Labor and Packaging: Prime Cuts for Lean Manufacturers

Leaning the Way to the Line The word lean doesn’t seem to fit a company that calls itself a full-service flexible packaging manufacturer. After all, American Packaging Corporation relies on three different sites to do extrusion lamination and coating, flexographic printing and rotogravure printing. The rotogravure site alone, located in Columbus, Wis., houses multiple eight- and ten-color rotogravure presses, each requiring a lot of space to accommodate loading and unloading ...