One of the oldest box companies west of the Mississippi, Lawrence Paper Company is a family-owned business established in 1882.
The need to modernize drives digital innovation
With about 215 employees at its Kansas location, Lawrence Paper Company produces a variety of boxes and packaging materials, ranging from simple brown boxes to items large enough to hold auto parts. The company serves about 2,000 customers ranging from pet food producers to beer brewers, from industrial to retail, and from manufacturing to the automotive industry. Last year, it made enough corrugated sheets to circumnavigate the globe. That volume of work requires precise record-keeping, which used to generate a lot of paper. “We’ve been around for so long that we have been doing things the same way for 30 to 40 years,” says Mike Cordaro, I.T. Specialist & Special Projects Manager. “There was a lot of paper pushing between different departments. We wanted to be more efficient.”
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