07/18/2012 Atlas has installed PCS (Production Control System) from KIWIPLAN at the Severn, MD plant. This product works with the currently installed KIWIPLAN product CSC to provide real time on line data for improved scheduling and visibility. Benefits include:
- Increase on time delivery
- Increase in throughput
- Decrease in WIP and FNG inventory
- Reduced operating costs
- Continuous scheduling solutions for the plant based on current data from order entry, production and shipping.
This product also enhances Atlas focus on LEAN manufacturing by providing a visual planning board that every employee in the company sees. It shows in bottleneck sequence every machine and every order on each machine. Each order is color coded indicating projected completion against due date and time.
03/24/2011 Atlas Container benefits from SmarTrak (.pdf)03/08/2011 Atlas Container installs wireless bar coding system for inventory tracking (.pdf)
09/13/2010 GSA Advantage
Atlas Container is pleased to announce that Atlas Container product offerings are now listed under the GSA Advantage and can be accessed online.
05/18/2010 Additional capacity added at Severn plant as:
- A second Post folder gluer has been added recently. This unit is a 65" x 115" post folder gluer that doubles our capacity in specialized brown containers.
- A 3 color Flexo Folder Gluer with inline die cutting (ZLQ) has also been recently added to the Severn plant.
Atlas Container Corporation contracted with the GSA under Schedule 81 I B Shipping, Packaging and Packing Supplies. As a GSA Schedule contractor with Schedule number GS-02F-0108W, Atlas Container now offers its corrugated manufacturing services to all governmental buying agencies through our listing on the GSA Advantage website.
www.gsaadvantage.gov
Atlas contacts for business awarded under this schedule number are: Tanya Benetatos at tanyab@atlascontainer.com and Jason Barrett at jbarrett@atlascontainer.com
12/01/2009 Leading Indicators (.pdf)
11/05/2009 Agreement with Interstate Resources Inc. (IRI)
Atlas Container Corporation has entered into an Agreement with Interstate Resources Inc. (IRI) of Arlington Virginia to service existing customers doing business with the Atlas plant in Meriden Connecticut. The plant ceased manufacturing operations on October 2nd of 2009. The building is currently under lease to IRI for use as a storage facility and customer service/sales operations. Please call Peter Centenari at 410-551-6300 for further questions.
04/07/2009 Been There, Done That… Atlas Container is anything but conventional (.pdf)
www.aiccbox.org
02/08/2009 Atlas Container helps Food Bank – Lifestyle – (HometownAnnapolis.com)
Anne Arundel County Food Bank director Bruce Michalec stands at the rear of an Atlas Container truck loaded with eight palettes of 5,000 corrugated cardboard boxes donated recently by Atlas Container Corp. of Severn to the food bank.
http://www.hometownannapolis.com/cgi-bin/read/2009/02_08-19/LIF
02/04/2009 Atlas Container Adds Value with Solarsoft (.pdf)
12/09/2008 e-business Launched on Atlas Container Website
Using Internet Explorer or Netscape, customers will soon have access to their data online and in real-time. Current customers will access the Atlas Container web site and enter a password-protected area to do the following:
- Review open order data by PO number, item number or a starting date
- Review scheduled shipments
- Review shipment history in detail by PO number, item number or a starting date
- Review item listings of items either ordered or quoted and on file
- Request a quote for an existing item
- Request a quote for a new item by entering basic style, board grade, size, and print information along with quantities
- Enter a purchase order for previously quoted items.
- These will then be reviewed by Atlas customer Service and imported into Order Entry
11/20/2008 Spartan Dust Collection System Added
Atlas Container in Meriden Connecticut has just added a Spartan Dust Collection System to the 5-color Ward Rotary Die Cutter. This coupled with new Anilox rolls and blade assemblies allows this machine to print the highest quality product possible.
Baltimore Magazine 26 Best Places to Work 2007 – Atlas Container #12 (.pdf)
Printed in Baltimore Magazine
The Power of Listening – Inc.com (March 2003) (.pdf)
Original article can also be found here
Baltimore, An Illustrated History – Featuring Atlas Container (.pdf)
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