The Lawrence Paper Company has been around since 1882, and is located only 5 minutes away from KU campus. Last week, we were able to go behind the scenes with our Materials&Processes class. While we were there, we saw many things like state of the art, multi-million dollar manufacturing equipment. One of these box making machines is able to produce an entire production run in as little as an hour (depending on order quantity)
What I found to be the most fascinating part of our tour was when we walked through the die-making room. From my experience during my freshman year internship, I had only designed
flat dies, where as the standard at LPC is a semi-circle cutting head. I was also impressed that these dies are traditionally assembled by hand because many of the dies I designed were cut using CAD/CAM and other tooling methods.
These are the dies in storage.
When in use, these are mounted on rotating cylinders.
These are huge rolls of paper varying in weight from one to several tons.
Market price per ton is around $550.
Large paper roller.
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