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stone in January this year when the plant broke all
stop Heribert and Franz-Hubert Gierlichs from
previous production records. In fact, within only two
monitoring the family-owned corrugated plant opweeks of installing the Kiwiplan
erations in Germany
solution, the company was
while in the African
achieving three centimetre gains
jungle. Thanks to
in board width utilisation on the
Kiwiplan software, a mocorrugator.
bile telephone and a
Wellpappenwerk Franz
laptop, the two profesGierlichs is also on schedule to
sional hunters are able to
be the first corrugated plant in
dial-up directly (where a
Europe to install Kiwiplan’s exnetwork is available) to
citing new sales order processthe Leverkusen-based
ing product - Enterprise Sales
factory of
Processing (ESP). In addition,
Wellpappenwerk Franz
there are plans to interface the
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to check output and opInserta.
erating efficiencies.
Gierlichs comments: “MarApart from having
gins in the corrugated industry
achieved several hunting
are low and mistakes can be
records, the Gierlichs
costly. Our company, however,
brothers also established
has remained competitive and
a new record recently
profitable by specialising and inwhen Kiwiplan’s MAP
vesting in well trained people
production system was
and state-of-the-art systems and
installed in the
equipment. Our company has
company’s corrugated
been established 99 years and
plant in only 82 manmanufacturing corrugated board
days. This intensive
products for some 70 years.
project was only made
From their “remote office” in the African veldt,
Kiwiplan is an important part of
possible by the two comFranz-Hubert Gierlichs (left) and Heribert Gierlichs
(right) check on the output and efficiencies of their
our corporate strategy, which is
panies working closely
plant in Germany.
aimed at maintaining strong ontogether and combining
going growth and success for
the expertise and commitment of each
Wellpappenwerk Franz Gierlichs in the future.”
organisation’s skilled personnel.
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Riyadh Cartons Boosts Efficiency
with Kiwiplan .................................. page 2
Genting Sanyen Looks Ahead to
Meet Future Demands .................. page 3
Gierlichs in German on page 7
Kiwiplan Asia Grows ................... page 3
Georgia-Pacific Buena Park
Converts Pain into Gain .............. page 6
Tradeshow Update ........................ page 8
Kiwiplan International Web Site
Launched .......................................... page 8
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MAJOR SAUDI CORRUGATED PACKAGING MANUFACTURER BOOSTS EFFICIENCY
WITH KIWIPLAN APPLICATIONS SOFTWARE
RIYADH CARTONS IS HIGHLY DELIGHTED WITH RESULTS OF KIWIPLAN’S TOTAL SOLUTIONS
APPROACH
A major manufacturer of corrugated packaging based in Riyadh in the Kingdom of
Saudi Arabia is finding that its production and stock holding efficiencies are greatly
enhanced with installation of a suite of software modules specially designed for use
in corrugated conversion plants.
Available exclusively from
Kiwiplan, the “total solutions”
application software is being
used by converters Riyadh Cartons. The company is delighted
with results to date which indicate significant upgrading of efficiency in production planning
and scheduling, inventory management, line monitoring and
product routing. Payback indications are also very good indeed.
Kiwiplan Europe can draw
upon many years experience of
the converting industry in the
Peter Thompson, Software Consultant, Kiwiplan Europe is
Middle East. This has enabled it facilitating the training course for Riyadh Cartons. Left to
right: Mankaji, Planner; Shaya Ali, Production Engineer;
to tackle one of the traditional
and Sir Al-Khatim, Supervisor.
problems in this area of the
world. A local three-month lead-time for raw paper normally necessitates very large
holdings of roll stock to cushion the effect of fluctuating demand for corrugated
boxes.
With the implementation of the
Roll Stock Module, Riyadh Cartons is able to identify each roll in
stock with the actual cost. This
has led to an improvement in inventory management. An instantly available overview of the
stock position by trim widths and
paper grades provides a tremendous advantage in material usage.
The module has also solved a major problem with the management
of butt rolls. As a result, the number of butt rolls in stock has been
reduced. In addition, the easy
identification of butt rolls enables
them to be issued first in the pro(left to right): K. Chiranjeevi Sastry, Quality Assurance,
duction program.
