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Mar 09, 2012
FCA, LLC, the leader in custom designed industrial packaging solutions, announced today that their Design and Engineering Test Lab and its professionals have achieved ISTA certification. The achievement of certification further emphasizes FCA’s commitment to provide leading design, testing and engineering services for critical custom packaging to its customers.
Apr 07, 2011
FCA, LLC (www.fcapackaging.com) the leader in custom designed industrial packaging solutions, announced today the official opening of its upgraded Design and Engineering Center that now includes testing capabilities onsite. Located in Coal Valley IL, adjacent to one of FCA’s major manufacturing facilities, this state of the art packaging research and development center houses FCA’s new packaging testing equipment as well as a team of Packaging Engineers, Project Managers, Sustaining Engineers and Testing Lab Facility Manager. Mike Thompson, Engineering Operations Manager for FCA, says “the addition of testing equipment is the final component of our comprehensive engineering solution. This equipment and testing capability will not only be a valuable service to our customers, but more importantly, it allows us to do in house validation of our engineered prototypes. This gives our customers peace of mind by ensuring they are shipping proven packaging at launch.”
In addition to the packaging design capabilities FCA has long offered its customers, FCA’s in-house testing equipment now includes a hydraulic vibration testing table and an incline impact tester. Jennifer Dormire, Director of Operations Management for FCA adds that “high speed video, accelerometers, and full diagnostic and reporting capabilities give us the ability to provide our customers with validated designs and manufactured product without the need for a third party testing lab or engineering group. We can now perform several testing sequences to ASTM standards. This also allows our customers to greatly reduce testing costs, rapid prototyping timelines, and time-to-test.” FCA continues to lead the custom industrial packaging industry by providing comprehensive solutions that include custom design, manufacturing and management of specialized packaging products. Now it includes complete testing.
About FCA
FCA supplies a broad range of critical, highly customized, heavy duty, just-in-time industrial packaging products and services to many of the world’s leading OEM’s across several industries. FCA’s unique products include custom engineered skids, crates, pallets, boxes and other unique packaging solutions that protect billions of dollars of valuable customer inventory. FCA also supports its packaging products with an array of value added services including design engineering and prototyping, testing, manufacturing, container management and tracking, recycle management and repair/refurbishment.
FCA’s complete solution approach is uniquely tailored to manufacturers with complex and highly-customized packaging requirements. Through design engineering services, just-in-time manufacturing, and ongoing tracking and management services, FCA offers a complete and cost-effective solution for the entire enterprise.
For additional information visit www.fcapackaging.com to learn what FCA can do for your company.
FCA: Custom Packaging Solutions. Designed. Built. Managed.
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Apr 01, 2011
FCA, LLC, the leader in custom designed industrial packaging solutions, announced today the certification of its facilities to ISO 9001:2008 standards. The certification to ISO 9001 standards further emphasizes FCA’s commitment to its customers, to quality, and to ongoing process improvement.
Mar 29, 2011
FCA is excited to announce the grand opening of our new FCA Engineering Center! Located in Coal Valley IL, adjacent to one of our major manufacturing facilities, this state of the art Research and Development Center houses our new packaging testing equipment as well as our team of Packaging Engineers, Project Managers, Sustaining Engineers and Testing Lab Facility Manager.
In addition to the packaging design capabilities we have long offered our customers, we now supplement design with improved prototyping and testing capabilities. Our in-house testing equipment now includes a hydraulic vibration testing table and an incline impact tester. High speed video, accelerometers, and full diagnostic and reporting capabilities give us the ability to provide our customers with validated designs and manufactured product without the need for a third party testing lab or engineering group. We can now perform several testing sequences to ASTM standards! This also allows our customers to greatly reduce testing costs, rapid prototyping timelines, time-to-test.
FCA continues to lead the custom industrial packaging industry by providing comprehensive solutions that include custom design, manufacturing and management of specialized packaging products. Now it includes full testing!
