End-product profile

-- Converting Magazine, 4/1/2001

With 100,000 lbs. produced daily, SMARTIESr sweet-and-sour tarts are a huge hit worldwide. "You don't want to run out of wrappers, that's for sure," says Chuck Paulosky, general manager at Northern Expediting Corp., Union, N.J.

As manufacturer of SMARTIES wrappers, Northern Expediting first buys clear cellophane from supplier UCB Films, Inc. (Smyrna, Ga.). After a small test run, an Aquaflex press runs water-based ink at 400 fpm and a FlexoTechnica at 450 fpm to produce 2,000 lbs./shift. The substrate, which is 22.5-in. wide or five rows of wrappers across, is finally slit into 4.5x11-in. individual rolls.