Smurfit Invest $40m In Latin America Business Smurfit Kappa is investing $40 million in its paper sacks business in Latin America, expanding and mod- ernizing its operations. The company said it was making the investment in response to market trends and the need for environ- mentally sustainable paper sacks.Among the planned work is the further modernization of machinery in Co- lombia, with a new machine already installed at the Palmira facility and fully operational. The $9.5 million investment has increased capacity at the plant by 100 million paper sacks per year, and reportedly improved quality. Smurfit plans to modern- ize sack paper machinery in Cali, Colombia, with a $19 million investment that will increase production capacity as well as the quality and performance of the sacks paper. In Costa Rica, a $1 million investment is set to further improve the plant in San José.The company said a new flexographic printer is ready for installation there. Wasatch Container Opens Doors For AICC Members Founded in 1995, Wasatch Container is a custom packaging design and manufacturer in Salt Lake City, Utah.Wasatch specializes in corrugated shipping box- es, retail boxes, point of purchase displays, foam fab- rication, and wooden crates.The company opened its doors, virtually, to more than 300 AICC members. The tour was guided by Jerry Frisch, the founder of Wasatch Container. After a brief company history, Frisch invited the second generation of Wasatch Con- tainer, Lauren and Ryan Frisch, to give an overview of some of the company’s specialties. Frisch then walked participants onto the floor of their original building, a 30,000-square-foot facility built in 1995, which houses its mini flexo folder gluer, a 50-inch flexo, several rotary die-cutters, unitizers, and several other machines in their compact space. The tour then moved onto the design department, sharing their 2-D and 3-D rendering capabilities and their new, high-speed CAD cutting table.After a visit to Wasatch’s ink kitchen, and spending time at each ma- chine, the tour moved to the other buildings that house their crate and foam divisions. In the foam space, Frisch showed how they do die-less die cutting and how their waterjet die cutter works and other foam fabrication. AICC’s upcoming virtual tours include The BoxMak- er in Kent, Washington, on Wednesday, February 17, and Utah PaperBox in Salt Lake City, Utah, on Tuesday, March 9.
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