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Dear Valued Employees, Customers, Partners
As we all continue to navigate the uncertainty of COVID-19, our employees, customers, and partners remain our priority. The Atlantic Packaging leadership team is meeting continuously to assess and appropriately respond to the crisis as it evolves, to adjust our operations to mitigate supply chain risk, and to support the health and safety of everyone involved.
What are we doing to limit the potential of the virus affecting our facilities?
As part of the risk and contingency review, key operations and roles within our facilities are set up for the ability to operate from alternate sites and/or remotely from home. We have restricted travel and in-person meetings between our plants to reduce the risk of COVID-19 spreading between our facilities. Our employees are being asked to utilize digital tools for meetings, rather than in person meetings wherever practical.
Within the production facilities, we have taken every precaution possible to reduce the chances of having an affected employee entering the facility and to ensure that if an undiagnosed employee enters the facility, the risk of the virus spreading is limited. In order to limit the chance of an affected employee entering the site, we have undertaken education programs with all employees on importance of personal hygiene to prevent the spread of the virus and the need to avoid the workplace if not feeling well.
To avoid the potential spread of the virus within the facility, there has been increased availability to hand sanitizers within the workplace and our cleaners have increased use of disinfectants. Atlantic has also increased the frequency of the cleaning cycles of all common areas and working surfaces on production equipment.
Atlantic has also taken steps to minimize the interaction of employees in the production environment (EI: employees are operating on staggered breaks/lunches and implementing safe distance working practices). This ensures that if an employee is ultimately diagnosed with the virus, the number of potentially affected employees will be limited.
Lastly, Atlantic is currently working on implementing an employee screening protocol to insure that employees with symptoms are not permitted access to the buildings. This will also include sanitization stations directly inside the facility, where employees will be asked to disinfect upon passing the screening process.
What are we doing to prepare for potential situations within the plants?
Atlantic Packaging is a multi-plant organization with redundancy in both the paper and box manufacturing plants. Our business is vertically integrated and as such is not reliant on outside raw materials including paper supply. We have the ability to produce our products in more than one plant, and we have box plants in different geographical regions capable of serving our customers on a contingency basis. Here are a few of the measures we’re taking.
Is there a risk that product Atlantic is shipping is unsafe?
We do believe that the product we produce is safe and in fact much safer than other packaging containers. The production of paper and corrugated sheets is done at a very high temperature and will kill most pathogens. Once the sheet is being converted into finished goods, our production facilities are outfitted with highly automated equipment that ensure the employees have no reason to touch the product.
According to the CDC, there is no evidence COVID-19 is spread by coming into contact with contaminated surfaces, but researchers have tested common home and hospital materials. Compared to other surfaces like plastic and stainless steel, COVID-19 had a much lower survival rate (24 hours or less) on corrugated packaging.
Although the risk that our product would come into contact with the virus is low, the potential for the virus to survive on these surfaces is extremely unlikely. The typical inventory cycle for our products from production to use in our customers facilities is several days, which is much longer than current estimates of the virus’s lifespan on corrugated packaging surfaces.
Although there is no way to eliminate corona virus risk or make absolute guarantees on supply chains not being affected, we wish to assure our customers we have taken steps to mitigate risks to our supply chain from COVID-19 and maintain our ability to satisfy our customer’s needs given this global event.
We will continue to communicate any changes and updates as this situation evolves.
Dave Boles
President
Atlantic Packaging Products Ltd.
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About Atlantic Packaging Products, Ltd.
Established in 1945, Atlantic Packaging Products, Ltd., is the largest privately-owned integrated corrugated packaging company in Canada. Atlantic provides customers with a total packaging solution through its key business divisions, which include: Corrugated and Color Packaging, Recycled Paper Mills, Retail Packaging & Displays, Paper Bag Products, Supply &Inventory Management, and Recycling. Other Atlantic strategic partners include Mitchel-Lincoln based in Montreal, Quebec, Canada; York Container based in York, Pennsylvania; The Standfast Group based in Carol Stream, Illinois; Blackhawk Corrugated, based in Carol Stream, Illinois; SkyBox Packaging, based in Mansfield, Ohio; and Champion Container Corporation, based in Wood Dale, Illinois. For more information on Atlantic Packaging, please visit www.atlantic.ca.
