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The Foundation for Packaging Education’s 32 donor companies and individuals have pledged more than $2.7 million to the Foundation’s cause. The fundraiser will be an annual event. Plans are already underway for next year,
SAUER SYSTEM www.sauersystem.com
Sauer provides intelligent solutions for scoring, slitting, slit-scoring, and perforating on corrugators and floor slitters; and glue tab cutting, creasing, slotting, trimming and scrap chopping on presses. New, featured offerings include FRX Adjustable Folding Rail System and G3 Scoring System: the latest proven creasing technology on the market.
STAFFORD GROUP www.go2stafford.com
Interactive website for Stafford Corrugated Products and Stafford Cutting Dies. Featuring online ordering of replace- ment parts. Also, visitors can automatically calculate sheet size for most die-cut standards.
which will bring the Foundation’s donors, supporters and friends to another exciting location and another unique experience. For more information, visit PackagingEd.org . NAM’s COO Explains Cybersecurity Threats In Manufacturing Podcast What should manufacturers know about cybersecurity threats? The National Association of Manufacturers Chief A small group of avid golfers braved the elements to play the world-class golf course at the Sanctuary Resort on Kiawah Is- land in South Carolina.
SUN AUTOMATION GROUP ® www.sunautomation.com
SUN Automation Group is the global leader in providing innovative solutions to the corrugated industry. SUN engi- neers and builds the SUN625 Rotary Die Cutter, provides sales, service and support in North and Central America for Latitude Machinery Corporation, manufacturer of Mini to Jumbo FFG and RDCs. Additionally, SUN is the North Amer- ican, UK and Ireland sales and service provider for Para Machinery’s line of equipment, and is the North American sales provider for Highcon. SUN also powers the corrugat- ed industry’s premier IIoT platform, Helios, and is the OEM source for Langston/Staley equipment parts and service. THACKER INDUSTRIAL SERVICE COMPANY www.thackerindustrial.com Specializing in corrugated machinery, T.I.S.CO. offers quali- ty-made products, support services, and more. T.I.S.CO. has a reputation of dependability, not only in the product, but in service and support. With more than 25 years’ experience, T.I.S.CO. installs equipment and machinery, moves or sets up entire plants, rewires and rebuilds - all over the world. VT GROUP www.vtgrouponline.com VT offers prepress services for the POP display and corru- gated shipping container industry including graphic design, optimized digitally imaged printing plates and innovative pre-mounting solutions. Our large-format digital printing fa- cility (Digital Impact) is a leading short-run manufacturer of distinctive POP displays and signage where litho-like graph-
Operating Officer Todd Boppell recently appeared on Mandiant’s “Defender’s Advantage Podcast” to explain how cyber criminals are targeting manufacturers today and what companies can do to protect themselves. While cyberthreats are noth- ing new, in recent years there has
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been a sea change, Boppell said. “I think what’s really changed in the past five years, especially — it probably started in the past 10, but it’s massively accelerated — is that cybercrime as a business model is on the rise,” he said. A lot of the bad guys, whether their motivations are political or purely economic, have realized that ransom- ware and other forms of pure disruption are sometimes just as helpful or just as lucrative as stealing any sort of intellectual property.” Manufacturers get victimized by ransomware attacks because manufacturing is one of the least tolerant indus- tries of any sort of downtime. “Over the past five years, manufacturing was always in the top three sectors target- ed by cyber criminals, but really over the past 18 to 24 months, all the data I have seen says that manufacturing has jumped to number one and has stayed there.”
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WPR Services was established in 2016. What originally start- ed as a technical services company expanded its product offerings to include a machine center learning platform POWtalk™. Our analysis of video, audio, machine metrics, employee ergometrics, and person to person conversation provides a way to identify safety and process inefficiencies.
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