After leaving senior management positions at manroland in 1996 Mike McGuinness and Klaus Dietel stuck their necks out to start PacSys, Packaging Systems Solutions (Mystic, CT) filling a need they had identified to offer complete system solutions (splice, print, cut, stack, automate, delivery/handling, measure quality) for the packaging print production industry. 

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Focusing on "cost to produce" (CTP) economics PacSys, over the next 20 years, became a significant supplier to major folding carton producers and along the way, introduced several new technologies, products and suppliers, many from Europe, to the North American packaging industry. 

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A majority of their $250 Million sales since 1996 have been to paperboard packaging printers/converters operating wide and narrow web flexo and variable web offset presses, PacSys also has introduced many new material handling, vision inspection, color measurement and web cleaning solutions for web and sheetfed offset folding carton, flexible packaging, and shrink sleeve label converters.

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