Manager for Kiwiplan project; Ali Suleiman Al-Rajhi,
General Manager; Peter Thompson, Software Consultant,
The Kiwiplan software also enKiwiplan Europe; and Russell Ian Duarte, Plant Manager
ables Riyadh Cartons to select the
and Technical Advisor.
most cost-effective material and
board grades at the job planning stage. More efficient production of boards aids accurate scheduling while considering the delivery targets. This area is showing a
steady reduction of work in progress.
Other modules in the suite help reduce manual work and the chance of operator
errors as well as accurately monitoring line efficiency and reducing the tedious job of
reporting.
A key feature of Kiwiplan’s service is an efficient in-depth training program for all
the customer’s factory personnel. This is followed up as a matter of course by
regular after-sales support.
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MALAYSIA’S NEWEST, LARGEST, AND BEST, GENTING SANYEN INDUSTRIAL PAPER SDN. BHD. LOOKS AHEAD TO MEET
CUSTOMERS’ FUTURE DEMANDS
KIWIPLAN’S INDUSTRY EXPERTISE AND CONNECTIVITY CAPABILITIES HELP
MAKE FULLY AUTOMATED OPERATION POSSIBLE.
Forward-thinking companies are never
satisfied with doing the minimum required to compete in today’s market.
They’re committed to investing in whatever it takes to exceed customer expectations well into the future. In this
arena, Genting Sanyen ranks among the
best. With the opening of its two
greenfield box plants in Malaysia, one in
the Genting Sanyen Industrial Paper Mill
Complex (Genting Sanyen Mill Complex)
at Kuala Langat, Selangor, and the other
in Penang, Genting Sanyen’s facilities are
two of the most highly automated and innovative in the region, if not the world.
INVEST IN THE BEST TO BE THE BEST
Chew Weng Hong, Manager, Corporate Planning at Genting Sanyen,
comments, “We’ve invested in the best
technology to achieve the highest possible level of automation for three reasons: to provide customers the highest
quality boxes at competitive prices, to offer them the flexibility they are used to,
and quite frankly, to be the market leader
in the paper and packaging industry in
Malaysia.”
Partnering with the best Information
Technology and equipment vendors and
suppliers available has propelled them
toward achieving those goals. Chew
adds, “We are striving to be the mover in
the industry as far as adopting new technology and innovative ideas. True to
form, when selecting our software vendor, we decided to go with the leader in
the market. We wanted a tried, tested,
and proven global product. So Kiwiplan
was our obvious vendor of choice.”
INTERFACES AND CONNECTIVITY CRITICAL FOR FULLY
AUTOMATED OPERATION
To give them the flexibility and automation they require, Kiwiplan worked
with other vendors, such as MHI, Martin,
and SAP, to provide the complex bi-directional interfaces necessary for
Genting Sanyen to be a fully automated
operation. Chew comments, “To make
everything ‘talk to each other’, our vendor partners broke new ground. Through
a great deal of cooperation and determination, they came up with solutions that
have enabled us to get to where we are
today. In particular, new systems were
developed and implemented
in the areas of automated
materials handling and automatic roll handling.”
A proven player in the
area of connectivity,
Kiwiplan has now supplied
over 1,300 installed and opGenting Sanyen Box Plant at Kuala Langat, Selangor.
erational connections to
manufacturing machinery, including
own power plant and water treatment
corrugators, finishing equipment, conplants. These give them a definite comveyor systems and strappers as well as
petitive advantage by allowing them to
other equipment. Critical for any plant
translate efficiencies and advanced maautomation project, these types of conchine and information technology into
nections can help plants automate the
world class products for their customsetup and data management of flexos
ers. Kiwiplan is honored to be part of
and diecutters and other equipment,
this market-leading operation.
thus allowing them to achieve significant productivity gains and ROI.
