INDUSTRY CALENDAR APRIL 21-22 AICC Seminar: Production Leadership: Next Level Super- vision, StandFast Group, Carol Stream, Illinois. APRIL 23-24 AICC Seminar: Production Measurement: Benchmarking & Buy In, StandFast Group, Carol Stream, Illinois. MAY 5 TAPPI Trade Fair & Evening Program, sponsored by AICC, Marriott Oak Brook, Oak Brook, Illinois. MAY 13 AICC Canada Spring Networking Event, Woodbine Race- track, Toronto, Canada. MAY 13-15 AICC Mexico Annual Meeting & Trade Fair, Camino Real Hotel, Monterrey, Mexico. JUNE 25 AICC Canada/CCCA 13th Annual Member Golf Tourna- ment, Nobleton Lakes Golf Club, Nobleton, Ontario AUGUST 11 TAPPI Annual Golf Outing: Ruffled Feathers Golf Course, Lemont, Illinois. SEPTEMBER 13-17 TAPPI/AICC 2020 SuperCorrExpo: Orange County Convention Center, Orlando, Florida.
Board Converting News® is published weekly by NV Business Publications, in association with Corrugated Today®, Recycling Markets®, Flexo Market News®, International Paper Board Indus- try®, and Folding Carton Industry®. Editorial and Marketing office: PO Box 802, Manasquan, NJ 08736-0802. Subscription Rates in U.S. and Canada $223 per year or $355 for two years. Overseas rate per year $355 USD. Current issue single copies (pre-paid only) $8.50 in U.S. (elsewhere $9.50); add $5.00 per order for shipping & handling. No part of this publication may be transmit- ted or reproduced without written permission from the publisher. Robyn Smith - President/Publisher: rsmith@nvpublications.com Len Prazych - Vice President Founded in 1946 in Ontario, Canada, The Ellis Group is comprised of over 250 employees at Ellis Packaging, Ellis Paper Box and Ellis Packaging West servicing and special- izing in the food, confectionary, pharmaceutical, neutra- ceutical and beverage industries. ing efficient, reliable equipment in all its operating areas is critical to the firm’s success. According to Ellis, the Optima 106 fulfills all of those requirements. Its controls provide ease of handling for the Ellis team. Her operators find the controls to be easier to understand and find all of the functions to handle the ma- chine. “Our operators love it,” she says. “Makeready times have improved due to click lock and other automation.” The Optima 106 K’s features contribute to reduced makeready times and lower operating costs. Some of El- lis’s products require very efficient setup times to be cost effective, she explains, and the slick pneumatically actuat- ed quick lock system for locking up dies helps to reduce makeready times. In turn, she says, the die cutter helps to keep costs low on short run work. Conversely, Ellis has other customers and product formats where vendor man- aged inventory is part of its value proposition, and sub- sequently, those run quantities tend to be much longer where speed and press uptime is critical. Investing in the Koenig & Bauer-Iberica die cutter was an easy decision for the team at Ellis. For more than two decades Iberica die cutters have made major contribu- tions to the growth at Ellis. Replacing an existing Iberica die cutter presented minimal learning curve to the staff. This fourth die cutter follows three new Koenig & Bau- er-Iberica Optima 106 K 40-inch diecutters, two for Ellis Paper Box and one for Ellis Packaging.
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