Sun Inc. -- Integration Put to the Test

The decision to add all new equipment was partly a matter of necessity, but also a strategic move to facilitate integration of the entire process. “Once we started creating new capacity by adding the press, we needed cutters, folders, stitchers and that type of support equipment anyway,” Cook notes. “We felt that if it (integrated production) had any chance of success, all of the new equipment needed to be brought in at one time.”