Greycon has recently won new business with BOPP Film Manufacturer, Biofilm. Greycon will be implementing X-Trim at Biofilm’s facilities in Mexico and Colombia.
Biofilm is a major player in the international BOPP Film market. Over the years, Biofilm has added to its product lines by increasing the number of manufacturing sites and capacity thus ensuring a need for a powerful trim optimisation system by Greycon.
Greycon’s presence in the plastic film industries has grown tremendously, with the realisation that Greycon’s solutions provide a competitive edge and a return-on-investment that is measured in months for both bubble and conventional line processes.
Greycon’s advanced trim system will bring numerous benefits to Biofilm including: increased production throughput (at primary lines and metallizers), reduced waste, overrun, improved use of inventory (trim around faults, consume semi-finish stock, and reduced inventory levels due to better trim planning).
Jeronimo Alvarez, Senior Consultant at Greycon commented: “We are very pleased to announce this new partnership with Biofilm and look forward to starting the project with them. We are continuously striving to improve our solutions and ensure our clients receive the best ROI. Winning new business like Biofilm and working on new projects will enable us to have the tools to refine our extensive range of specialist software solutions.”
About Biofilm
Since its establishment in 1988, BIOFILM has looked internationally to build its business. Today with on-going sales in 19 countries in North, Central and South America as well as several in countries Europe, BIOFILM has become a major player in the international BOPP marketplace. BIOFILM’s first production facility its located in Cartagena, Colombia where today there are three modern production lines.
In January 2017 AJ Oster went live with the implementation of Greycon’s trim optimisation tool, X-Trim. The go-live included all six AJ Oster sites with full Greycon on-site support services available at each site.
Greycon first conducted a pilot in 2014 to simulate AJ Oster’s current trim process alignment to Greycon’s X-Trim tool implemented with Oracle business solutions. During the pilot Greycon found the current typical slitting planning process limited to one or two orders grouped and slit against one master coil. In addition, as a fast turn slitting operation there were intentional limits on run length in order to meet dynamic shipping requirements.
AJ Oster decided to appoint Greycon after recognizing numerous benefits from Greycon’s X-Trim optimisation tool. X-Trim allows the AJ Oster users to manage the restock process, providing the ability to produce the right widths and lengths anticipating business demand for finished goods inventory.
Jay Jordan, Sales Manager North America at Greycon commented: “We have really enjoyed working on this project for AJ Oster. Greycon’s X-Trim tool will bring multiple benefits to AJ Oster. X-trim will provide AJ Oster the visibility of all available inventory when optimizing daily sales demand in the quick turn job shop.”
“When Greycon piloted in 2014 it showed great potential. We were excited to see the benefits of using this tool in everyday production at AJ Oster. Since the implementation, Greycon’s tool has proven invaluable. It has helped increased our production throughput, reduced waste, overrun, and manage restocking,” says Eric Ramocki at AJ Oster.
About AJ Oster
The AJ Oster story began in 1922, when Aaron J. Oster opened a one-man scrap metal operation in Chelsea, Massachusetts. Today, the firm he founded has grown into one of the nation’s largest distributors of metal foil, sheet and strip, providing vitally important products and services to customers across the continental U.S., Mexico and the Caribbean. As an affiliate of Olin Brass, AJ Oster is a key member of one of the world’s largest and most respected organizations in the metals industry, poised to play a major role for years to come.
Working towards its goal of zero emissions and zero waste, Yuen Foong Yu Paper (YFY) appointed Greycon to roll out its trim optimisation solution, X-Trim, to the YFY Xinwu mill in Taoyuan, Taiwan. Implementation and acceptance completed in January and the project went live last month (March 2018).
Yuen Foong Yu Paper produces reading and writing, industrial and home use paper and ranks among the 50 largest paper manufacturers in the world. It is characterised by a fully integrated production chain covering upstream (forestry, pulp), midstream (paper manufacturing) and downstream (printing, packaging, and design) operations, which yield beneficial synergy effects.
