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plant flooded; a transformer down the road from the plant blew up, which resulted in a cost of $300,000 to repair or replace drives and motors on Acme’s equipment; a water main break flooded the plant; and then there was a small fire in the plant. The standing joke was “the only thing missing was a plague of locusts!” “All in all, our guys did a tremendous job of keeping us up and running,” says Bob. “And this was in the heart of
of printing four colors, thus making it Acme’s third piece of equipment with four-color printing and one of seven con- verting lines that provides flexo folding gluing in addition to diecutting. Jeremy Cohen says Isowa’s team ensured the Falcon would deliver proper setups and was calibrated accurate- ly before employee training. The training consisted of a “hands-on” component followed by classroom course work on safety and several days of application. “So far, the Falcon is exceeding expectations,” he says. In fact, Isowa said our installation was one of the smoothest startups in Falcon history.” Expect the Unexpected As one might imagine, planning and executing an expansion project of this magnitude was unbelievably time-consuming. Jeremy relates, “I can’t count the num- bers of hours and the number of calls we were on to dis- cuss the details of the project and to make sure the rack system fit, to make sure the building design was right, to make sure it fit in the pits, to make sure we had the sprin- kler systems to meet code at the rack height, to make sure the sprinklers didn’t interfere with the product when it was in the rack...” But everything didn’t always go as expected. Approximately 20,000 square-feet of Acme’s roof was opened up during construction, so whenever it rained the
the pandemic when demand was great and we weren’t producing the way we’d been. More importantly, we kept our clients supplied throughout. “And like everyone else in the box business, we were Even the scrap transfer cars in Acme’s plant are automated.
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