Up to the Challenge

Maintaining consistent quality of paper is also a challenge. “Mills are producing [lower] quality board, and as a result we find ourselves doing more quality control and our internal rejections have increased.” These factors affect Vista Color’s bottom line, and the only way to avoid the problem, says Roque, is to find a mill that can work with you when you have paper issues. “If they solve those problems fast,” says Roque, “they are a keeper.”