Our 2,200 employees are coping with the demand to learn new skills. Tomorrow's customer is a difficult customer. At Tuthill, we're tooling up with information technology to help us understand what's required and to respond in a superior fashion. So, off into the unstable future we go. Tuthill CEO Tuthill Corp. As the world moves from atoms to bits, it's hard to find an industry more based on atoms than the forest products business.
Production is measured in tons of paper, bags, boxes and chemicals.
Every atom of the tree is used in the product or the manufacturing process. A couple of years ago our business managers began a concerted effort to develop innovative ways to add value to our commodity products to meet the needs of an increasingly discriminating and demanding marketplace. By 2000, meeting our customers' needs for individualized service will be just as much a matter of bits as atoms. There are so many unknowns and so many possibilities that we believe now is the time to start experimenting and learning. Then when we see a business opportunity, we will have built experience, done the analysis and be ready to move.