Mr. Li Benyuan, IT manager at Yuen Foong Yu Paper said: “We have worked with Greycon since February 2014 when we integrated X-Trim into our mill in Yangzhou, China. The success of its trimming optimisation solution has led YFY to expand its usage to the mill in Taiwan. We are developing a blue print for a green business and the inclusion of X-Trim assists with both reducing waste as well as increasing production efficiencies.
“We are driven towards achieving zero emissions and zero waste. To date we have developed methods of producing pulp that converts agricultural wastes, such as rice and wheat straws, into raw materials for paper production through enzyme-catalysed decomposition. This process reduces deforestation, carbon emissions and solves the problems of pollution from traditional chemical pulp production methods. We also participate actively in the carbon footprint verification process. During the production processes, methods of recycling to reduce the amount of waste generated are directly implemented. Existing wastes are also converted into raw materials or used as fuel.”
Tian Jinlong, Business Development Manager at Greycon said: “Over the last four years we have witnessed Yuen Foong Yu Paper continually improving in achieving trim waste reduction, increasing overall production efficiency, and time-saving allowing its planners more time to focus on analytical rather than the routine work of feeding orders into our ERP system. X-Trim has enabled overall equipment effectiveness (OEE) improvement through minimum pattern and knife change numbers. The software integrates easily with Yuen Foong Yu Paper’s Oracle enterprise resource planning (ERP) system and in-house manufacturing execution system (MES), optimising its supply chain management (SCM). We are confident that YFY will experience significant benefits with the Xinwu Mill being trim optimised and look forward to sharing the success with them.”
About YFY
Founded in 1924 by Mr Ho Chuan and his brothers Mr Ho Yung and Mr Ho Yi, YFY dealt mainly in fertilisers, sugar, and grain. ln 1946, the Neiwei factory started producing tissue paper, one-side coated paper and Kraft paper to provide packaging solutions for the rising demand for concrete. This transformation marks the turning point in the history of the company and the start of the evolution into a major player in the paper industry. Yuen Foong Yu Paper Mfg. Co., Ltd (YFY) was established in 1950 and Yuen Foong Yu Paper is widely regarded as the pioneer of privately owned paper manufacturers in Taiwan.
In 2005 and 2007, Yuen Foong Yu Paper established independent subsidiaries for the industrial paper and consumer products division. In October 2012, the Fine paper and Board division merged with Chung Hwa Pulp Corporation and became known as YFY Inc.
YFY Inc. will continue to view paper manufacturing as its core business; while emphasising professionalism and independent operations of all business areas, as well as promoting flexible management and dynamic use of assets and resources. Emphasis will also be put on strategic investments in the development of progressive sectors such as hi-tech industries, biotechnology, and energy sources.
YFY headquarters are in Taipei, Taiwan.
Turkish coated cardboard producer, Kartonsan has appointed Greycon to implement its full range of solutions including opt-Studio for production planning, X-Trim for trim optimisation and GreyconMill as Manufacturing Execution System at its facilities in Turkey.
Kartonsan is the leading coated cardboard producer in Turkey with about 40% market share, and is the fourth largest producer in Europe. Founded in 1967, Kartonsan has been increasing its capacity and production volume over the last few years by investing in the expansion and modernisation of the company.
Mr Umit Ozkan, Mill Manager at Kartonsan said: “Production power supported by expertise, experience and technology, as well as strong corporate competencies and efficient human resources are among the most important factors and the founding principles for Kartonsan. The implementation of Greycon’s products will ensure we continue to meet and exceed our customer’s needs delivering superior customer satisfaction based on uncompromising quality standards as well as on our production and logistics capacity.”
Greycon’s systems will bring numerous benefits to Kartonsan including:
Constantine Goulimis, CEO at Greycon commented: “Kartonsan maintains its production procedures with a high level of environmental awareness and a minimum use of natural resources and pollution. The usage rate of waste paper in Kartonsan is 99%, exceeding the average use in Europe. We are excited to be working with Kartonsan to implement this project and embed our solutions to assist them in furthering their achievement of targets and objectives, both in economic growth and sustainability.”
