by Julia Perney | Feb 7, 2020 | About Apex, Help First, Industry Insights, Informational
What is a CFAT? A CFAT (Customer Factory Acceptance Test) is performed in house where the liquid filling equipment was built while the customer is present. What is an IFAT versus a CFAT? An IFAT (Internal Factory Acceptance Test) is performed in house where the liquid...
by Julia Perney | Jan 22, 2020 | About Apex, Help First, Industry Insights, Informational
There are a multitude of industries involved in packaging a product, or series of products. To grasp a small magnitude of that statement, simply pay attention to all of the different products available to us as a public next time you are out in a local grocery or...
by Julia Perney | Jan 6, 2020 | About Apex, Help First, Industry Insights, Informational, Uncategorized
When we are talking about belt conveyor systems and why speed is relevant, the obvious concern is having the bottles move through the packaging machinery at a constant speed. These could be, and not limited to, liquid fillers, capping machines and labelers. Constant...
by Julia Perney | Jan 3, 2020 | About Apex, Help First, Informational, Uncategorized
Meet Jon Ahlborn. Jon is the Director of Production here at Apex Filling Systems. Prior to joining the Apex family, Jon had a 15-year career in Information Technology and Manufacturing. He found himself more and more intrigued with the ‘how’. “How do products actually...
by Alicia Cannon | Dec 18, 2019 | About Apex, Help First, Industry Insights, Informational
I recently attended Keith Cunninghams 2-day course, ‘Plan or Get Slaughtered’, with a few of our leaders. What an informative and thorough experience we all had. Keith is regarded as one of the world’s foremost authorities on business mastery. As the Chief Executive...
by Julia Perney | Dec 5, 2019 | About Apex, Help First, Industry Insights, Informational, Uncategorized
We have a booming $500 billion per year industry just in global personal care consumers with $90 billion being in the US alone! Simultaneously, the industry’s plastic footprint has ballooned. The amount of plastic packaging on U.S. products (not just on personal care...
