As corporate comptrollers sharpen their scrutiny, in-plants turn to insourcing, marketing and ancillary services. Still, many hardships remain for in-plants. Here’s a candid look.

By C. Clint Bolte

Growing numbers of in-plants are finding it difficult to show results on the positive side of break even. Costs are climbing and volume is stagnating. Even colleges and universities, the bastions of information creation and publishing, are finding less need for ink on paper.

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