For about a year and a half now, CPC Solutions has embarked on a journey of transformation. We’ve always had a clean facility and have been well organized, but we realized we could do better, and needed to do better. Since then, we’ve adopted one of the lean manufacturing philosophies called 5S. The five Ss stand for:

This effort has everything to do with being a better company in order to produce a better product, and give better service. It is continuous improvement, so it will never be done, but we continue to make progress.

The Super-cool Fold Factory Video: Source - foldfactory.com

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Tips from the Trenches:

Let us build your template. Our new CAD software will take the guesswork out of your packaging design. Templates can be easily created to help maximize your creativity and the software will render your project in 3-D, to ensure spot-on crossovers and functional design.

App-licious App:

Foldify*, a brand new app, which was released today, is a great way to be inspired. It’s intended to be a fun tool to create individual three dimensional paper figures, and it can also be used to inspire countless other ideas at a commercial level. Our new packaging equipment can help you die cut, fold and glue on a mass scale for your next three dimensional project.

*There is a special launch price of $1.99

Interesting Integers: Source: Print in the Mix

Two-thirds (66%) of consumers surveyed say they examine the print catalogs they receive in the mailbox.

92% of those who examine the catalogs they receive have made a purchase.

Almost Famous Quote:

If I’m in style, it’s by coincidence. –Richard C. Garigen

Every so often we feature a member from our team because we feel it is important for you to know who is doing the real work.  This week we feature Carolyn Johnson, Project Manager:

Every so often we feature a member from our team because we feel it is important for you to know who is doing the real work.  This week we feature Dan Savoca, Project Manager:

Every so often we feature a member from our team because we feel it is important for you to know who is doing the real work.  This week we feature Amy Tezak, Project Manager:

Every so often we feature a member from our team because we feel it is important for you to know who is doing the real work.  While Mike is not quite as old as lead, he was certainly using it at the start of his career, so the image above has fond memories. 

In the days of yore, individual letters were assembled in reverse order into words and lines of text with the aid of a composing stick, and the whole assembly was then tightly bound together to make up a page.  Mike entered the profession during the transition to linotype, which was still lead, but processed in a different way.  Allow us to introduce Michael Amos, Plant Manager.

Nickname and battle cry: Super A - Faster than a sheet of paper; more powerful than a Heidelberg press; able to leap over a skid of paper; fighting for the right to put it on the press tonight! 

Year started at CPC Solutions: April 2^nd, 1975, for a nickel more an hour and thought life could not get better.   

First job:  His first printing job was in 1972 where he learned to be a Chief 15 press operator for the Delta Newspaper, back when running black ink was really cool. 

Current position:  Handles all matters of production and makes it happen every single day. 

What Mike likes most about what he does:   The fact that printing is constantly changing, which gives him the opportunity to always learn something new.

Favorite hobbies: Fishing, when he makes the time, and glasses of red wine.

Thanks Mike for your expertise and many years of service!