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Running Head: PRESTON PLANT TURNAROUND. 1
Preston Plant Turnaround.
Name of the Student.
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PRESTON PLANT TURNAROUND. 2
Introduction.
Preston plant is a production company which is located in Preston Vancouver and
they are dealers in mainly in precision coated papers that were used for printing purposes.
The company used state of the art coating machines which gave them room for the precise
coating to be applied to be bought in rolls of paper and once they were coated the rolls were
cut into standardized sizes. The biggest clients of the company were Hewlett Packard who
was the first to inform the company the problem they had encountered with paper curling
under humid conditions, a problem which the company itself had not yet noticed. They had
also complained about the quality of the products the company was producing and hence
making it lose a big project which they were to be given by Hewlett-Packard. This resulted in
them losing millions and hence contributing largely to the loses which were made by the
company in that particular year.
Discussion.
Any business ventures must be faced by challenges and the success of a particular
business is determined by how the management is able to curb the challenges that they face
as well as the attitude they have towards the same Liu & Stenin. (2016). The Preston plant
faced several challenges which almost resulted in their close down. Some of the challenges
are the fact that they were focused more on the clients forgetting the issue of problem-
solving. This is clearly seen when the COO stated that the production monitoring was done to
please the client and not for problem-solving. This resulted in them not noticing that the
products they were producing had a problem.
The second challenge was the fact that the managers did not pay attention to details
and hence they were not able to see the problem behind the data which was presented to them
during meetings. Another challenge that was faced by the organization was the fact that they

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Running Head: PRESTON PLANT TURNAROUND. Preston Plant Turnaround. Name of the Student. Name of the affiliated institution. 1 PRESTON PLANT TURNAROUND. 2 Introduction. Preston plant is a production company which is located in Preston Vancouver and they are dealers in mainly in precision coated papers that were used for printing purposes. The company used state of the art coating machines which gave them room for the precise coating to be applied to be bought in rolls of paper and once they were coated the rolls were cut into standardized sizes. The biggest clients of the company were Hewlett Packard who was the first to inform the company the problem they had encountered with paper curling under humid conditions, a problem which the company itself had not yet noticed. They had also complained about the quality of the products the company was producing and hence making it lose a big project which they were to be given by Hewlett-Packard. This resulted in them losing millions and hence contributing largely to the loses which were made by the company in that particular year. Discussion. Any business ventures must be faced by challenges and the success of a particular business is determined by how the management is able to curb the challenges that they face as well as the attitude they have towards the same Liu & Stenin. (2016). The Preston plant faced several challenges which almost resulted in their close down. Some of the challenges are the fact that they were focused mor ...
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