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wanted assets. The focus is on tuning up their accounting balance sheets. The big improvements, the one that truly drives talent and disruptive technology changes, are more expensive and harder to find. Relying on future trends or profits from surveys or spreadsheets are by no means per- fect indicators of how high you bounce if you hit bottom. Besides, requests for solutions with entrepreneurial pur- chases can be a tad painted by partisan views. “To be proficient in our competitive industry today re- quires more investment in education or training such as R&D, AI (Artificial Intelligence), apprenticeships, etc. The lack of R&D funding by integrated U.S. paper mills board rooms has decreased from three percent to one percent of sales. Any wonder that manufacturing with quality ma- chinery with digital longer productive life spans is expen- sive and imported? Goods “Made in the USA” now means only 50 percent or so local content. Will some of our cus- tomers’ products be next? We’re way past the low-hanging fruit, trying to build world class tools and systems that will get us to the tippy-top of the tree. “The current exchanges of claimed benefits of prod- ucts, jobs, and services can be like sausages. It’s better not to see them being made. Applying moral equivalence to their selling process with sausage making, is a profound insult to sausage making. But as the saying goes, when one door closes another opens. For years we have kept our company’s debt to equity ratio very low. This enables us, with very little financing, to add new machinery, con- veyors, build a 40,000-square-foot roll stock warehouse, for Mesa, Arizona, plus $900,000 for 400 employees Christmas bonuses. If you, the reader, in 2023 feels a bit insecure due to ‘everyone wants instant everything,’ then it pays to think “On Time with Quality, No Excuses” with flexibility, more, but smaller, purchase orders and adapt- ability. It’s a brutal market strategy that paper mill conglom- erates dare not exert. Our past is history, the present a bit of a mystery, and the future is an intensifying change.” HARRIS PACKAGING Haltom City, Texas: Jana Harris reports, “Whenever I am asked about what I anticipate in the upcoming year, I usu-
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ally slightly cringe, especially after the last few crazy and unprece- dented years we have had. Who would have thought in Decem- ber of 2019 that a prediction for 2020 would include a pandemic which caused all kinds of health and staffing issues? Then we had a short time where only essential
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workers were allowed to stay open, which hurt some of our customers. And then, ultimately, the drastic boom in our industry. All of us became extremely busy. “It seemed that people were using their stimulus Jana Harris CONTINUED ON PAGE 32
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