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Converting Industry News

(Magazine)

July 30, 2005, ... of intent to be acquired by Barry-Wehmiller Cos., St. Louis, MO. Barry-Wehmiller, with more than 2,800 employees, has three main areas of expertise: packaging automation, corrugating, and sheeting equipment; ...

Laboring Lean

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July 30, 2005, ... to promote a feeling of parity, fostering a sense of pride and achievement among operators. Sparking Pit-Crew Mentality The real-time data provided by RedHawk helped Dura-Fibre employees understand ...

Positive Projections

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May 30, 2005, ... 736 million sq ft of combined board in 2004 compared to 714 million sq ft in 2003. Overall, productivity in 2004 was 2,740 sq ft per production man-hour. The number of employees in the industry production: ...

Long-Run Liners

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February 27, 2005, ... it, etc.," says Reid. "We can put employees with less experience on the RDP, as it’s more forgiving. The oldest press we have is the hardest to set, and each press gets easier and easier. By far, the RDP ...

More than Nuts & Bolts

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November 29, 2004, ... spent on employees in the past has been lost due to reductions in force. Many companies cannot afford to develop in-house programs that commit their resources of labor and time. Yet training and efficiency ...

Printing: Italian Style

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August 30, 2004, ... employees, €26 million annual turnover, and converts film and bags for frozen foods, vacuum-packed processed meats, rice, pasta, cheese, and baked goods. Key customers are Nestlé and Danone. It primarily ...

Roots & Realized Dreams

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July 30, 2004, ... its continuous expansion and the development of its self-proclaimed niche — specialty, lightweight paper and packaging — in terms of both technology and equipment upgrades as well as in its employees. ...

The Latitudes of LEAN

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June 29, 2004, ... reason for doing this. “This” being lean manufacturing, standardizing work, training employees in Six Sigma, utilizing kanban organizational cards, or implementing “5s,” workplace organization/housekeeping ...

Keeping Score

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June 29, 2004, Using incentives to motivate employees pays off for Consolidated Label, named "Best Managed Company" by TLMI. Using incentives to motivate employees pays off for Consolidated Label, named "Best Managed Company" ...

Fast & Flawless

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April 29, 2004, ... So, you have a labor-saving factor and an employee-safety factor. The four operator screens give you the ability to walk around the machine and adjust speed or tension while it is running, rather than ...

High & Low

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March 30, 2004, ... materials with ten US and Canadian facilities and more than 250 employees. With gravure and flexo presses that can print as many as ten colors, the Toronto facility coats, prints, and laminates on paper, ...

Competitive Investment Strategies for Packaging Converters

(News | New Products)

March 08, 2004, ... of the process Not tuning in to the three basic "E" components present in each process Equipment—capacity and suitability Employees—temperament, skills, and aptitude Environment—ambience ...

Success Personified

(Flexpack)

February 28, 2004, ... is turning dreams into reality. The story of Packaging Personified begins in 1975 with two hard-working Sears employees. With 30 years of combined experience coordinating third-party packaging for the ...

Bottleneck Breakthrough

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November 30, 2003, ... solutions from Dalim Software. Alcan Packaging Teningen is accustomed to offering packaging solutions to top-brand customers. But as work volume inside its 50-employee prepress operation grew, the company ...

Products

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October 30, 2003, ... are automatically personalized and modified continually, based on employee progress. Programs include Adobe Photoshop, QuarkXPress, Enfocus PitStop Professional, Creo Preps, and soon will add Mac OS X ...

Demand Creates More Computer-Based Training Offerings from Rockwell

(News | New Products)

June 17, 2003, ... training alternatives and depth of subject matter. States Rockwell's release: "Ideal for manufacturers with time, travel, or budget limitations, these self-paced/self-directed training programs allow employees ...

Global Packaging Market

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January 31, 2003, ... Paid Off Of the 100,000 companies operating in the industry (with some five million employees), the top 100 companies accounted for approximately 45% of world packaging sales in 2000. However, the top ...

Technology Improvements and Emerging Markets Drive Growth in Metallizing

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January 31, 2003, ... employees take the boxes home to use as coolers for food and beverages and sunshades for their cars. During the recent holiday season, shoppers throughout the world saw holographic CDs produced by Proma ...

Neither Boom Nor Bust

(Magazine)

December 31, 2002, ... Fry identifies them as “rising oil prices, declining stock prices, and a reluctance of businesses to hire more employees amid the uncertainties about the recovery and the concerns about a possible war ...

The Third Wave: An Iron Tale about the Business of Print, Vol. 11

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October 31, 2002, ... through-flow make product and workflow match incoming customer demand through achieving pull pursuit of perfection is the realization by the employees involved that there is no end to the process of ...