Cutting Remarks

Adler was equally concerned with efficiency at Fort Dearborn, where millions of labels are printed each year. "The goal was to obtain the ability, once the label was cut, not to touch it again until it was put into the box," Adler says of the off-loading systems. "When you handle something more than once, you have the possibility of mishaps and, in our case, mixes [mixed up labels]. You could be putting a bundle of corn into a box of green beans."