About Us

• Privately owned and managed for 160 years• Over 450 employees• Over 500,000 square feet of production area• Two divisions:

– Beverage Packaging: Greenfield Operation in Hebron, KY

– Consumer Packaging : Norwood, OH

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Consumer Packaging

• Categories include:– General Consumer– Automotive– Health/Beauty– Pharmaceutical– Food

Beverage Packaging

• Categories include:– Carbonated Soft Drinks– Alcoholic Drinks– Energy Drinks– Bottled Water– Milk/Coffee/Tea– Fruit Drinks

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Lithographic Printing

• Up to Seven Colors and Coating• UV and Aqueous Coatings• Waterless Printing Capability• Large Format• Split Fountain Capability

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Gravure Printing

• Up to Eight Colors• Backside Printing• Up to 250-Line Screen• UV and Aqueous Coatings• Medium to Large Format

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Flexographic Printing

• Up to Ten Colors• Two Color Backside Printing• Up to 150-Line Screen• UV and Aqueous Coating

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Competitive Differentiators

• Intimate service and long-term partnerships tied to Innovation

• Customer directed evolution• Operational Excellence and pricing that

reflects it.• Non-leveraged balance sheet• Minimal layers of management• Integrated growth plan

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We Innovate

• Two tiered:– “ i ” — Incremental Innovation– “ I ” — Radical Innovation

• Continuously developing solutions through:– Our people and their experiences– Knowledge of our customers’ businesses– Relationships we build and Risks we Take

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EZ Access to Specialty Services

• Structural & graphic design• In-house die making• Combination dies and forms• Mechanical packaging• Finishing services• Direct to plate

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Design Services

• Pre-press services • Structural design• Graphic design• Innovation as SOP• Digital work flow

between design and production

Sustainable Structures

• Z-View uses 10% less board than ESE

• Z-View uses 24% less board than FSE

• Product visibility• Proprietary system

Modern Facilities

• 30 Acres• 500,000 square feet• Room to grow

We manage Your Inventory

• Process– Highly trained in-house VMI specialists– Collaborative forecasting and planning– Plan orders to economic order quantity

• Results– Supply that meets consumer demand– Increased sales/reduced out-of-stocks– Reduced working capital requirements

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Quality is Baked In• Six sigma external defect rate• ISO 9001:2008 registered with a focus on

cGMP• Robust mixing prevention program• Risk assessment and copy proofing• Frequent system function validation• Press Simulator Training• Mastery in process improvement

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We Partner

• Independent Carton Group– Nationally over 22 members– Strategic integrated purchasing – Guaranteed production and supply– Eco-system of Technical Capability

• International Packaging Group– NFP association of folding carton producers– Shared global technology expertise and

international sourcing– Access to the latest printing methods and

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