Fully-automated interfaces at Genting
Sanyen involving Kiwiplan include:
• Martin MPC2 converting machine interfaces—one to a Martin 924 flexofolder-gluer; a second to the Martin 66
flexo-folder-gluer with die cutting, stapling and gluing capabilities; and a
third to a DRO 1628 diecutter
• Corrugator dry end links to MHI
Sigma
KIWIPLAN ASIA GROWS
• Corrugator roll stand link (MHI) to
Kiwiplan’s Roll Stock System (RSS)
As part of Kiwiplan’s commitment
• Corrugator stacker discharge links to
to Genting and the Asian market,
auto print load tags
Kiwiplan Asia has recently relocated
• Kiwiplan full plant scheduling system
and expanded its office and staff to
(PCS) link to Martin Easystore conveymeet the growing customer base in
ors
the region. Conveniently located
• Kiwiplan’s real-time shop floor data
on the outskirts of Kuala Lumpur
collection system MDC (Machine
and on the route of the Light Rail
Data Collection)
public transportation system, the
• Radio Frequency (RF) systems to
new office is about six kilometers
manage paper rolls
from the famous twin towers.
• Complete integrated connectivity to
Beyond selling software, Kiwiplan
SAP
allocates resources to its various international offices as needed to
SELF-SUFFICIENCY, TECHNOLOGY PROVIDE
work with customers around the
COMPETITIVE EDGE
world to maximize the use of the
Genting Sanyen is one of the most
products and to advance customer's
self-sufficient production facilities in Masuccess in the highly competitive
laysia. Having their paper mill located
global market. This capability beclose to the central box plant in the
came a critical component of the
Genting Sanyen Mill Complex enables
success of an installation of the
them to reduce transportation costs and
scale and scope of the Genting
inventory, and increase reliability of the
project.
paper supply to the box plant. Essential
electricity, steam and water supply to
the complex is made available by their
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KIWIWEB—IT’S ALL ABOUT ENHANCING CUSTOMER
As a web-based system, KiwiWeb allows you to share data with customers so that they and you can
make better decisions. Moving beyond just the four P’s of marketing (product, place, price, and
promotion), KiwiWeb will place your company among those key influencers who include such variables
as service quality, recognition, brand relevance, and customer support—factors by which it may actually
be easier for you to achieve a competitive differentiation. KiwiWeb is a powerful tool Kiwiplan
provides to help you build your business and secure long-lasting, mutually beneficial relationships with
your customers.
CUSTOMERS CAN PLACE ORDERS ACCURATELY,
QUICKLY, AND SEAMLESSLY—24/7
The KiwiWeb portal is linked to your web
site. Using a secure log-in and password,
your customers can enter a secure area on
KiwiWeb and can directly enter new
orders or order by replenishment
specifications.
POWERFUL SALES TOOL—
You can control which board
types to make available on the
List of Boards. When placing
orders, customers see this list of
board types offered and, as a
result, they may become aware
of products they didn’t even
know you could provide.
EFFICIENT, ACCURATE PROCESSING OF ORDERS
When submitting orders, customers can batch
them (place them in a shopping cart). Orders
can be changed or deleted as desired and then
submitted to Kiwiplan’s fully integrated Sales
Order Management System—ESP.
RELATIONSHIPS AND MAKING BUSINESS EASIER!
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AUTOMATIC, ELECTRONIC ORDER CONFIRMATION
Once orders are entered and accepted,
customers are sent an electronic message
confirming that the order is in the system.
If customers want to view the order status,
they can bring up all of their orders in the
system.
EASY ACCESS TO INFORMATION/ORDER STATUS
Throughout the manufacturing process, by way of the
web site, customers can view work-in-progress status
to see where the order is in the plant. Plants can
determine the extent of the information available to
customers so that customers can view only the data
that is pertinent to them.
CUSTOMIZED VIEWING OF ORDER STATUS AND DETAILS
Using the customizable filtering criteria on
the right of the screen, customers can view
order details on scrollable screens by:
• Delivery date
• Purchase orders
• Date order
• Status: on hold, work-in-progress, and parts
shipped
TIMELY INFORMATION ON SHIPPING STATUS—
THE 360° VIEW
Customers can view dockets to see delivery
details to find out on which truck the order is
being shipped. They can then enter the
docket numbers to see which orders are on
the truck. Delivery details can be sorted by
docket number, dispatch dates, or other
criteria.
