Warren Hannon - Freedom of Information &
Experience

Facilitating process improvement in the newspaper industry for more than 40 years

Warren Hannon has been a player in the newspaper industry since 1959. His history goes back even further if you count the years that he had a paper route as a boy.

Warren Hannon knows how the newspaper product reaches its market, how the production process has changed, and the pressure to generate adverstising revenue. Mr. Hannon also is a staunch believer in freedom of information. His mission in this business to keep newspapers economically viable.

In his previous occupation, he had furnished large, custom-built newspaper packaging and labeling machinery to newspapers such as The New York Times, The Washington Post, Chicago Tribune, Newsday, and The Wall Street Journal, along with their distributors, and many additional smaller dailies and shopper publications. This equipment is at work for newspaper customers in Europe and the Pacific Rim.

Warren's experience has allowed him to work closely with his customers. As he analyzed newspaper production problems over the years, he came to an insight that changed his business philosophy. That insight was the recognition that the major bottleneck to all effective automation for packaging large sections and completes was the upstream feeding process.

No matter what kind of automated process you have in mind – newspapers or any other manufacturing, you need a reliable stream of product or the downstream operations are doomed to poor performance.

Armed with this insight and knowing how hard it is to feed bulky, insert-packed newspaper sections, he shifted his focus. Instead of concentrating on low-volume, long lead-time, one-of-a-kind systems, he began to focus all of his efforts on designing a modular hopper technology that could do what conventional hoppers could not: feed the big stuff.

Strong on reliability, simplicity and durability, the products which Warren Hannon has designed over the years provides the upstream reliability needed to support the performance of downstream operations.