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We firmly believe that the internet should be available and accessible to anyone, and are committed to providing a website that is accessible to the widest possible audience, regardless of circumstance and ability.
To fulfill this, we aim to adhere as strictly as possible to the World Wide Web Consortium’s (W3C) Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.1 (WCAG 2.1) at the AA level. These guidelines explain how to make web content accessible to people with a wide array of disabilities. Complying with those guidelines helps us ensure that the website is accessible to all people: blind people, people with motor impairments, visual impairment, cognitive disabilities, and more.
This website utilizes various technologies that are meant to make it as accessible as possible at all times. We utilize an accessibility interface that allows persons with specific disabilities to adjust the website’s UI (user interface) and design it to their personal needs.
Additionally, the website utilizes an AI-based application that runs in the background and optimizes its accessibility level constantly. This application remediates the website’s HTML, adapts Its functionality and behavior for screen-readers used by the blind users, and for keyboard functions used by individuals with motor impairments.
If you’ve found a malfunction or have ideas for improvement, we’ll be happy to hear from you. You can reach out to the website’s operators by using the following email
Our website implements the ARIA attributes (Accessible Rich Internet Applications) technique, alongside various different behavioral changes, to ensure blind users visiting with screen-readers are able to read, comprehend, and enjoy the website’s functions. As soon as a user with a screen-reader enters your site, they immediately receive a prompt to enter the Screen-Reader Profile so they can browse and operate your site effectively. Here’s how our website covers some of the most important screen-reader requirements, alongside console screenshots of code examples:
Screen-reader optimization: we run a background process that learns the website’s components from top to bottom, to ensure ongoing compliance even when updating the website. In this process, we provide screen-readers with meaningful data using the ARIA set of attributes. For example, we provide accurate form labels; descriptions for actionable icons (social media icons, search icons, cart icons, etc.); validation guidance for form inputs; element roles such as buttons, menus, modal dialogues (popups), and others. Additionally, the background process scans all the website’s images and provides an accurate and meaningful image-object-recognition-based description as an ALT (alternate text) tag for images that are not described. It will also extract texts that are embedded within the image, using an OCR (optical character recognition) technology. To turn on screen-reader adjustments at any time, users need only to press the Alt+1 keyboard combination. Screen-reader users also get automatic announcements to turn the Screen-reader mode on as soon as they enter the website.
These adjustments are compatible with all popular screen readers, including JAWS and NVDA.
Keyboard navigation optimization: The background process also adjusts the website’s HTML, and adds various behaviors using JavaScript code to make the website operable by the keyboard. This includes the ability to navigate the website using the Tab and Shift+Tab keys, operate dropdowns with the arrow keys, close them with Esc, trigger buttons and links using the Enter key, navigate between radio and checkbox elements using the arrow keys, and fill them in with the Spacebar or Enter key.Additionally, keyboard users will find quick-navigation and content-skip menus, available at any time by clicking Alt+1, or as the first elements of the site while navigating with the keyboard. The background process also handles triggered popups by moving the keyboard focus towards them as soon as they appear, and not allow the focus drift outside it.
Users can also use shortcuts such as “M” (menus), “H” (headings), “F” (forms), “B” (buttons), and “G” (graphics) to jump to specific elements.
We aim to support the widest array of browsers and assistive technologies as possible, so our users can choose the best fitting tools for them, with as few limitations as possible. Therefore, we have worked very hard to be able to support all major systems that comprise over 95% of the user market share including Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Apple Safari, Opera and Microsoft Edge, JAWS and NVDA (screen readers).
Despite our very best efforts to allow anybody to adjust the website to their needs. There may still be pages or sections that are not fully accessible, are in the process of becoming accessible, or are lacking an adequate technological solution to make them accessible. Still, we are continually improving our accessibility, adding, updating and improving its options and features, and developing and adopting new technologies. All this is meant to reach the optimal level of accessibility, following technological advancements. For any assistance, please reach out to