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GEORGIA-PACIFIC BUENA PARK CONVERTS PAIN INTO GAIN—WITH KIWIPLAN’S HELP
“Increase throughput!” “Improve ontime deliveries!” “Communicate—make
sure the left hand knows what the right
hand is doing!” Sound familiar? Such
are the monumental mandates corrugating plants face daily in order to succeed
in the highly competitive marketplace.
In January 2001 Georgia-Pacific (G-P)
Buena Park, California faced these challenges head-on and turned to Kiwiplan
consultants to lend a hand. Together,
they embarked on a yearlong Kiwiplan
Value-Creation Activity (V-CA)
consultancy project that has significantly changed their culture and improved the way they do business. Looking back, Bob Walton, General
Manager of G-P Buena Park, wonders
how they ever got along without V-CA:
“Over the past year we’ve become very
dependent on the V-CA process as a tool
and realize how difficult it would be not
to use it, especially for throughput purposes.”
WHAT IS V-CA?
Dirk Pastoor, Kiwiplan’s Sales
Manager explains, “Customers readily
see the power of Kiwiplan’s products
and their ability to make a big positive
difference to the bottom line. To realize
the benefits, however, changes often
need to be made in business process, attitude, and plant culture, and this process sometimes needs a helping hand.
We facilitate the change process by
helping to set goals, chart a course of action, and set about to maximize the use
of all of the plant’s current assets, not
just our software and systems.”
Different from the standard consulting
routine, V-CA is a step-by-step approach
to help corrugating and packaging
plants optimize every aspect of their organizations, including use of their software as well as plant procedures and
practices. The V-CA process is “handson” working with plant personnel—
from senior management to the crews—
establishing a course of action to best
address the specific needs of the plant.
All aspects of the plant’s operations are
reviewed—from top to bottom—and
the greatest opportunities for improvement are identified. Once improvement
opportunities are recognized, an implementation and action strategy is put into
place. Resultant improvements are then
charted and presented to the management team.
Wayne Stocks, Kiwiplan’s Manager
of Consulting Services, clarifies
Kiwiplan’s experience: “Kiwiplan is
uniquely qualified to offer these services
on three counts. First, many of our consultants have decades of experience in
the corrugating industry. Some have
spent their entire working lives passionately attached to box making and finding
ways to improve the process. We are
dedicated industry professionals, not just
outsiders who wouldn’t know a flute
from a flexo. Second, nearly 50% of all integrated corrugating plants in the US
(and over 400 worldwide) have committed to Kiwiplan software. This exposure
and experience delivers a wealth of
knowledge and ideas, which are
uniquely available to Kiwiplan users.
Third, our products are incredibly powerful. We can make a huge difference to
the success and performance of a plant. I
get a real high out of sharing our knowledge and seeing customers benefit as a
result.”
PROBLEM SOLVING TOOL—THAT WORKS!
Walton explains that one of the most
significant gains attributed to V-CA involved communication: “V-CA puts everybody on a level playing field. Traditionally, when orders were overbooked
or production was slow, finger pointing
took place. Sales blamed manufacturing
for slow production and manufacturing
blamed sales for overbooking. Now everyone has a clear picture of what’s taking place. We know what’s booked on
which machines, which customers need
a rush order, what’s coming off each machine, and any machine downtimes and
their causes. The communication is unbelievable; the finger pointing has been
transformed into problem solving.”
He further explains that V-CA organizes everything and lays it out in a very
matter-of-fact way so that everybody
knows where the issues are: “People understand they have a job to do, so they
do it. When machines are overloaded,
everyone from the supervisor on down
knows what they need to do to accomplish their goals. It’s now a pinpointed
process for us to run the plant.”
For example, once they determined
where the parameters should be, accomplishing fewer wet end changes and
longer runs on the corrugator became
fairly routine and automated. V-CA
helped run the plant efficiently even
when light on business. “Running a
plant of this size and magnitude is difficult when business is slow, and V-CA
absolutely assisted us,” remarks Walton.
“We expected V-CA to benefit us when
we were busy. The fact that it has
helped us when we were slow is a secondary benefit and a pleasant surprise.”
