Huhtamaki

WHO IS / WHAT IS:Huhtamaki is a leading manufacture of consumer and specialty packaging.

PRODUCT(S) & SERVICES  WHAT DO THEY DO / WHAT DO THEY MAKE?

Huhtamaki creates specialty food packaging for customers. 

MARKET (S) FOR WHOM DO THEY MAKE IT? Huhtamaki creates products for Ben and Jerry's, Unilever, Quiznos, Starbucks, Blue Bunny, Dean Foods, McDonald's, Sam's Club, Malt-O-Meal, Sysco, Safeway, Publix, Turkey Hill, and many more companies

MATERIALS:  Paper board - thin cardboard, Commodity plastic resins - high volume output use of plastics (such as shrink wrap, beverage containers and trash liners)[not great for environment], Molded Fiber - scraps of fiberboard and newspaper molded into forms (usually drink trays), Metals and engineered plastics- creating equipment.

FORMING TECHNOLOGIES: Automated machines that form the shape of the cup by wrapping it around a form and heating part of the cup that overlays itself to create a seal and keep the cup or food container together

CUTTING TECHNOLOGIES: Die Cutting

JOINING TECHNOLOGIES: I believe they heated the plastic coating on the outside of their packaging until it melted and cooled to form a bond.

FINISHING TECHNOLOGIES: Ink print - printing labels onto sheets of paperboard.

OVERALL IMPRESSIONS / EPIPHANIES/ AHA MOMENTS?

I thought it was impressive what their facility could do. The amount of cups that they were manufacturing seemed like they were creating much more than the world could consume.