Feb 01, 2011
Since 1985, FCA has grown from a single manufacturing site to over thirteen plant locations across the United States, providing custom industrial packaging to many of the nation’s leading OEMs. There are many factors that have contributed to this phenomenal growth and success, yet I believe it is worth highlighting two things that have really set FCA apart from the pack, resulting in our company emerging as the national leader in custom designed industrial packaging solutions. For over twenty-five years FCA has had an unwavering commitment to two things: product re-design and the sourcing of alternative raw materials. These two objectives go hand in hand, and to help carry out this strategy FCA maintains close working relationships between our sales, design and sourcing teams.
Most packaging companies are simply content with taking the customers’ existing designs and building them with traditional lumber and nails. Not so at FCA. Our in-house design and engineering staff immediately gets to work at redesigning existing packaging with the view to increase performance and reduce cost. At the same time, our purchasing department gets to work at finding the most cost effective raw material with which to build. Gone are the days when raw material was just locally sawn hardwood or softwood, or whatever excess material the local lumber yard had lying around. FCA scours the continent, indeed the world, to identify and locate materials.
Not too long ago, our company opened a brand-new design and testing facility in Coal Valley, IL. Not only are we designing, modeling and testing prototypes there, we are also continually testing new, alternative and innovative raw materials. We now make our containers and shipping platforms from such diverse materials as steel, plastic decking, corrugated, engineered wood, OSB, MDF, and plywood, as well as traditional hardwood and softwood lumber, among others. Our commitment to re-design and alternative materials has recently resulted in FCA developing a patent-pending “hybrid” product constructed from engineered wood components and steel bracketry. This hybrid product can be used as many as 30-50 times and is generally 50% more cost competitive than steel packaging.
Whether in wood, steel, corrugated, or hybrid, our commitment to product re-design and alternative sourcing sets us apart from our competitors, and helps provide a comprehensive packaging solution that adds value to our customers.
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Dec 01, 2010
FCA Packaging would like to thank all of our customers from around the world who took part in our 2010 Customer Satisfaction and Value Survey. The feedback, comments and insight we received will help us continue to provide the most comprehensive packaging solutions, including our custom design, manufacturing and management of specialized packaging products, for the future. The response rate was very encouraging and we are proud to serve our customers; many of whom are the largest and most well-known OEMs in their respective industries. With the information from the survey FCA can continue our intense focus on total value, just-in-time delivery and excellent customer service!
Of particular note was the value placed on comprehensive packaging solutions that FCA provides.
These services include, but are not limited to, the following:
To all our customers, current and future, thank you!
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Sep 30, 2010
Jeff Campagna, President of FCA, recently announced a new facility in Edgecombe County, North Carolina. As the leader in custom designed industrial packaging solutions, FCA offers a broad range of custom packaging that includes wood, steel, corrugated and hybrid products. The Kingsboro-KanBan facility will manufacture skids that will house advanced manufactured engines. The facility will begin operations within the next 60 days and initially employ 20 individuals with plans to expand to 40.
According to Leonard Wiggins, Chairman of the Edgecombe County Board of Commissioners, “the creation of 40 new jobs is great news for us.” “The Partnership is pleased to have assisted FCA in the location of their first North Carolina operation. We also thank the NC Department of Commerce for their assistance on this project," said Carolinas Gateway Partnership Chairman, Frank Harrison. “FCA will be providing jobs to the area workers and that is so important in these tough economic times.”
The official Press Release from Carolinas Gateway Partnership is available for more information.
Aug 27, 2010
We specialize in just-in-time, custom wood, corrugated, steel and hybrid packaging. From our design engineering to our manufacturing and packaging management services, FCA brings you sustainable value in at least 10 distinct ways:
For more information review our Case Study – Cost Savings and Lead Time Reduction
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Aug 26, 2010
FCA can create a custom solution to significantly reduce your packaging costs.
With our use of engineered wood we can design and develop a more durable custom packaging solution. FCA can design a flexible, reusable product that significantly reduces purchasing costs. We have developed a patent pending hybrid solution that is highly flexible and environmentally friendly. This hybrid packaging proactively addresses your desire to drive costs out of the manufacturing process and minimize environmental impact.
FCA can also manage all the logistics, inspection and maintenance of the packaging products to lengthen the life of your packaging in the field, saving you thousands of dollars in packaging and disposal costs.
FCA can help you design a custom, returnable and cost-effective solution for your enterprise.
For more information review our Case Study – Recycled Packaging Program Savings
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