Managing Growing Volumes at Mary Kay Inc.

All folding is done on the in-plant's three Vijuk folding machines. The newest, the Vijuk SAF 36, is a six-plate folder that can handle the lighter weight paper used for the pharmaceuticals—a 35-lb. offset sheet. And the folding can be complicated. For instance, one job that was in process when Hopson was interviewed for this story required folding an 8x20˝ sheet to 8x1˝ so it would fit in a tall, skinny box. Printed two-up on one of the Heidelbergs, the job ran at 5,000 perfected sheets per hour on press. Then came folding.