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Article: Folder/gluer yields Texas-sized benefits. (Package Manufacturing: Carton Folding/Gluing).(Caraustar uses new equipment at Chicago facility)
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- Packaging Digest
- Article date:
- September 1, 2002
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Caraustar's Chicago carton converting plant uses a new vacuum-controlled folder/gluer to finish cartons for Marzetti's New York Brand Texas Toast. operating at exceptional' speeds, the equipment also slices through downtime and waste.
In October, '00, when Chicago-based Crane Carton Co. LLC was acquired by Caraustar Industries, Inc., the transition was nearly seamless. Says founder and former CEO of Crane, Alan Crane, now president of Caraustar Chicago Carton, "If we hadn't told our employees that we had sold the company, they wouldn't even have known."
The same philosophy and values that propelled Crane Carton to $41 million in revenues in '99 continue ...