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Valpak
St. Petersburg‚ FL 33701
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The Valpak® Manufacturing Center is a technological showcase for computer integrated manufacturing (CIM) in print.
The Valpak Manufacturing Center is big enough to hangar 13 Boeing 747s, but it would take many more jumbo jets than that to haul its projected output of 54 billion advertising inserts per year. Under one 10-acre roof, it will produce double the combined volume of two original Valpak plants as it slashes job cycle times from the better part of a week to a handful of hours. Each year, Valpak sweeps more than 500 million insert-filled Valpak "blue envelopes" into U.S. Postal (USPS) mail trays for delivery. It will showcase some of the world's most advanced systems in printing, collation, packaging, warehousing, material movement, and mail distribution as it positions Valpak Direct Marketing Systems, a division of Cox Target Media, for growth and leadership in the direct marketing industry for the next 20 years.
The VMC comprises 470,000 square feet of manufacturing and office space. Resting 18 feet above sea level on a foundation of 1,400 concrete pilings, each about 70 feet long, the plant is built to withstand a minimal Category 4 hurricane. In an emergency, the plant can make its own electricity and sustain operations with an uninterrupted power supply system - a flywheel-driven system that furnishes current during the few seconds it takes for the main generator to come on line.
The plant has the capacity to produce 54 billion inserts annually, all of it in 10,000-piece batches that would be considered short-run quantities in almost any printing environment. In the VMC collation area, envelopes are filled, formed, and sorted entirely without human intervention.