Kelly Box Celebrates a Year of Safety

Kelly Box has always focused on safety. This year it really paid off. Not only did we get through a year without a lost time accident, we actually made it through the entire year without a single safety report!

"We've had several years without a lost time accident," said Joe Kelly VP of Production, "but I am pretty sure this is the first time we've gone a whole year without a single incident. That is pretty amazing."

Kelly Box tries to keep the safety conversation going through a number of high profile initiatives. Every week without an incident Joe Kelly buys the production team lunch, cooking out hamburgers on Friday. This keeps the focus on safety front and center. After a year the menu is upgraded to steaks for a week and everyone gets a new KBPC jacket or sweatshirt and a picture on the front lawn.

It is a great accomplishment for our team and a record we are very proud of....let's make it two years!

Kelly Box Investing in the Future

At Kelly Box and Packaging we believe, and our customers demand, that we continuously find ways to improve performance and reduce costs. This is never easy. Fast turn-around, agility and responsiveness are key elements of the services we provide. As our business continues to expand and the volume of packaging we run through the plant increases we have to look to technology for answers.

Over the last twelve months Kelly Box has implemented a number of new technologies on our plant floor to improve performance and reduce costs. We installed a robotic feeding system, implemented a new inventory management system, invested in new plant management software, and now we are adding a new 66 x 135 two colorHycorr Rotary Die Cutterand an AG Stacker

We expect the new equipment to increase productivity 20-30%. This in an important improvement as we continue to grow our business while maintaining and improving the level of service and responsiveness our customers expect.  

Recycling Means Recovering

Recycling is about recovering the material far more than it is about using recycled material in the first place.

This is a complicated subject and there is a lot of disinformation out there, so it is nice to come across some hard numbers once in a while that are unambiguous and point the way clearly.

In 2012 91% or 29 million tons of the corrugated packaging used in the U.S. was successfully recovered for recycling. This makes corrugated the most recycled packaging material, outstripping all other mediums by a wide margin.

Most OCC (Old Corrugated Container) gets recycled into new paper products. More than 50 percent was used to make new container board packaging. An additional 12 percent was used to make recycled paperboard and more than 34 percent was exported.

Yes, we are working on a corrugated bottle to replace those plastic bottles filling up the Pacific ocean.


Interesting Talk by Charles Moore http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=en4XzfR0FE8 about plastic.