It's one of the biggest questions of today: have we done everything we can to optimize operations? Whether its printers, converters, brands or manufacturers like AR Metallizing, most players linked to the paper sector are looking to adapt to new technologies, rethink sustainability, optimize costs and streamline their supply chain...all while maintaining the price-quality ratio that their customers expect. 

The role of AR Metallizing

Our decades of experience in the paper industry have taught us that it’s not enough to produce an excellent paper product: our customers and partners are looking to us to support them in other ways. We are happy to oblige, and more than ever before, we consider our fantastic papers and paperboards as simply one element of the service we provide.

Over the last years, we’ve refocussed our offering to support our customers and partners in a number of new ways that support the optimization of operations throughout the supply chain.

Extensive product development

AR Metallizing works extensively on product development, both with a short-term and long-term outlook. In the short-term, this translates to extensive support and assistance with optimizing specific label or packaging applications: this is, naturally, part of our standard service.

When we look long-term, we think about the innovations that will be required in the future, whether that is developing our products to provide more efficiency in line with technological advances, or to work better with whatever applications that are required - next year or in five years' time. 

An optimized portfolio designed with our customers in mind 

We have also worked hard to solve several ‘pain points’ for our partners. For example, in today’s fast-paced world, know that getting products to market as quickly as possible is vital, and working with paper producers that can guarantee this is a ‘must’ for many printers and converters. Therefore, we have ensured that our print-ready products support market entry in the minimum time frame. Our R&D teams have also undertaken extensive work to make sure that our papers are optimized to run exceptionally well on both printing and converting machinery to maximize efficiency for our partners. 

Continued, data-centric analysis & waste reduction

We’ve increasingly implemented a more data-driven and analytical approach to our production and have worked hard to grow a company culture where efficiency and waste reduction are at the forethought of our production. This reduction has a knock-on effect on the supply chain: these lean, highly-effective production processes reduce waste in the supply chain by ensuring it doesn’t even exist at the start. Given most of our partners are similarly reviewing their production, this means that overall, supply chains are a lot leaner than they were, an essential requirement for end-users and brands looking for waste reduction and fewer discarded materials during production.