About Kartonsan
Kartonsan was founded in 1967 as the “first” private producer of coated cardboards in Turkey, under challenging market conditions at a time when paper production was a state-controlled business. Having begun its production in 1970, Kartonsan, today, is the leading coated cardboard producer in Turkey and the 4th biggest in Europe. According to data gathered in 2015, Kartonsan commands a 40% share of the coated cardboard market in Turkey.
http://www.kartonsan.com.tr/en/
About Greycon
Greycon is the world’s leading provider of production planning, forecasting, scheduling and manufacturing execution systems that have been designed specifically for roll-based & flat sheet industries. Greycon operates throughout the world. Greycon’s strength is the extensive range of specialist software solutions for Plastic Films & Flexible Packaging, Nonwovens, Metals, Converting, Paper and Board industries supported by powerful optimisation algorithms and a highly experienced team of consultants.
Greycon is currently implementing its trim solution, X-Trim on four Paper machines at Jianhui Paper in Dongguan city of China. Dongguan Jianhui Paper is one of the biggest Paper and pulp manufacturer’s in China’s Paper industry.
Greycon will implement X-Trim for trimming optimisation integrating with Jianhui Paper’s ERP system, Inspur. Implementation began in July 2017 and the project is expected to go live in December 2017.
Mr Liu Mingwei, CFO at Jianhui Paper said: “We are looking forward to reaping the benefits of Greycon’s system. Greycon has made the implementation process as easy as possible by integrating with our own ERP system. Greycon’s system will give us more time for business analysis and strategic thinking.”
Greycon’s new system is expected to bring numerous benefits to Dongguan Jianhui Paper at multiple levels. Reducing trim waste, minimising pattern and knife change numbers and in-turn greatly increase Jianhui’s overall equipment efficiency. Stock to trim will significantly reduce the stock amount and cost. Meanwhile, X-Trim will minimise manual dependence and personnel faults during the trim process and improve the customer service level.
“X-Trim is integrated with Inspur ERP, through the integration. X-Trim can be fully localised to meet the needs of each machine. In general, the new automated and integrated system processes will provide Dongguan Jianhui Paper the ability to focus over strategic and operative group improvement, increase industrious competitiveness and bring more time for business analysis and strategic thinking,” commented Tian Jinlong, Greycon.
About Greycon
Greycon is the world’s leading provider of production planning, forecasting, scheduling and manufacturing execution systems that have been designed specifically for roll-based & flat sheet industries. Greycon operates throughout the world. Greycon’s strength is the extensive range of specialist software solutions for Plastic Films & Flexible Packaging, Nonwovens, Metals, Converting, Paper and Board industries supported by powerful optimisation algorithms and a highly experienced team of consultants.
About Jianhui Paper
Dongguan Jianhui Paper Co., Ltd was established in December 2002. The company is located at Huangchong Village, Zhongtang Town, Dongguan, Guangdong Province. It connects Dongguan-Shenzhen Expressway to its east, with its west connecting Guang-Yuan Express Main Line; its south connecting National Route 107 and Guangzhou-Shenzhen Expressway, and its north connecting Dongjiang Golden Watercourse. There is a dense distribution of water and land communication networks sharing a very favorable geographic location. The company has been provided with its own docks, team of vehicles, logistics distribution and after-sale service, which are unblocked and convenient.
The Company specialises in the manufacture of deluxe single-sided duplex board with grey back with the productivity ranking the first in the world. The company provides fixed quantity of 230~450g/㎡, various specifications of flat boards, roll type duplex board with grey back. Its leading products “Jianhui” brand duplex board with grey back has been highly appraised by customers at home and abroad since its launch of products into markets. It has been awarded the famous trademark in Guangdong Province in 2008 and the title of famous brand products in Guangdong Province in 2009. The Company has been chosen as an enterprise with National Quality Level A trust.
