Kruger Packaging’s Legacy (CONT’D FROM PAGE 42)
four-level rack system is located between the corrugator and converting and has a footprint of about 15,000 square feet, which includes 288 cells and can store approximately eight million square feet of product in-process.
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Sheets coming off the Fosber go directly into the WIP warehouse or downstream to converting or to shipping, where they are strapped and prepared for delivery. Etown has two shipping lines with load doublers, pallet inserters, and EAM Mosca unitizers and palletizers. The Future Is Now Seizing every opportunity to leverage the newest and most cutting-edge technologies, Kruger Packaging is em- bracing Augmented Reality as a training tool. Similar to the equipment used by surgeons performing operations, the “technology” consists of wearable computer glasses that displays visual information to the real world the wearer sees. Unlike Virtual Reality headsets, which take the user to a different world altogether, Augmented Reality glasses superimpose a layer of digital content onto a natural en- vironment or enhances that environment by adding new information. Kruger is using the technology for training purposes by having new employees walk around the pro- duction floor while looking at and learning information on machinery and safety procedures they see while wearing the computer glasses. Kruger implemented the initiative about three years ago and is believed to have been the first in the North American corrugated industry to employ the technology, finding it especially useful with younger employees and Gen Zers, who “take very quickly to the technology” be- cause they have grown up with video games, computers, and cell phones. The company has seen a significant ROI with the time, money and human resources it is allocating to onboarding and training. After 120 years, Kruger continues to exemplify corru- gated industry success in both Canada and the United States. Echoing the words of Kruger’s Special Consultant, Serge Desgagnes, “It is indeed a very good time to be in the containerboard business.” Material transport is fully automated from the corrugator to finished goods and integrates a vertical WIP warehouse from WSA-USA.
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