A.G. Stacker Celebrates 25 Years Of Corrugated Industry Innovation
The year 2021 marks the 25th anniversary for Weyers Cave, Virginia based A.G. Stacker, a custom manufacturer and innovator of corrugated material handling equipment. Founded in 1996 by Clarence and Helen Allen, A.G. Stacker was created with a commitment to innovation that remains alive to this day.
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A History of Innovation | 1996 – 2021 A.G. Stacker began as a full-service rigging company for custom plant moves, installations and redesigns. After years in the corrugated industry, the Allens gravitated towards innovation in rotary die cutter stackers and were inspired to pursue new, patent-seeking designs to improve the pro- ductivity, safety and longevity of this sector. With the first piece of original A.G. equipment released in 2000, the founders began selling and retrofit- ting stackers with A.G. equipment and upgrades. In 2007, the XRI Stacker came to market and has served as a proven stacker design that A.G. con- tinues to build on to this day. In 2008, A.G. received its first, of now 21, patents and currently has multiple patents pending with the USPTO. As the spirit of innovation con- tinued to increase throughout the years, so did A.G.’s product offerings, with the addition of the X12 Pitless Lift Conveyor and the Bundle Conveyor System in 2012. In 2016, the G3 Stacker entered the market, building on the X12 platform and adding divert and separate, sample quality rejection and servo-driven tamper patented technologies to A.G.’s equipment lines. With the appointment of Joe Wunder as President in 2017, A.G. shifted their innovation internally and put an emphasis on people, processes, and technology. This sparked a full digital transformation whereby all A.G.’s operations, engineering, service and production are connected and avail- able, any time and any where. By 2020, A.G. had developed multiple digital technologies, including augmented reality service options, a mobile application, a virtual reality factory environment, digital twin technologies and other internal process- es. This set the stage for the new eSERIES equipment line - A.G.’s fully electric, fully integrated systems including the eBREAK Bundle Breaker and eZF Load Former, which was unveiled first at SuperCorrExpo in 2021. At the event, A.G. celebrated their 25th anniversary with partners and A.G. Stacker co-founders, Helen and Clarence Allen, at the A.G. manufacturing facility in Weyers Cave, Virginia.
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