Huhtamaki

Huhtamaki was always one of my favorite places to get called to when I worked at Heubel Material Handling. My job was to diagnose and repair electrical, mechanical, and hydraulic problems with forklifts. So, I saw the operation from a completely different point of view, but was intrigued and would take extended breaks to walk through the production area and just watch everything that was going on.

Another amazingly clean environment for production. Granted paper isn't necessarily dirty, but if not kept in check, the whole place could get out of hand rather quickly considering all of the ancillary mechanical processes that are occuring in conjunction with production of the paper products. The food safe standards obviously have a big part to play in the cleanliness of the place.

It would have been cool to see the design process of a cup or a container and how all of the folds and rounded tops are taken into account.

Materials: Cardboard, glue, plastic, foam.

Processes: die cutting, printing, folding,