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Growth Spurt By 2006, with John and Sue Gohlke on the “tail end of their careers” and a waning desire for 60-hour work weeks, the third-generation made the leap from a crowd- ed 17,000-square-foot footprint to a 50,000-square-foot facility in Richfield, Wisconsin, bringing with them the only two major pieces of equipment that fit in the smaller facili- ty: a Serenco 2-color 50-inch by 110-inch flexo folder gluer, and a 22-year-old first-generation Baysek C-170 diecutter.
With the additional room, Young added a used Ward 66-inch by 113-inch rotary diecutter, which immediately opened the doors for more business. “That was planned growth, but it kept escalating and we started getting tight pretty quickly,” says Young. “But we were still miss- ing something. We had the 50-inch machine but needed something smaller, so we found a used Isowa 38-inch 2-color flexo folder gluer, which filled a niche we weren’t previously able to fill. Once we did that, it rounded us out. Our two flexos made a large variety of boxes and along A Serenco flexo folder gluer was one of two pieces of equip- ment that was moved to Arrow’s Richfield facility in 2006.
with our two diecutters, a rotary and a flat bed, we had the tools to sell even more to our existing customers, while developing new ones in different industries.” Arrow Carton added a 66-inch by 110-inch Haire Group Apstar 2-color flexo folder gluer two years ago, adding Arrow Carton added a Haire Group Apstar 2-color flexo folder gluer two years ago.
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