Case Study
A&R leads the way in meeting Europe’s folding carton needs with its advanced, integrated workflow
The pedigree of A&R Carton goes back to the beginning of the past century, when Åkerlund and Rausing, the inventors of the Tetra Pak, founded the Swedish company in 1929. Nearly a century and several buyouts/acquisitions later, AR Packaging — A&R Carton’s owner — earned a place as one of the top 3 European folding carton converters. Some of that success is due to a robust business and production workfl ow solution, the EFITM Packaging Suite, with Radius ® ERP software at its core. A&R Carton decided to adopt an advanced, packaging- specifi c workfl ow system in 2001 to manage production. General manufacturing ERP systems were quickly ruled out as candidates due to the specialist nature of the business. Initially, one of the plants in Finland installed the core Radius ERP syste