Greycon has today announced the 9.2 release of its planning tools, X-Trim® and opt-Studio™.
X-Trim new developments include:
opt-Studio new developments include:
Constantine Goulimis, CEO at Greycon, said: “Growth in both our installed user base and internal development resources has enabled us to deliver this version to the market quickly. Improvements include new features as well as enhancements. Trials at one of Greycon’s plastic film clients resulted in a waste reduction from 8% to 3% in one instance, results that are in keeping with our goal of striving to maximise efficiencies, be it by improving material utilisation, productivity or rapid responses to unforeseen problems.”
About Greycon
Greycon is the world’s leading provider of production planning, forecasting, scheduling and manufacturing execution systems that have been designed specifically for roll-based & flat sheet industries. Greycon operates throughout the world. Greycon’s strength is the extensive range of specialist software solutions for Plastic Films & Flexible Packaging, Nonwovens, Metals, Converting, Paper and Board industries supported by powerful optimisation algorithms and a highly experienced team of consultants.
www.greycon.com
London, England. – On April 10, 2017 Greycon successfully completed the fourth stage of a five wave implementation at Resolute Forest Products in Montreal, QC. Resolute initiated the global template rollout campaign to establish Greycon’s X-Trim solution as the company standard trim optimisation system.
Resolute is a global leader in the forest products industry marketing to over 80 countries worldwide and own or operate over 40 Mills. Resolute manufactures pulp, paper, tissue and wood products for clients based in the United States, Canada and South Korea.
Jay Jordan, Sales Manager for North America states: “We are very happy with the progress so far of Resolute’s rollout campaign. Establishing a new system in a company can always be challenging especially when you have multiple sites that need to be aligned. This is why we are so pleased with the X-Trim solution, it integrates seamlessly with SAP, showing Resolute a significant difference almost instantaneously.”
Greycon completed the first wave on February 1st 2015. Since then Greycon’s X-Trim solution has been implemented at 14 Mills. Currently Resolule is implementing the final roll out to go-live in September 2017 which will complete the campaign totalling 16 Mills, all of which are integrated with Resolute’s SAP/APO system.
X-Trim has provided many benefits to Resolute since its implementation, some of which are: it’s easy to use interface, visualised solution and superior waste reduction. Greycon’s certified ‘Interface for Industry-Specific Optimisers’ for APO allows Resolute quick configuration and deployment throughout each wave of the project. Allowing a seamless interface between X-Trim and APO.
About Greycon
Greycon is the world’s leading provider of production planning, scheduling and manufacturing execution systems that have been designed specifically for roll-based & flat sheet industries. Greycon operate throughout the world. Greycon’s strength is the extensive range of specialist software solutions for Plastic Films & Flexible Packaging, Nonwovens, Metals, Converting, Paper and Board industries supported by powerful optimisation algorithms and a highly experienced team of consultants.
www.greycon.com
About Resolute
Resolute Forest Products is a global leader in the forest products industry with a diverse range of products, including market pulp, wood products, tissue, newsprint and specialty papers.
The company owns or operates over 40 pulp, paper, tissue and wood products facilities in the United States, Canada and South Korea, as well as power generation assets in Canada and the United States.
Marketing its products in close to 80 countries, Resolute has third-party certified 100% of its managed woodlands to internationally recognised sustainable forest management standards.
Resolute has received regional, North American and global recognition for its leadership in corporate social responsibility and sustainable development, as well as for its business practices.
Press Contact: Mari Nisbet, mnb@greycon.com, + 44 (0)207 978 0700
Constantine Goulimis, Greycon’s CEO was recently one of the Exclusive Keynote Speakers at OR59 on 12-14th September 2017.
OR59 is the UK’s biggest conference of Operational Research and analytics professionals, academics and practitioners.
The three-day conference was packed with 32 themed stream sessions and workshops, plus some 300 presentations, aimed at sharing knowledge, sparking new ideas, and making new connections.
