StrataGraph Offers Breakthrough Technology

Great Northern recently partnered with Castle-Pierce, a commercial printer with more than 115 years experience in their industry, to form a joint venture: StrataGraph. This initiative focuses their combined expertise in packaging and printing toward providing consumer product companies with a new, cost-effective alternative to market and protect their products in the retail environment.

The cornerstone of this new endeavor is breakthrough web-based packaging technology that guarantees not only structural performance, but high-quality graphics at the same time. Now, business-to-consumer companies can have the structural performance characteristics they need for their retail packaging and the high-quality printing they require to stand out in a competitive marketplace. These benefits can be offered with shorter cycle times and a lower total cost-to-market.

The StrataGraph process takes advantage of streamlined web-based manufacturing technology that allows printing, laminating and die cutting to all be accomplished in line. This eliminates many of the steps in the traditional sheet-fed process and the need for multiple vendors, making turnaround time an issue of the past while integrating significant cost savings at multiple points throughout the process.

The result is dynamic packaging that stands up to the rigors of distribution and gives consumer product companies the shelf appeal they need. StrataGraph's unique process eliminates flute lines, producing a more visually appealing result than traditional microflute offerings. And because of its strength and performance characteristics, it reduces the additional hard-to-handle packaging components that increase retailer set-up time, maintenance and waste. Graphic and structural options are available in multiple combinations, from high-strength laminated and barrier/performance laminated, to printing on film or paper/poly/foil/poly. StrataGraph also offers non-laminated folding carton capabilities, produced at the fastest speeds in the United States.

StrataGraph uses the latest technology in graphic asset management to ensure that a customer's brand identity is presented consistently, which is ideal for projects that require numerous graphic and copy changes, such as private label applications.

Like its joint venture partners, StrataGraph guarantees a hassle-free process that saves customers time and money. Dedicated project management teams consistently monitor all operational processes to ensure optimum results. Supported by state-of-the-art technology and equipment, StrataGraph employees work toward the fastest response time in the industry.