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Think Like A Technologist The Bemis plant in Terre Haute is the single largest producer of plastic bags and trash bags in North America. They produce bags for a wide range of companies including, Tylenol, Rural King, Kroger, and the jolly Green Giant. They have a truly massive facility inside of which is a collection of older more antique equipment in which they wage a constant battle to keep running smoothly and efficiently. It also contains in a newer area some of the fastest most state-of-the-art equipment yet in production. They can print up to eight colors on a bag creating surprisingly elaborate designs, and they do this at a speed of up to 800 feet per minute. Even their older printing machines can print up to 600 feet per minute. They run multiple extrusion lines producing the plastic on which they do the printing. However, before they can do any of this they have to take the raw material from being shipped in to converting it into film and preparing it for whatever processes and applications it is meant for. Bemis uses and oil based polyethylene resin pellet to produce its plastic film. They receive these pellets by train. They generally handle fifteen train cars full of these pellets each week. We were not in