When we heard the news yesterday, everyone was just devastated. He made a huge impact at Pearl River in a short time — 5 1/2 years.

When we heard the news yesterday, everyone was just devastated. He made a huge impact at Pearl River in a short time — 5 1/2 years.

A lot of gravure presses are wider, so it's very difficult when you want to get into special patterns. The other thing with gravure is that you always had to run larger quantities. We took what we learned in the short-run flexible packaging market and we're doing the lamination in-line. With coaters that are in-line too, it's all happening in one pass.

We expect the Pearl River region to be a huge area for inbound cost savings. In addition, the new location sets the stage for five years from now when China is completely liberalized and we can ship directly inside the country.

I was upset when I heard the news, but you can't be mad because I have a bunch of great guys in front of me on the receiving corps. I'm sitting back and observing to see how things are out there in the regular season. I did notice that (the pace) picked up a little bit from the preseason.

Physically, having yesterday completely off was huge. We had a light workout today and we're ready to go.