholarship Golf Challenge: 5th Straight Success

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August 05, 2004, ... to Tarsus, 106 suppliers and converters attended this year's challenge, which took place July 19, 2004, at the Lake Barrington Shores Golf Club in Barrington (near Chicago), IL, USA. The winning team included ...

Roots & Realized Dreams

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July 30, 2004, ... multi-operation de-ink market-pulp production, papermaking, and converting corporation, with not only several plants in the US, but with an offshore location in Europe, too. “We operate a recycled pulp ...