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Understanding The Key Characteristics of Linerboard and Medium and Their Impact on Combined Corrugated Board
Converters need to have a greater knowledge about every aspect of their operations, especially obtaining the highest quality linerboard and corrugating medium for the purchasing dollar. Material selection is critical in meeting customer needs, especially in the area of demonstrating sustainability and creativity in packaging design and engineering.
This brochure is intended to provide corrugators, sheet feeders, sheet plants and their suppliers with selection criteria to evaluate various containerboard grades. With the template provided you can evaluate your purchasing options for your corrugator operations and which grades are the best in class and value.
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 New - Understanding Box Performance
AICC offers a new brochure, Understanding Box Performance, a joint publication of AICC and FBA. We have jointly developed this brochure to be a simple, non-technical document to assist sales managers, sales representatives, customer service representatives and others in understanding the relationships between box compression strength, corrugated board edge crush test (ECT) and burst strength (Mullen) so the box maker and customer can determine the optimum solution to the customer’s needs.
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 2011 Sales Compensation Survey (Produced Bi-annually)
Based on a comprehensive survey of U.S. and Canadian members, the survey details sales compensation programs in place at independent plants around the country. The report covers types of programs, payment basis, and the perquisites provided for a range of industry sales representatives.
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 Journal on Corrugated Graphic Design
A new series of technical articles written by corrugated design professionals... Our newest publication is a valuable tool for all levels of corrugated graphic designers. New designers will benefit from Graphics, Color, and Machine Fundamentals, while the experienced professional will find answers to printing problems and ways to imporve their current plant procedures.
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 Salary, Hourly Wage & Benefit Survey (Produced Bi-annually)
The salary and benefit survey of AICC's box plant members represents the only comprehensive report of the key employee salaries and benefits being paid by independent corrugated converters in the U.S. and Canada. Broken down by region and plant type, it includes hourly wage rates for selected positions as well as percentages paid by employees for health care and other benefits.
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 Job Descriptions for the Corrugated Industry
Over 60 model job descriptions for production, administrative, and management positions at both corrugator and sheet plant operations. Descriptions include basic skill requirements, duties and responsibilities, and reporting and supervisory relationships. Provided in both hard copy and electronically.
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 New - Understanding the performance requirements of your customer's packaging, Second Edition
AICC offers the Second Edition of Understanding Your Customer's Performance Requirements, a joint publication of AICC and FBA. We have jointly developed this brochure to be a simple, non-technical document to assist sales managers, sales representatives, customer service representatives and others in understanding the relationships between box compression strength, corrugated board edge crush test (ECT) and burst strength (Mullen) so the box maker and customer can determine the optimum solution to the customer's needs.
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 Anti-Trust Compliance Manual
AICC General Counsel Paul Visny's comprehensive policy guidelines for adhering to the nation's antitrust laws, covering price fixing, price discrimination, and dealing with distributions as well as tie-ins, termination and licenses.
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 Human Resource Management Guide for the Corrugated Industry
comprehensive guide offering HR policies and procedures for the independent box maker and suppliers to the corrugated industry. Model policies are presented in clear and easy to understand terms that can be incorporated into any company’s employee handbook. Over 35 policies are covered including: Anti-Harassment, Equal Employment Opportunity, Electronic Media/Internet, Employee Classifications, Personnel Records, Privacy, Recruitment, Employment of Non-U.S. Citizens, Americans With Disabilities Act, Leave, Pay Procedures, and Salary Administration. Provided in both hard copy and electronically.
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 Coming Soon - Equipment Justification Guide
Making the correct and best selection of new or used capital equipment begins with a well-informed understanding of your company’s needs and the technology available to meet those needs. This guide provides you with a formula to assess both need and value when considering the purchase of capital equipment as well as a checklist that you can use to evaluate and compare different options. A list of critical questions is also included --- the questions we most often forget to ask before the equipment arrives.
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 Understanding Hazardous Materials Requirements for Box Plants
The shipments of hazardous materials via common carrier, ship and especially air continue to grow. To manufacture boxes for hazardous materials you have to follow certain marking, training, hazard communication, and quality control requirements. This booklet wil tell you how.
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 How to Prevent Lean Implementations Failures: 10 Reasons Why Failures Occur - Larry Rubrich
The First book in the "Making Companies Globally Competitive Series" this book examines in detail the reasons that so many companies experience less than desirable results in their productivity initiative. This book provides the foundation for presenting a very practical guide to avoiding the pitfalls and roadblacks that occur in every Lean Implementation. The book provides a list of ten mistakes that companies make, as well as how to avoid these mistakes in order to ensure a successful Lean Implementation.
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 The Lean Enterprise
A primer on the principles and concepts involved in understanding and developing The Lean Enterprise. Lean is defined and an overview of the tools required to transform to the Lean way of thinking are covered.
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