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Cowlitz Offers Specialty Die Cutting to Manufacturers

When developing containers essential to the delivery of sensitive products, packaging firms nationwide are discovering the importance of hiring professionals whose expertise in die cutting (http://www.cowlitzcontainer.com) make inroads with special-needs companies, and even large integrated packaging firms that may be wise to out-source unique projects that their high-volume set-ups can't accommodate.Although it may appear that the larger firm is giving away business, in fact the opposite is true.

Ralph Clark, vice president of Cowlitz Container & Die Cutting Inc., said integrated packaging outfits come to him to solve problems they don't have time to address.For example, a huge plant that pumps out tons of brown boxes for the moving industry isn't going to shut down its operation to run a 500-piece test for a client. Nor would it necessarily be nimble enough to process short, small volume, and quick runs. But Cowlitz is engineered to be flexible. So Cowlitz runs the quirky project, and the larger firm takes credit for makings its client happy. A happy client is a loyal client.

"It keeps their client in a single-source mindset: they'll keep coming back," Clark said. "We're seeing a lot more requests for quotations from larger firms."

Another key to success, Clark said, is material utilization. A veteran die cutter may save its client large sums of money by delivering an order using less material than expected. For example, Clark said his company cuts a lot of chipboard, often utilizing T-shaped blanks. By drawing on a combination of expert tool design and experience setting up the packaging equipment, Cowlitz recently cut material usage by 28 percent.

"It gets their attention when we get in there and care about the end result," he said.

Cowlitz has been providing services since 1971. Through the years, Cowlitz has diversified to offer a broad spectrum of capabilities customized to serve a multitude of industries. Services include but are not limited to laminating and sheeting, and cutting presentation folders that can be folded and glued at their 22,000-square-foot manufacturing facility. They also cut high impact plastics used in the graphic signage, medical OEM and auto industries.

Clark said he relishes the role of problem solver. And, even after decades of experience in die cutting (http://www.cowlitzcontainer.com or call Ralph Clark at 360-577-8748

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