Safety Meets Efficiency for AVRE Operators, Paper360 May/June 2019

The Association for Vision Rehabilitation and Employment (AVRE) is a private, non-profit organization. Through its business division, AVRE supplies its main cus-tomer, federal government agencies, with copy paper. Like other manufacturers of paper-based office products, AVRE pays utmost attention to product quality, reliability, and equipment efficiency; yet AVRE’s most important requirement is operational safety. The convertingline is handled primarily by blind or visually impaired operators, who make up over 75 per-cent of AVRE’s direct labor force.

Back in 2015, the company realized it urgently needed to modernize its existing converting line in order to be prepared for new product requirements in the future. AVRE wanted to increase its production with a reliable, more flexible solution, guaranteeing higher output without losing product quality. Today, an SHM Digicut sheeter operates in line with a Model 32 ream wrapper from BW Papersystems. Both machines are customized to AVRE’s accessibility requirements and operational safety.

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