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It could be the label on the premade salad you bought at the supermarket or the container it comes in. It could be the steel-toed boots, or the goggles and ear protection you wear at work. It also could be the gloves your dental hygienist wears.  These are among the wide-ranging products Bunzl supplies customers […]

While it’s mostly about the product, the customer experience is important. A smoothie, protein bowl or salad is to be savored, not gulped, at Juice Press. It may taste even better with an agreeable soundtrack.  That’s just one of many amenities Brian Kozlowicz has refined as he nears his second anniversary as JP’s infotech director.   […]

If there’s one regret Sharon Noffze has about working at Ervin Industries, it’s that she never met founder John F. Ervin.  “He was one of the first recyclers, in my opinion,” Noffze says.  Ervin opened his first foundry in 1920, specializing in melting steel scrap and converting it into shot and grit that’s used for […]

Indorama Ventures doesn’t really operate under the radar, but there are times when it seems that way, says Brian Ullrich. “I like to call us the largest petrochemical company you’ve never heard of,” he says. The company was founded in 1994 as Indorama Holdings and became Thailand’s first producer of worsted wool yarn while also […]

Mike King estimates there isn’t a day that passes without a Premier Packaging product arriving at someone’s home. The Louisville, Kentucky-based company has been making boxes, mailers and packaging supplies for almost 30 years. “If you ordered something online, you probably have one of our boxes,” says King, the company’s CIO. King’s role isn’t always […]

Thirteen milliseconds. That’s how quickly researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology found the eyes and brain process images, including this sentence. Dr. Wei “Will” Zhou has focused his career on those 13 milliseconds—mimicking what the eye sees and how it moves to create the microchip technology behind advanced augmented reality and virtual reality systems. […]

When a winery or brewery orders packaging supplies from G3 Enterprises, it can get everything—bottles, corks, caps, labels—in one place, as well as manufacturing, warehousing and transportation services. While this has always been the case, orders with many different items were difficult for G3 to fulfil. Similar product types were grouped in business units with […]

The fact that Robert Rosales won’t be confined to a data center doesn’t necessarily set him apart from other infotech directors. But you won’t find many other IT bosses riding shotgun on a big rig. Rosales has done that and more as the personable and hands-on director of infotech Oak Harbor Freight Lines in the […]

As Tropical Cheese Industries Inc. approaches its 40th anniversary, it can be celebrated as a quintessential American success story though it makes cheeses more typically found throughout Latin and South America. It was founded in 1983 by Rafael Mendez, who’d arrived in the U.S. from Cuba at age 17 with $50. He settled in Perth […]

Up until last year, plant workers at OmniMax International manually typed in data from customer orders, which sometimes led to mistakes. As demand grew, the company’s new owners decided the process needed to be automated. “The new leadership team is big into data,” says Elizabeth Rich, the director of IT for the Georgia-based manufacturer of […]