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ACCA 9 th General Meeting on 14 th November 2003 in Japan

The meeting was held in Hotel Grand Palace , Tokyo and attended by 26 persons from Singapore , Malaysia , Thailand , Taiwan , Indonesia , Philippine, HongKong. And of course the host country Japan. Mr. Nigel from Sri Lanka came as observer.

ACCA President, Mr M. L. Agarwal had sent his apology for not being able to attend and chair this meeting.

 

General Meeting

We start with read and adopt the minutes of the ACCA 7 th AGM cum 4 th Term Office Bearers Election held on the 8 th August 2003 at the Grand Copthorne Waterfront Hotel, Singapore – followed by update Accounting Position, membership drive (we follow up membership of SriLanka, Saudi Arabia and Korea, each will be follow up by Mr. Nigel Austin, Mr. Atul Kaul and Mr Gilbert Heyraud (Bobst Group, HK).


 


Mr M L Agarwal proposed Mr M. R. Gopalchary (FCBMI) to take over the Newsletter editorial and production for next issue and the website has been updated.

Afterward, Mr Yasuo Ochi (JCCA) presented a brief summary of the ICCA 16 th Management Conference held at Amsterdam from 13 th to 16 th September 2003 . The 3 main themes of the Conference included Competing Materials Forum, Good Manufacturing Practice (GMP) **, and Radio Frequency Identification Device (RFID). The next ICCA Conference was scheduled to be held at Costa Rica around spring of 2005.

Work Plan for Years 2003/2004

  1. April 2004— China (to coincide with CPTA annual function)
  2. July 2004— Australia (for ACCA's 8 th AGM)
  3. November 2004--- Taiwan

Confirmation of New Members

Mr T. Uchida confirmed the formal applications of two new members, namely Mr Nigel D. C. Austin of Nisol Corrugated Cartons Ltd ( Sri Lanka ) and Ms Tuti Buntaran of PT. Tosi Jasindo ( Indonesia )


  

 

** Good Manufacturing Practise

In Europe , along with the stricter hygienic control of food manufacturing process, there is a move in the corrugated and solid board manufacturers to standardize their good manufacturing practice and to have the third party organization to audit the manufacturing and quality control practice. Actually, the FEFCO is liasing and working with food manufacturers and retailers' organizations. Based on food sanitary and hygienic laws of each country, a draft of a Dutch audit company and a draft of corrugated and solid board plant audit standard with FEFCO.

Main content of them are 1) quality control in plants 2) manufacturing control, 3) preventing of contamination, and 4) hygienic control of employees. The important points in manufacturing control are 5) elimination of glass, hard plastic from production site, 6) cleaning of plant floors, products storage site and production facilities, 7) pest control, and 8) prohibition of drinking, eating and smoking in production site

  • Corrugated Industry in Japan
  • Factory Visit
  • JCCA / NCCA Seminar
  • Sightseeing

 

Corrugated Indusry in Japan

Afterward we have dinner join by JCCA. During the dinner, Mr. Fugjisada explore the superior function of corrugated packaging make it widely used throughout the world today. In 2002 corrugated production in Asia esimated at 41 billion 250 million square meter, whiloe production in North America totalled to 41 billion 290 million square meter and in Europe estimated to 39 billion 540 million square meter.

In japan at present there are 300 corrugated manufacturer operating 509 corrugators operate in excessive competition. Out of it 3 major companies accounting for 70% market share.

To their business each corrugated manufacturer has to do two steps, i.e :

  1. Promote the reflection materials price increases in the price of corrugated for ensuring approriate profit.
  2. To reevaluate the cost of manufacturing corrugated

In general at present the corrugated industry in Japan making every effort to improve quality and productivity with seminar, cooperation with related industries, suppliers of machinery, adhesive, etc as well as improving the image of corrugated.

 
 

 

FACTORY VISIT

One day before the the meeting, JICA had been kindly arrange factory visit to Tomoku at Tatebayashi and Iwatsuki Plants.

The first plant we visit was located in Tatebayasi (1,5 hours drive from Tokyo ). This plant has got ISO 1400 certification. The operate 2 lines corrugated : (1) 2.450 mm width MHI with 250 mpm production speed and (2) 1.850 mm MHI with 200 mpm production speed with 10 lines converters now they make annual production of 15 million sqm per month. This very clean plan has an extreme efficiency of very low waste. They not only allowed us to see their very modern Mitsubushi vertical corrugator also inform us the work flow and answer our curiosities as well. And Mr. Uchida help us with the translation.

We got a very cute Japanese cookies souvenier and they also arrange a professional photographer for our group photo. During this visit MACCMA give souvenir to this Tomoku Plant and a fterward we make a group photo in front of the plant.

Then we went to Tomoku Iwatuki plant. Mr. Ogawa the General Manager. Explained that this plant has started in 1971 with 10 million sqm annual production (no. 1 in Asia at that time). Now all of their 13 plants has been electronically integrated to make more effieciency either for the production and R & D.

 

This renovated was done in 1998 and this year they start to operate one U type MHI corrugator (2 floor corrugator with only 2 operators and 3 helpers) to replace the old 2 line MHI and event have much more efficiency, Before one corrugator line work 3 shift and one corrugator line work 1 shift, now with the new one only wth 2 shift they can cover the whole job even better. This new corrugator has only 80 m length, used less energy and can make 500 job change in one shift with 5 kind of paper width and 32 grade combination. To achieve this high combination, they give only one day lead delivery time to the paper supplier.

 		  

Mr. Sonoki, the plant manager giving us presentation on the plant configurations, machine and system they use. Before and after the renovation.

 

 

 

Welcome Dinner

After the factory visit we have a welcome dinner at the hotel.

On picture seen :
Taiwan and Indonesian delegation



JCCA/NCCA Technical Seminar

As the important point determining the finish of corrugated cases is joint accuracy, this seminar is the research into accuracy for the Flexo Folder Gluer ( FFG ),i.e. :

  • Corrugated boards with damaged flute tips are a factor causing descrepancies in join accuracy]
  • It is advisable to regulate the pressure applied to the corrugated boards according to composition and quality of boards to maintain joint accuracy
  • It is also advisable to minimize the flattening of both crease edges, and to put deep creased
  • It is necessary to stury the differences in joint accuracy caused by differences in create shape

 


Afterward Ishikawa technical department industrial machinery corp conduct a technical stury for joint Gap of FFG . While Mitsubishi paper converting machinery designing section conduct a stury to improve the folding Gap Accuracy of Flexo Folder Gluer

 

SIGHTSEEING

On the last day we have a sightseeing to Asakusa Temple .

Before going back to hotel for our flight back home, we have lunch at the Italian Restaurant in Le-Meridian Hotel, Tokyo .

 

 

 


 

 

 

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