Constantine presented KBP: A New Pattern Reduction Heuristic for the Cutting Stock Problem. This is a paper on the results from two variants on a new type of heuristic, which is computationally cheap and nicely complements previous ones. The paper was the result of on-going research to reduce the number of slitting patterns, a matter of great importance in some applications, particularly the plastic film industry, where the slitting process can become a bottleneck.
If you would like to learn more on Constantine’s presentation please take a look at the pdf version below:
Arctic Paper has contracted Greycon to upgrade to their system with Greycon’s latest scheduling and trim optimisation solutions, opt-Studio and X-Trim.
In 2002 Greycon first implemented S-Plan and X-Trim at Arctic Paper’s paper mills based in Kostrzyn, Poland. Since then Artic Paper has been a long-standing client of Greycon’s.
Arctic Paper Kostrzyn S.A. is the largest manufacturer of offset papers in Poland. The mill produces over 280,000 tonnes of high quality papers both in reels and sheets every year. More than 75% of this is exported to countries like Germany, Great Britain, France and the Benelux.
Greycon’s solutions have been fundamental to the continued success of Arctic Paper’s production. The Greycon planning solution tightly integrated with the Mill’s manufacturing execution systems forms a critical component in the daily management of Arctic Paper’s operation.
Esa Orola, Global Consultancy Manager of Greycon says “We are really pleased with the results and project execution at Arctic Paper. The Kostrzyn team are able to improve their performance with our latest solutions. It has been really nice to witness. Arctic Paper wanted this project managed by Greycon and to work closely with the Greycon team to adopt the recommended best practices across the operation.”
The migration to opt-Studio and X-Trim’s latest releases has delivered additional benefits to Arctic Paper. There is improved usability and performance, compared to the existing daily scheduling solution from Greycon, which kept the mill in operation 24/7. Incoming orders are automatically scheduled into runs and trimmed with market leading algorithms to minimise waste at the winder and cutter machines.
“One of the benefits we are really pleased with in the new Greycon solution is the enhanced functionality. There is quite a lot in there. One exceptional aspect worth mentioning is that the other departments did not even notice that the old system disappeared and a new one came instead. This means of course that the integration was functioning very smoothly from day one. The implementation team were excellent and completed thorough tests to make this happen.” says Mr. Piotr Stolowski, Planning and Supply Chain Manager, from Arctic Paper.
About Greycon
Greycon is the world’s leading provider of production planning, scheduling and manufacturing execution systems that have been designed specifically for roll-based & flat sheet industries. Greycon operates throughout Europe, the Americas, Africa and Asia. Greycon’s strength is the extensive range of planning, scheduling and MES software solutions for Paper & Board, Plastic Films & Flexible Packaging, Nonwovens, Metals and Converting industries supported by powerful optimisation algorithms and a highly experienced team of consultants.
www.greycon.com
About Arctic Paper
Arctic Paper S.A. delivers value, reading pleasure and a sense of touch through quality paper grades.
As a leading European producer of high-quality graphic papers, with annual revenues of approximately PLN 3 billion company is listed on the Warsaw and the NASDAQ Stockholm stock exchanges.
Annually, Arctic Paper delivers over 700,000 tonnes of premium graphic paper – for quality printing, reading and branding purposes – produced by more than 1,250 dedicated employees at three mills and distributed by 14 sales offices. Arctic Paper prioritises a strategy of sharp focus on cost minimising, on flexibility and on efficiency of different units in order to further strengthen the market share in the mature and declining paper market.
www.arcticpaper.com
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Constantine Goulimis, CEO at Greycon, will be one of the Keynote speakers and will be presenting a paper on KBP: A New Pattern Reduction Heuristic for the Cutting Stock Problem at the upcoming OR Society Annual Conference (OR59).
