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flexo and Langston Saturn III. The EMBA would replace both, and so Mendenhall conducted a rigorous study of McElroy’s business mix to determine the most effective configuration for the 295. Looking at the mix and quantities of smaller items ver- sus larger, Mendenhall and McElroy concluded that the greater gain for McElroy’s business would be in a larger machine. Larger-volume, smaller boxes, said Mendenhall, could be effectively run on the Apstar rotary die cutter and joined on the company’s 74” Post folder-gluer, freeing the new 295 for orders for high-volume larger blanks.
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“In the range of sheets that we were running, larg- er-size and larger volume orders fit into that category bet- ter than they would have on a smaller machine. That was our thought process on how we picked that machine.” The footprint of McElroy’s EMBA 295 can handle sheets as small as 12⅝” x 34” or as large as 55” x 114”. Menden- hall elaborated further on this point, saying that since typ- ical sheet-plant order quantities are all over the map, the EMBA 295’s faster set-up times also allows McElroy to run larger boxes but in smaller quantities. “Mostly I think the machine gave us the ability to cap- italize on smaller quantity, bigger sheets, because now we can set it up in a couple of minutes instead of 15,” he said. Indeed, Mendenhall and his production team are fast closing in on their target of five-minute setups: “We’ve cut our set-up times in half across all machines,” he said. “We want to be right around the five-minute mark on the 295.” From a production point of view, McElroy and Menden- hall praise the EMBA 295 for its speed, efficiency, and pro- ductivity. “When I look at the reports, it’s just about dou- bled our contribution dollars,” said McElroy. Mendenhall, for his part, cited the higher square footage, saying, “The MSF that I get off that machine per hour is almost double what I was getting before, too.” No single piece of converting equipment performs in isolation; it requires a supporting cast of well-specified an- CONTINUED ON PAGE 30 The EAM-Mosca SQ4 bundler easily handles the horsepower of the EMBA 295.
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