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Box Manufacturing

Box Manufacturing

Clean, Lean & Agile Operations

Our box plant is clean, lean, agile and highly organised. This means that we aren't forced to inflict long production runs on our customers. Our constant focus on lean and improving efficiency means we can supply shorter runs – but still at highly competitive prices.

Capacity & Lead Time Excellence

We're constantly managing our machines' utilisation to ensure that we always have sufficient capacity to fulfil our orders, in full and at our industry-leading, short, lead times; even at seasonal demand peaks.

Operational Advantages

How our lean operations benefit our customers

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Clean & Lean Operations

Highly organised box plant that enables short production runs without inflicting long runs on customers

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Competitive Pricing

Constant focus on lean and improving efficiency allows shorter runs at highly competitive prices

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Capacity Management

Sophisticated machine utilisation management ensures sufficient capacity for short lead times

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Agile Planning

Goose BMS facilitates live planning and adaptation to demand changes and urgent requirements

Goose Integration & Planning

Our sophisticated business management system – Goose – facilitates live and agile planning. We are highly capable of adapting to changes in demand and sudden, urgent requirements from our customers.

Goose also incorporates line-side data capture to provide quality, traceability and performance feedback for interrogation. This provides laser-sharp focus for our continuous improvement department.

Live Planning: Real-time adaptation to demand changes
Data Capture: Line-side quality and performance tracking
Continuous Improvement: Performance feedback for optimization

Production Planning Flow

Customer Requirements
Goose Live Planning
Agile Production

Quality Control & Technology

Industry-leading quality standards through technology and maintenance

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Line-Side Data Capture

Goose incorporates real-time data capture for quality, traceability and performance feedback

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Continuous Improvement

Performance data provides laser-sharp focus for our continuous improvement department

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Preventative Maintenance

Rigorous planned preventative maintenance achieves industry-leading reliability and quality

Defect Rate Achievement

Industry-leading product defect rate currently stands at 714PPM (Parts Per Million)

Continued Investment & Growth

We are undertaking significant investment to further increase our capability and capacity – but always staying true to our ethos of maintaining exceptional service levels.

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714PPM Defect Rate

Industry-leading product quality standards

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Preventative Maintenance

Rigorous programs ensuring reliability and performance

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Capability Expansion

Significant investment in capacity while maintaining service levels

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