OR59 will be taking place on 12-14th September 2017 in Loughborough University, UK. There will be plenary speakers, keynote speakers, around 200 paper presentations in streams ranging from analytics to transport, the unique practitioner/academic collaboration sessions, a varied social programme plus much more.
Constantine will be presenting results for two variants on a new type of heuristic, which is computationally cheap and nicely complements previous ones. The paper is the result of on-going research to reduce the number of slitting patterns, a matter of great importance in some applications, particularly the plastic film industry, where the slitting process can become a bottleneck.
To find out more about OR59 or to book your place to see Greycon’s presentation please visit www.theorsociety.com
About OR Society
Founded over 60 years ago in succession to the Operational Research Club which was set up in 1948, The UK’s OR Society is the world’s oldest-established learned society catering to the Operational Research (O.R.) profession, and one of the largest in the world, with 2,700 members in 66 countries.
www.theorsociety.com
About Greycon
Greycon is the world’s leading provider of production planning, scheduling and manufacturing execution systems that have been designed specifically for roll-based & flat sheet industries. Greycon operate throughout the world. Greycon’s strength is the extensive range of specialist software solutions for Paper & Board, Plastic Films & Flexible Packaging, Nonwovens, Metals and Converting industries supported by powerful optimisation algorithms and a highly experienced team of consultants.
www.greycon.com
Press Contact: Mari Nisbet, mnb@greycon.com, + 44 207 978 0700
The partnership between Greycon and SRF Polyester Film Division started in 2012 when the division selected Greycon’s X-Trim for the slitting optimisation of its BOPET plant in Indore (India). The selection process involved many providers evaluated through a detailed trial using real-life data by SRF team.
X-Trim stood out for the optimisation results showing:
Following this initial successful implementation, SRF rolled out the solution to their new sites in:
Both sites are greenfield and are fully operational with X-Trim integrated with Oracle EBS.
Anil Gupta, SRF VP-IT in charge of the group information systems, commented that: “I am very pleased with our choice of X-Trim and Greycon as partner. Greycon team has shown consistent commitment at all stages including making some adaptation to the solution reports for our shopfloor instructions needs. The planning teams at each site mentioned they are very excited and comfortable using X-Trim after the first week of training. It is an extremely fast tool which simulates different scenarios”.
Abder Guezour, Global Business Development Manager at Greycon says: “I have done some implementation work myself directly working with SRF team together with our partner in India, Sharad Mittal. I enjoyed working with the team backed by the results we have obtained with X-Trim, the approach of SRF to adopt new business processes to yield further benefits. I am also pleased to see SRF team and our team of consultants & support interacting regularly ensuring knowledge sharing and keeping up-to-date with recent versions of the system”.
About SRF
With operations in three countries, SRF provides flexible packaging solution to a wide gamut of applications ranging from food to non-food both in the category of fast moving consumer goods and industrial products. The company takes a justifiable pride in enjoying its customers’ preference based on their consistent experience of ‘Easy To Do Business With’, a motto that SRF stands committed to.
Equipped with state-of-the-art production facilities, SRF is one of the largest manufacturers of a spectrum of standard and speciality Bi-axially Oriented Polyethylene Terephthalate (BOPET) and Bi-axially Oriented Polypropylene (BOPP) films. SRF exports packaging films to around 70 countries.
Conforming to the global standards, SRF’s packaging films are predominantly used in flexible packaging of soaps, detergents, tea, shampoo sachets, food packaging, cable, insulation, ducting tape, textile etc.
About Greycon
Greycon is the world’s leading provider of production planning, scheduling and manufacturing execution systems that have been designed specifically for roll-based & flat sheet industries. Greycon operate throughout the world. Greycon’s strength is the extensive range of specialist software solutions for Paper & Board, Plastic Films & Flexible Packaging, Nonwovens, Metals and Converting industries supported by powerful optimisation algorithms and a highly experienced team of consultants.