Their ability to run “what if” scenarios
has proven to be a tremendous management tool, according to Walton. With
accuracy they can consider situations
such as “‘What if’ we ran on Saturday,
how would that help us?” or “‘What if’
we eliminate a shift on a particular machine?”
INCREASED THROUGHPUT WITHOUT THE PAIN
The biggest breakthrough with V-CA,
or the ‘shining star’ as Walton describes
it, occurred near the end of 2001. He
says, “As a major supplier to the California agricultural industry, we made it
through a significant backlog in November and December that would normally
have had us up against the wall. People
who have been here 10-14 years told
me that they have never seen us get
through that kind of situation as easily
and without confusion as we did during
those months. By far, that was the best
we have been able to do that.”
With V-CA the types of issues and
questions they deal with have become
more focused. “We are better able to
respond to what’s specifically happening in the plant and in the market as far
as sales go,” Walton explains. “For example, if a sales manager indicates that
we’re going to be producing 200,000
extra cartons this week because lettuce
is ‘hot’ right now, everyone starts thinking about what they need to do—such
as, run more orders on a particular machine, order more paper, or schedule
more trucks. The Kiwiplan system’s
graphs show us what we need to do,
and we can schedule our normal business to accommodate it. We can visibly
see what’s happening.”
INCREASED TRUST, EXPANDED DECISION-MAKING
V-CA has had a significant impact on
Walton’s job as General Manager. He
explains, “As a result of applying V-CA
principles, I can now allow and trust individuals to make high level decisions.
For example, customer service reps can
now provide information to customers
that previously could only be guaranteed by me as the GM. In addition,
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sales people can completely rely on the
information the customer service reps
provide them about the ability to accommodate particular orders. It has relieved me of the day-to-day involvement
and has given me the opportunity to
look at what needs to happen three,
four, or five days out. The opportunity
to focus on the bigger picture has been
tremendously advantageous to my job.”
ery production meeting every day and
together we learned what V-CA was
all about. Eventually, as other people
caught the vision, our knowledge
base grew along with the intensity of
the group—production, sales, and
customer service—as they realized
the potential of V-CA. Once that happened, they took it over and have
driven it to a level that I never even
dreamed was possible.”
Walton adds, “We’re far from where
we want to be with V-CA, but we’re
so much farther ahead than we were
a year ago. We’re just beginning to
see how this can help us and assist us
in running our business. And we’re
excited to find out what else we can
make of it.”
CUSTOMERS NOTICED, TOO!
Customers have noticed the improvements. Walton explains, “In place of
the typical complaints, customers have
given us rave reviews about how we’ve
performed this year. Some of our biggest customers have commented about
how reliable we’ve been. Seldom do
we turn orders down. Instead, we bring
them in and figure out how we’re going COMMITMENT, PERSISTENCE PAY OFF
Walton recommends that others
to make them work. Customers appreciate our responsiveness, and V-CA gave who are considering a V-CA project
only proceed if they’re 100% commitus the techniques to achieve it.”
ted that it’s going to work and that
SUCCESS BEYOND EXPECTATIONS
they have the right group to do it. A
Motivating individuals to change and
key to success is having the support
trusting the system were the biggest
and focus in the plant to make it
challenges they faced while implementwork. He concludes, “V-CA will bring
ing V-CA. Walton comments, “We had
about a culture change that is very
to believe we were good enough to
positive, but it’s not without pain.
make it happen. The key to success
Throughout the process you have to
was persistence. Early on, I went to evstick to it. You can’t waiver.”
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KIWIPLAN NEW EMPLOYEES
KIWIPLAN ASIA
Cong Chee Kiong
System Support Engineer
KIWIPLAN NZ
Andrew Rocco
Analyst Programmer
Ravi Chandler
System Support
Engineer
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Analyst Programmer
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Gierlichs—continued from page 1
Die gemeinsame Leidenschaft für die
Großwildjagd hält Heribert und FranzHubert Gierlichs auch im afrikanischen
Dschungel nicht davon ab die
Produktion des Familienunternehmens
in Deutschland zu überwachen. Dank
der Kiwiplan Software, einem Handy
und einem Laptop, sind die beiden
Profijäger in der Lage, das Werk
(Wellpappenwerk Franz Gierlichs
GmbH & Co. KG) in Leverkusen direkt
anzuwählen (sofern ein TelefonNetzwerk zur Verfügung steht), um die
Produktion sowie Produktivität, selbst
aus weiter Ferne, des Betriebs zu
überprüfen.
