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cent), investing in new equipment (51.7 percent), investing in new technologies (46.6 percent) and research and de- velopment (44.9 percent). When considering their future growth strategies, man- ufacturers identified a stronger domestic economy for growing sales (69.5 percent), increased efficiencies in the production process (67.8 percent) and maintaining a ro- bust and trained workforce (67.0 percent) as the most sig- nificant factors in contributing to expansion. Greg Kishbaugh is a Contributing Editor to BCN. Amazon Announces New Fulfillment Center To Eliminate Plastic Packaging Seattle, Washington based Amazon announced its first au- tomated U.S. fulfillment center to eliminate plastic delivery packing as part of a multiyear effort to convert U.S. fulfill- ment centers to paper. Amazon’s fulfillment center in Euclid, Ohio is the first in the U.S. to replace plastic delivery packaging with paper packaging solutions that are curbside recyclable.
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Amazon has traditionally used a mix of plastic and pa- per packaging to optimize for durability, weight, and size. Since recycling plastic packaging generally requires cus- tomers to use a drop-off location, Amazon’s packaging engineers have been researching and experimenting for years to develop solutions to deliver products to custom- ers with paper. By rebuilding existing machines to use paper instead of plastic, creating durable and flexible paper packaging, improving made-to-fit technology, and transitioning from plastic air pillows to paper filler, the team enabled the Eu- clid fulfillment center to transition fully to paper packaging. “This is a major milestone for our U.S. fulfillment cen- ters, and I’m incredibly proud of the teams that developed new technologies to eliminate plastic packaging,” said Pat Lindner, VP of Mechatronics and Sustainable Packaging at Amazon. “This is just the beginning, as we continue to discover
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