Flexible packaging provider Exopack Holding Corp., the latest news is in the SKUs. This paper and plastic packaging converter, headquartered in Spartanburg, S.C., boasts 19 production facilities across North America and the United Kingdom, and supplies approximately 25,000 SKUs to 1,300 diverse customers.
Lean Manufacturing has been an important topic for the package-printing industry (and all U.S. manufacturing, for that matter) for many years now. Printers have most likely engaged in Lean Manufacturing processes without even knowing it. Why? Because Lean is all about reducing/eliminating waste and improving productivity. Any business that hasn’t been seriously engaged in these activities is probably having a difficult time in today’s competitive landscape.
SOUTH HADLEY, Mass.—InteliCoat Technologies®, a manufacturer of coated paper, film, and specialty substrates for digital imaging applications, announced that it has been awarded $381,350 by the State of Massachusetts to help fund the company’s enterprise-wide LEAN implementation. Launched in October 2007 and gaining momentum through the course of 2008, the goal of the LEAN Program is to eliminate waste company-wide in every process within the customer value chain. To date, the program has played a critical role in accelerating time-to-market for new products, increasing customer service levels, and strengthening InteliCoat’s global position in providing world-class digital imaging products to the wide-format market. The
MATTHEWS, N.C.—A decade-long program to develop specially coated conductive foil current collectors and use them in new all-solid lithium polymeric metal (LPM) battery for electric cars is paying off for Exopack Advanced Coatings™. The company has been awarded the business to supply critical current collectors for batteries designed to power a 100-percent electric car now under development by a European partnership. The joint venture—involving Bollore Group, a diversified French company and Pininfarina, an Italian niche automaker—plans to produce and deliver 20,000 of the emissions-free vehicles to buyers in Europe, Japan and the U.S. by 2012. Chuck Quinby, global business development manager at Exopack Advanced
SOUTH HADLEY, Mass. and SPARTANBURG, S.C.—InteliCoat Technologies—a global leader in the manufacture of coated paper, film, and specialty substrates for imaging, medical, optical and electronic technologies—has sold its Electronic and Engineered Films (EEF) business unit to Exopack Holding, a leading North American flexible packaging converter and provider of paper and plastic packaging solutions for the food, industrial, and medical industries. Both InteliCoat and Exopack are affiliates of Sun Capital Partners, a leading private investment firm specializing in leveraged buyouts and investments in market-leading companies. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. Joe Lupone, president and CEO of InteliCoat, stated, “The sale of our Electronic
