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Article: Automating vendor managed inventory in the ultracompetitive papermaking industry.
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- Manufacturing Business Technology
- Article date:
- April 1, 2008
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By Malcolm Wheatley, senior contributing editor
Korsnas AB makes the specialty board and papers used in packaging liquid and food products.
Papermaking at the moment is an intensely competitive industry. In fact, Korsnas says competition within its carton board segment is higher as a result of imports from low-cost countries like Brazil and Chile, the weakened state of the U.S. dollar, and increased production capacity inside and outside Europe.
Moreover, rising costs for both pulpwood and energy will continue to have an impact that won't be offset by price increases.
John Leppiaho, a product manager with automation vendor GE Fanuc ...