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50,000-square-foot roof, half of which is allocated to man- ufacturing, the other to raw materials and finished goods. The company has 35 employees and runs one shift, albeit a “very extended” shift. “We’re working 12-hour days Mon- day through Friday and eight hours on Saturday, at least for the foreseeable future,” says Young. “Our challenge, as it is for the rest of the industry, is finding enough employ- ees to work a second shift.” There is inherent risk in relying on a single machine to produce such a significant amount of a company’s prod- uct. What happens when “something happens” and the machine needs servicing or repairs? “We can’t put the work on another piece of our equip- ment, it has to run on the Baysek,” says Young. “If some- things happens with our diecutter, Baysek is here imme- diately. It helps that they are nearby (Arrow Carton and Baysek Machines are about 120 miles apart), but it’s im- portant that we have service like this on a machine that is so niche-oriented and so critical to what we do. It’s the ser- vice Dave Helbach and Baysek have provided for the last 25 years and it has only evolved to become even more attentive. “Baysek Machines is the service-oriented company we emulate. They take care of their customers and so do we. It’s what’s allowed us to plan our future direction and continue to grow the way we have. Our flexos are always busy, but the machine that is always running is our Baysek diecutter. Always has, always will be.”
unit – made it ideal for food contact boxes. Being able to offer this service has been explosive for us. It’s gotten us into many different industries and has allowed us to keep growing.”
Young says Arrow Carton’s Baysek C-170 diecutter has become the company’s workhorse. Once producing 500 or 1,000 pieces per job, its quantities of “short-runs” have increased to 5,000, 20,000 and even 40,000 pieces. The C-170 is the busiest piece of equipment under Arrow’s A Signode strapper/bundler moves quantities from 500 to 40,000 toward the door for delivery to customers in Wisconsin.
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