Case Studies

Acme Corrugated Box Company is a corrugated box manufacturer located in Hatboro, Pennsylvania. Acme has been transforming carton manufacturing with its products and industry-leading design and development capabilities since 1918. Today, the company produces a large array of customizable products, in...

Rumpke Waste and Recycling, a provider of curbside waste collection and recycling services in Ohio, improved recyclable quality and worker safety with a custom bag capture system for its Cincinnati materials recovery facility. AES designed and installed a turnkey system that captures plastic bags at...

How do you turn an undesirable waste product—glass from municipal recycling—into a valuable commodity? The folks at Aero Aggregates created a unique solution to this very big problem. Their vision: Build a foam glass plant to turn glass cullet into a lightweight, porous material that is highly d...

The Boston Globe, a daily newspaper based in Boston, MA, moved its production facility to a new building in 2016. AES was contracted to design, build, and install a fully integrated scrap collection and conveying system. The result was an efficient, economical, and safe means to automatically handle...

UN1F1ED² Global Packaging is a provider of innovative, high-quality packaging solutions. AES was contracted to provide a scrap removal and baling system with dust control for their location in Sutton, MA. The system collects scrap from six points of generation, including die cutters, folders and gl...

TAVO Packaging is a custom folding carton manufacturer located in Fairless Hills, Pennsylvania. TAVO specializes in carton solutions for large-volume customers. With a focus on quick-serve restaurant, food service, refrigerated/frozen foods, and bakery products, TAVO serves some of the world’s mos...

NPC, a commercial print, mail, and digital communications leader, faced growing challenges with its aging scrap collection system. Initially installed in the late 1990s and modified multiple times, the system’s outdated controls had become unreliable, making Lockout/Tagout procedures difficult and...

Arconic Corporation, a prominent manufacturer in the aluminum converting industry, operates a high-volume aluminum extrusion facility in Cranberry Township, Pennsylvania. The plant’s continuous production schedule generates significant volumes of scrap material.  The Challenges Operating continuo...

Seaboard Folding Box, a Westminster, Massachusetts-based provider of 
high-quality folding cartons, improved throughput, reduced labor demands, and lowered energy costs with an automated scrap removal system built for future growth. When its old scrap system could no longer keep up with production...

Mercury Paper is a producer of paper towels and tissue products located in Strasburg, VA. The company recently expanded their production capabilities by adding two new tissue lines. AES was selected to provide a turnkey solution to capture and convey waste from the converting machines while managing...