Press Contact: Mari Nisbet, mnb@greycon.com, + 44 207 978 0700
Greycon was appointed by Tatrafan to implement a trim optimisation solution after a careful evaluation of the current slit optimisation system at Tatrafan’s plant in Svit, Slovakia. Tatrafan is a BOPP (Bi-Oriented Polypropylene) packaging film producer part of the Terichem Group and produce 17,000 tonnes of packaging film per annum.
After a successful pilot where some of the benefits from Greycon’s solution included; reduction of trim waste and optimisation of knife changes. Tatrafan could see the benefits to implementing Greycon’s trim optimisation solution, X-Trim. X-Trim was integrated with Tatrafan’s Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system, SAP.
Jari Kaukiainen, Sales Manager for EMEA states; “Tatrafan represents a great example where the benefits became obvious through a small pilot project before the implementation. This is one of those supercool aspects with the X-Trim solution, as it is possible to run X-Trim as a stand-alone solution for a period and afterwards integrate it seamlessly with SAP, showing Tatrafan a significant improvement almost from day one.”
“We were very happy to continue on from the successful pilot project and move Greycon’s state of the art optimising tool into daily production at Tatrafan. It is the combination of the various efficiency improvements such as waste minimisation, optimisation of knife changes, minimisation of number of patterns as well as managing different winder types combined with the easy-to-use trim solution which make a difference in Tatrafan’s daily production processes” comments Martin Lach, Managing Director at Tatrafan.
About Greycon
Greycon is the world’s leading provider of production planning, scheduling and manufacturing execution systems that have been designed specifically for roll-based & flat sheet industries. Greycon operates throughout the world. Greycon’s strength is the extensive range of specialist software solutions for Plastic Films & Flexible Packaging, Nonwovens, Metals, Converting and Paper & Board industries supported by powerful optimisation algorithms and a highly-experienced team of consultants.
About Tatrafan/Terichem
More than 80 years of tradition of packaging film and BOPP film production in Slovakia and Finland created the foundations on which Terichem was built.
Terichem is the joint venture of Finnish company Ab Rani Plast Oy and the Slovak company CHEMOSVIT, a.s. with production sites in Slovakia, Finland and Ukraine.
For the last 20 years Terichem has been operating successfully in the global market of BOPP film manufacturers and suppliers under the brand TERICHEM.
Since 1.1.2017 Terichem operates in the market of BOPP film for packaging of tobacco, food and other products under the brand TATRAFAN. The division for BOPP film for production of capacitors is separate and operates today under the brand Tervakoski film.
www.terichem.sk
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London – April 2017 – Greycon today announced its Greycon Suite 8.9 has achieved certified integration with SAP® Business Suite software and the SAP Advanced Planning and Optimisation (SAP APO) component. The solution has been proven to integrate with SAP APO providing another step forward on the road to Greycon fully integrating with SAP HANA.
The SAP Integration and Certification Center has certified that Greycon Suite solution version 8.9 integrates with SAP APO to exchange critical data with instances of SAP Business Suite software.
Abder Guezour, VP Global Sales, commented from Greycon: “Greycon software has been certified by SAP for a number of years now and this certification is important for our clients as many of them use SAP APO. Greycon’s systems are designed to be open and to work with our clients own systems, recertifying with SAP proves we do this.”
About Greycon
Greycon is the world’s leading provider of production planning, scheduling and manufacturing execution systems that have been designed specifically for coil-based & flat sheet industries. Greycon operate throughout the world. Greycon’s strength is the extensive range of specialist software solutions for Paper & Board, Plastic Films & Flexible Packaging, Nonwovens, Metals and Converting industries supported by powerful optimisation algorithms and a highly experienced team of consultants.
www.greycon.com
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London, England. – November 9th 2016 – RDM recently appointed Greycon to implement a new manufacturing execution system for their board mills throughout Europe.
RDM is the second largest European producer of recycled carton board. The different types of cardboard produced by the Group target all packaging and publishing applications.
