Carton, Board & Paper Fast help after a wasp sting
August Faller delivered 10,000 folding boxes for urgently-needed medicine – in just three days
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ummertime is wasp season – and it's a worrying time for people who are allergic to the
poison of these striped sting carriers. If an allergic reaction or even
anaphylactic shock occurs after a wasp sting, special liquid medicines promise relief. In the summer of 2018, for some unknown reasons, a dangerous supply bottleneck suddenly threatened the market and Pohl-Boskamp, a manufacturer of wasp sting allergy medication, was asked to make its drug Okrido available as quickly as possible. On a Thursday afternoon in the summer of 2018, August Faller, a pharmaceutical packaging specialist based in Waldkirch, Germany, received an emergency call from the pharmaceutical company G. Pohl-Boskamp – they needed 10,000 folding cartons urgently to deliver their special drug Okrido as quickly as possible. Okrido was in stock – but the impending bottleneck meant that the delivery process had to be accelerated
and brought forward. The folding cartons had already been ordered, but delivery was scheduled to take place two weeks later. August Faller reacted quickly – and with great commitment – to produce and deliver the cartons earlier.
OUTSTANDING OVERTIME The packaging specialist set all the wheels in motion, changing its order planning and getting its production team to put in an extra weekend shift. On Tuesday morning, the finished packaging was ready at the G. Pohl-Boskamp factory in Hohenlockstedt in Schleswig-Holstein, 850 kilometres distant – to the relief and satisfaction of the customer. Faller's rapid response and the commitment of the entire team helped the manufacturer to bring a much- needed drug quickly to patients, preventing the potentially-dangerous supply bottleneck.
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Kemsley Paper Mill for a site visit that coincided with the conclusion of the government’s Resources and Waste Strategy consultations. As the UK’s largest recycled paper mill,
DEFRA visits UK’s largest recycled paper mill L
ast month, DS Smith welcomed officials from DEFRA’s Resources & Waste Team to its
Kemsley reprocesses up to 30 per cent of the UK’s recycled paper and card feedstock, producing over 825,000 tonnes of recycled papers per year. The tour focused on the challenges of producing high quality performance packaging papers while meeting the increasing performance and recyclability demands of consumers and brands. Sustainability issues were also at the heart of the conversation, with the Mill demonstrating how the 2.5 billion discarded coffee cups in the UK could be recycled at Kemsley and used in new packaging products if collected separately. In addition to the paper recycling process, the DEFRA team was given an overview of waste management and energy challenges at the Mill. These included the on-site anaerobic digestion capability for dealing with organic waste from the paper making process, as well as the Mill’s recently commissioned new combined heat and
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power (CHP) plant, which will help reduce carbon emission on site by around 36,000 tonnes every year. Officials were particularly impressed with the size and scope of DS Smith’s Kemsley operations, as well as its continued investment into recycling more ‘hard to reprocess’ materials. The site tour followed hot on the heels of DS Smith’s announcement that separate collections for paper and card have demonstrable financial benefits, according to research involving Reigate and Banstead Council, one of DS Smith’s customers. According to this research, £100 million in savings could be realised by local authorities, were the concept adopted nationwide. Commenting on the visit, Peter
Clayson, head of government and community affairs for DS Smith Group, said: “We were delighted to welcome the team from Defra to our Kemsley facility and to offer an insight into the work we do. The visit was a timely and important opportunity for DEFRA to learn more about our operations, industry views and experiences, particularly following the recently-concluded Resources and Waste Strategy consultations. “These consultations will really help shape the performance of the recycling
industry over the coming years. DS Smith is a reprocessor as well as a collector, which means we see first-hand the importance of quality in recycling materials used in manufacturing processes. “Our own research here at Kemsley
shows that contamination of paper and card for recycling that comes through mixed collection streams can be up to double that of what we would expect from streams where paper and card are collected separately. Recent work from some of our customers has shown that the financial case for separate collections is a compelling one.”
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