Außer mehreren Rekorden bei der
Großwildjagd stellten die Gebrüder
Gierlich vor kurzem einen neuen
Rekord auf, als das Kiwiplan
Produktionssysteme in nur 82 MannTagen in Ihrem Wellpappenwerk
installiert wurde. Dieses intensive
Projekt war nur durch enge
Zusammenarbeit der beiden
Unternehmen und durch eine
Kombination des Fachwissens und
Engagements eines spezialisierten
Mitbeiterstamms beider Firmen möglich.
Die Kiwiplan Software verhalf
außerdem im Januar dieses Jahres zu
einem erneuten Meilenstein, als die
Produktion den bisherigen
Produktionsrekord brach. Ein bis zwei
Wochen nach Installation der Kiwiplan
Lösung war das Unternehmen in der
Lage, die durchschnittliche Arbeitsbreite
um zusätzliche drei Zentimeter zu
steigern.
Das Wellpappenwerk Franz Gierlichs
plant außerdem das erste
Wellpappenwerk Europas zu sein, die
Kiwiplans neue herausragende
kaufmännische Software - Enterprise
Sales Processing (ESP) - verwendet.
Außerdem bestehen Pläne zur Schaffung
einer Schnittstelle der Kiwiplan
Systeme mit einem Ducker Inserta.
Kommentar von Gierlichs: „Die
Margen in der Wellpappenindustrie
sind niedrig und Fehler können
kostspielig sein. Durch
Spezialisierung und Investition in gut
ausgebildete Mitarbeiter und
hochmoderne Systeme und
Einrichtungen bleibt unser
Unternehmen jedoch
konkurrenzfähig und profitabel.
Unser Familienunternehmen
besteht seit 99 Jahren und produziert
seit dem Jahre 1930
Wellpappenprodukte. Kiwiplan stellt
einen bedeutenden Teil unserer
Firmenstrategie dar, die auf die
Erhaltung eines guten,
kontinuierlichen Wachstums und
Erfolgs für das Wellpappenwerk
Franz GierlichsGmbh & Co. KG in
der Zukunft ausgerichtet ist.
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KIWIPLAN’S INTERNATIONAL WEB SITE LAUNCHED
A major Order Entry and Scheduling systems software provider, Kiwiplan is pleased to announce that www.kiwiplan.com is now viewable in English, French, German, and Spanish.
This exciting and in-depth web site invites visitors to learn how Kiwiplan’s Total Solution can
benefit their corrugating and packaging plants. It
features timely and detailed information on all
Kiwiplan products and services, current training opportunities and offerings, upcoming Trade Shows,
press releases, as well as reprints of major industry articles. This new international version of the site provides Kiwiplanís worldwide offices enhanced reach to
their multi-cultural marketplace and will help them better serve their expanding worldwide customer base. Take
a look at www.kiwiplan.com.
WE’LL BE THERE . . . WILL YOU?
Kiwiplan representatives will be available at the following trade
shows and expositions to provide demos, answer questions, and help
you adopt Kiwiplan within your organization. See you there!
ACCCSA
2002 International TAPPI
Corrugated Containers
Conference & CorrExpo
AICC 2002 Annual Meeting
Trade Fair
(Association of Corrugators of the & SuperCorr Table Top
Caribbean, Central and South
October 9-12, 2002
America)
Westin Harbour Castle
September 9-13, 2002
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Quito, Equador
October 27-30, 2002
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Indianapolis, Indiana
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Dirk Pastoor, Sales Manager, Kiwiplan Inc.
presented a technical paper on Waste and
Change at the INSTITUTO AMERICANO DEL
CARTON CORRUGADO (IACOR) meeting,
February 22, 2002 Guadalajara, MX.
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