Greycon will be implementing the entire Greycon Suite of modules for the paper & board industry. This includes: opt-Studio® for centralised planning and scheduling, X-Trim® for trim optimisation and GreyconMill™ for production tracking, process integration and despatching. In parallel, RDM selected Microsoft AX as the centralised ERP system.
The implementation started in May 2016 with the group template and will be rolled-out to a total of six mills; three in Italy, two in France, one in Germany plus one converting centre in Italy.
The new system is expected to bring numerous benefits to RDM. One benefit will be enhanced visibility and transparency across the operations enabling RDM to manage all areas of the business through centralised ERP, planning tools and integrated production reporting.
Some key features of Greycon’s solution are: focus on optimisation to improve the production efficiency, multi-site planning, customer service functions (consolidating the orders status and information from planning & production, offering ATP/CTP functionality).
Abder Guezour, VP Global Sales at Greycon commented: “We are very pleased with the progress at RDM, we believe the Greycon Suite and Microsoft AX system will minimise the manual, repetitive and time consuming tasks and in consequence streamline RDM’s production processes saving both time and money. The replacement of the legacy and mill-based systems by an integrated and modern solution will allow the group to minimise the IT risks, fulfil its objective of adopting the best practices between the mills and support the growth of the business.”
“We are looking forward to the completion of this project, with the new system in place; this will give us more time to dedicate to our core business analysis and strategic thinking.” says Daniele Gatti, CIO from RDM.
About Greycon
Greycon is the world’s leading provider of production planning, scheduling and manufacturing execution systems that have been designed specifically for roll-based & flat sheet industries. Greycon operate throughout the world. Greycon’s strength is the extensive range of specialist software solutions for Paper & Board, Plastic Films & Flexible Packaging, Nonwovens, Metals and Converting industries supported by powerful optimisation algorithms and a highly experienced team of consultants.
About RDM
RDM Group is the leading Italian and second-ranked European producer of cartonboard based on recycled material. The different types of cartonboard that RDM produce targets all packaging and publishing applications. It has a production capacity splitted among several mills in Italy, France and Germany. The RDM products are offered through different brands to meet the customers’ requirements and to achieve a widespread presence in Italy, as well as in all European countries. Following the recent acquisition of Cascades s.a.s., French company which operates in the virgin-fiber cartonboard business, RDM is today a leading Group with more than 1 million tons per year of installed capacity.
www.rdmgroup.com
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Greycon is pleased to announce the release of Greycon Suite 9.0. This release marks the third iteration of X-Trim front-technology in 30 years (first Fortran in 1985, then VB6 in 1995, now .NET’s C#) and now completes the migration of all Greycon products to .NET.
In addition to the front-end migration X-Trim now is also 15% faster on difficult-to-solve problems, thanks to advances in the underlying Gurobi mathematical programming libraries. Further improvements to the pattern reduction algorithms show an increase of the reductions from 23.6% (version 8.9 as compared to 8.3) to 24.0% (version 9.0).
The opt-Studio product also contains significant changes in 9.0, including the valuable aspect most requested by clients: comparing the schedule against a baseline scenario, typically set a week earlier. This will show, at a glance, any changes to customer service.
Greycon’s CEO Constantine Goulimis says: “The X-Trim front-end migration was a long and important project. We wanted to avoid losing any functionality or introduce new bugs, so, we adopted a semi-automated translation approach. This allowed us to protect the functionality, as well as track the evolving code base, which went through 7 releases over that period. The changes will cement X-Trim’s position as the leader in the manufacturing industry for next 15 years.”
About Greycon
Greycon is the world’s leading provider of production planning, scheduling and manufacturing execution systems that have been designed specifically for roll-based & flat sheet industries. Greycon operate throughout the world. Greycon’s strength is the extensive range of specialist software solutions for Paper & Board, Plastic Films & Flexible Packaging, Nonwovens, metals and Converting industries supported by powerful optimisation algorithms and a highly experienced team of consultants.
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Press Contact: Mari Nisbet, mnb@greycon.com, + 44 (0)207 978 0700
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