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with clean, repeatable cuts. On the front end is an Alliance jumbo bottom sheet feeder featuring adjustable pickup height and stroke for variable flute/board thickness and suited for automatically feeding large sheets. It is after all, feeding a hungry “jumbo” converting machine. “Look at the size of the boxes going in here,” remarked CalBox General Manager, Nick Widera, who is John’s nephew and Chris’ cousin, as he surveyed the jumbo’s performance. Have you ever seen boxes this big? Have you ever seen a machine this big? This is bigger than our old one and it’s working beautifully.” CalBox I’s climate-controlled digital “clean room” is completely enclosed, thus allowing the company to satisfy increasing customer demand for digitally printed dust-free corrugated sheets. The modern digital center houses a state-of-the-art Elitron Kombo TAV cutter and a Durst Dig- ital Printer. (Longer runs are performed on litho laminators that compete with pre-print.)
ARC INTERNATIONAL www.ARCInternational.com
ARC International is a world leader in the manufacturing of roller products for flexography. The latest nano-technology laser engraving in our NC and NV manufacturing facilities ensures superior quality and consistency in anilox rollers.
AES (ADVANCED EQUIPMENT SALES) www.aesales.net
AES is a leading full-service provider of integrated convey- ance systems specializing in scrap, trim, and dust. AES en- gineers custom scrap systems and works as a partner in process improvement to help businesses achieve greater profitability, productivity, and sustainability. Products include balers, shredders/hoggers, core shredders, filters, fans, and specialized dust control and collection systems. AES is the ex- clusive distributor for the AirShark Rotary Material Separator. For a wide variety of new and used equipment on to- day’s market, visit our website at www.acm-corp.com. BAUMER HHS CORPORATION www.baumerhhs.com hhs is a global leader in advanced gluing, camera verifica- tion and quality assurance systems for the packaging indus- try. Zero-defect quality and elevated production speeds are key parameters in the manufacturing of corrugated boxes. With hhs Xcam Box Monitoring and non-contact flap gluing of corrugated board, hhs offers every option for quality as- surance in the production of boxes with flexo folder gluers. AMERICAN CORRUGATED MACHINE www.acm-corp.com BLOWER APPLICATION COMPANY (BLOAPCO) www.BloApCo.com BloApCo has served the corrugated industry since 1933 with a variety of scrap handling solutions, including Hori- zontal Floor Shredders, Trim Cutters, and Material Handling Fans and Conveying Systems. BloApCo Shredders allow for continuous shredding and pneumatic removal of sheet waste stacks of all sizes, roll slab, cores, and carton scrap.
The entrepreneurial Wideras insist on using Amtech’s ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) software to integrate CalBox’s core business processes into a single system to improve data, flow, planning and decision-making. “We use Amtech’s Encore in all our plants to do everything from accounting, job costing and plant floor reporting to customer service, booking orders, shipping and logistics,” says Chris Widera. “It’s really the only software we need to do everything we want to do. We’re still looking to further automate our material flow and we’re seriously consider- ing robotic carts, like Amazon uses in their warehouses, which are the wave of the future.” Speaking Of The Future: AI Privately owned for more than four decades, John Widera has grown Cal Box Group from the “humble be- ginnings” of a very small box manufacturer into five state- of-the-art corrugated and sheet plants specializing in “On Time, With Quality” service and delivery faster than ever before. That basic philosophy is not disappearing, even in the age of AI. As Widera explained in Cal Box’s 2026 Con- verter Outlook in the January 12 issue of Board Converting News , “There’s no question AI is moving fast. The tools will get smarter, be easier to use and be more widely adapted across manufacturing and packaging.” An EAM Mosca Sonixs strapping machine ensures reliable transport of square bundles transported away from a convert- ing machine.
CORRUGATED MACHINERY SPECIALISTS www.cmsretrofits.com
Leading manufacturer and installer of quality retrofits, up- grades and replacement parts for S&S and Prime Flexo Folder Gluers. Specialists in reconditioning of S&S Flexo Folder Gluers, including ink, air and electrical systems.
CORRUGATOR BELT SERVICE LLC www.corrugator.com
Serving the corrugated box industry since 1991, Chicago- based Corrugator Belt Service LLC maintains corru- gator belts for peak board quality and performance.
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