David Culver’s credo is “You are only as good as your satisfied customers.” The president of Parlor City Paper Box in Binghamton NY, Culver – who began with the company in 1957, took ownership of the packaging printer in the early 1980s, and was joined by his sons Bruce, Brian and Jeffrey in the 1990s […]
In 1990, Progressive Converting was established to fill a need for quick turn around, high quality sheeting in the Wisconsin market. Armed with a business plan and a Maxson sheeter, Progressive Converting began offering its services to the paper industry as a contract converter. Success soon followed and within a year, a second Maxson sheeter […]
Today’s highly competitive folding carton climate makes servicing customers a top priority. Ling Industries, Warwick Quebec, has made this priority a part of its business credo. In the early 1950s, Ling Industries was a commercial printer servicing the local market. It was in the 1960s that paper board boxes were integrated into the production process. […]
Today’s highly competitive business climate makes it necessary for companies to keep quality levels a top priority. Since it was founded 50 years ago, Henley Paper Company, a former High Point, NC based printing paper and industrial packaging and equipment distributor now headquartered in Greensboro NC has put this priority at the heart of their […]
For Williams Paper, a St. Louis trade converter, the addition of a Maxson Model DFK 350 high-speed, dual rotary knife sheeter is part of a plan to fill the need for quality, precision sheeting within its geographical area. The family-owned business has secured a niche for itself by going the extra mile to provide small […]
It sounds cliché, but ‘Let us find a way to get your job done,’ is not just a Mission Statement gathering dust on a wall in the customer service department. It is truly the credo by which each RIS Paper employee lives. And a Maxson DFK Sheeter is making it a reality. The MAXSON DFK […]
Atlantic Packaging Corporation, like other growing and successful companies, has blazed a winding path to its present incarnation as a trade merchant of converted materials to the packaging industry. Getting here speaks volumes of management with a vision of the future and the will to respond quickly to market change and growth opportunity. Privately owned […]
In older stationary bed knife (or ‘dead knife’) cutter designs a single motor drives the pull roll section and powers a second drive train to change the speed of the revolver relative to the speed of the draw drum. Typically mechanical designs such as expansion pulleys, change gears or gear boxes were used within the […]
A good first step – where possible – is to have your scheduling department arrange sheeter orders so you don’t have to reposition or introduce additional slitters each time for each production run. Most set up time associated with slitting is positioning the bottom rings. Here are some time saving tips: If there are popular […]
The short answer is yes – by changing the pulley ratio between the cutter motor and the main drive shaft. But there are several implications to making this change. Make sure that the rotating cylinders, particularly the draw drum and knife revolver, are dynamically balanced. Operating unbalanced components at higher speed will prematurely wear out […]
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