May 2023

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Thank you to everyone who participated in the Every Voice Matters cultural assessment. More than 6,700 team members across 32 countries made their voices heard! We are deeply grateful that you shared what is great about working at BW as well as thoughtful and constructive feedback about the challenges you face. For the first time in our history, we now have an objective cultural baseline to guide us.

Earlier this month we released high-level findings that shared what we're doing well, what we can improve and more. To view those findings and to download them in your native language, click HERE. And, continue watching your inbox or bulletin boards for information and your platform’s/division’s findings. Thanks again!

BARRY-WEHMILLER & PLATFORM NEWS

BW CORPORATE

Innovation Week connects and inspires BW innovation leaders on collective innovation journey

Last month, the third annual BW Innovation Week took took place with goals to advance and accelerate BW’s innovation best practices and to fortify innovation culture. BW President Kyle Chapman kicked off the virtual, enterprise-wise event with an overview of BW’s innovation journey. He added that BW's people-centric focus, global footprint and balanced markets and businesses have played key roles in our successes so far, but the Innovation Excellence Playbook, with its product-line focus and record levels of research and development investment, will pave the way for the future.

If you have any questions about Innovation Week, our innovation journey or the Innovation Excellence Playbook, please reach out to your leader.

BW ENGINEERING CONSULTING

BW Design Group wraps-up phase one of Coca-Cola warehouse construction

In 2017, Coca-Cola Refreshments exited the wholesale distribution business in North America, altering major bottler territories. BW Design Group (DG) worked with many of those bottlers affected on supply chain planning, warehouse logistics, facility assessments and more. One bottler's 1960s era buildings, located on a 9-acre parcel territory in Buffalo, NY (US), were well past useful life but ideally located for western NY trucking operations. With a planning study, DG found costs and logistics favored staying on the current property rather than building elsewhere. In 2021, DG began a two-phase engineering and construction management program to replace the current warehouse with a new one. Phase one is scheduled to be completed this month.

BW FORSYTH PARTNERS

BW reaches 129 acquisitions with Engle Martin’s acquisition of EIMC

Engle Martin (EM), an independent loss adjustment and claims management leader in BW Forsyth Partners’ Cor Partners family

of companies, has acquired EIMC, BW's 129th acquisition. EIMC is a global provider of ocean marine, risk management, claims investigation and subrogation services. The Jersey City, NJ (US) and London, England based organization expands EM's global footprint and diversifies its portfolio by adding a full suite of ocean marine services.

BW PACKAGING

Synerlink names new CEO and President

BW Packaging’s Synerlink, a leader of filling equipment for rigid packaging in the dairy and food markets, has appointed Jean-Félix Lesueur, to serve as President and CEO. Jean-Félix brings more than 30 years of packaging industry experience to Synerlink. In his role, Jean-Félix will ensure Synerlink continues its tradition of caring for customers and providing high-performance, innovative packaging solutions that meet unique market needs, while also improving the efficiency and sustainability of Synerlink’s operations.

FROM THE AIRWAVES

"Better Work. Better World." with Arianna Fazzi of PCMC/BW Converting Solutions

BW's video series, Better Work. Better World., is designed to help our recruiting efforts while shining a light on team members throughout the global BW organization. In the third installment, you'll learn about Marketing and Communications Specialist Arianna Fazzi and how her time working at our Lucca, Italy facility has been special because of the people and how a sense of family also extends to PCMC’s and BW Converting’s customers.

Please share this and future installments on LinkedIn to show the breadth of talent and opportunity inside BW!

SHINE A LIGHT ON OUR TEAM MEMBERS

Blog post: The premium fuel in the engine of business

In a talk given by BW Chairman and CEO Bob Chapman and President Kyle Chapman to a group of St. Louis, MO (US) businesses on family businesses and family business transition, Kyle said "we're going to show that you can operate with people and performance in total harmony." You don’t have to sacrifice economic value creation in order to care for those you have the privilege to lead. It’s not a one or the other proposition. Think of the business model as the engine and the culture as your premium fuel. We call it people and performance in harmony.

Shine the Light Award: Callie Gulley, BW-Corporate

Congratulations to Callie Gulley of BW in St. Louis, MO (US) for receiving a Shine the Light award for Driving Results. Mary Rudder, her nominator, said "when she is leading the coordination of the many and often-moving parts of a complicated project, I have complete peace of mind! Her ability to drive results was incredibly evident during her masterful juggling of the components to help launch the Shine program. She demonstrated her remarkable ability to keep her eye on all of the timelines and competing priorities while making sure our team and the clients had what they needed to get ready for launch." Nice job, Callie!

Shine the Light Award: Seth Lambrich, Design Group-St. Louis

Congratulations to Seth Lambrich, Design Group in St. Louis, MO (US) for for receiving a Shine the Light award for Communicates Effectively. "In a recent situation involving benefit eligibility for a division not accustom to contract hires, there were several details the division was uncertain of. We knew this was a process Seth knew well and could guide us through his best practices to ensure compliance and consistency," said nominator Stacey Dyer. "Seth swiftly offered details to his process, where his responsibilities lie, how to communicate with team members and, most importantly, when communication must take place." Amazing work, Seth!

Shine the Light Award: Dan Sherbondy, PSA-Akron

Congratulations to Dan Sherbondy of PSA in Akron, OH (US) for receiving a Shine the Light award for Customer Focus. Nominator John Toth said in "our recent project with Formulated Solutions for a filler monoblock, we received many praises from the customer on Dan's communication through the project up to the FAT [factory acceptance test]. The customer even brought another project to our sales team to quote and a large part of them coming back is because of the confid-ence that Dan instilled with them through his project leadership." Way to go, Dan!

Shine the Light Award: Nate Adler, PSA-Akron

Congratulations to Nate Adler of PSA in Akron, OH (US) for receiving a Shine the Light award for Customer Focus. "I admire and appreciate Nate’s can-do attitude and willingness to step up for his team members, our organization and our customers," said nominator Rigo Leon. "Recently, a customer needed a full seaming turret replacement on their Angelus 181S seamer quickly. Nate took on the challenge by traveling out-of-state for two weeks to the site to support our field service team. With limited onsite support, without cranes or fixtures, he successfully tore down and rebuilt machine in record time, AND trained and provided hands-on experience our Field Service Reps on this model." Incredible job, Nate!

The BW, Design Group and PSA locations above are part of the Shine the Light Award pilot. To read more about the Shine the Light Award and to nominate someone, go HERE!

High Five Recognition: Miranda Rapoza, Design Group-Portland

Congratulations to Miranda Rapoza of Design Group in Portland, OR (US) for receiving a High Five award. Rich Brindos, her nominator, said she "took the extra effort to backfill numerous issues into a new Smartsheet that is now used to track issues at Intel with new Commissioning Software. We now have months of past data in the system that will help with total issue counts and closure status. This is a much improved system." Yay, Miranda!

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High Five Recognition: Justin Prachar, Design Group-Austin

Congratulations to Justin Prachar of Design Group in Austin, TX (US) for receiving a High Five award. His nominator and colleagues said "Justin's dedication to improving his skills and delivering for clients has been a critical part of project success" and he "stepped up when needed to assisted the client and lead his teammates during a crunch time when leading is most difficult and crucial." Way to go, Justin!

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High Five Recognition: Chad Hamm, Design Group-Bellingham

Congratulations to Chad Hamm of Design Group in Bellingham, WA (US) for receiving a High Five award. Anuj Jain, his nominator, said he "has always been willing to help with whatever is asked by the Hedgehog project team. He spent over 9 months dedicated to it. Since September he's moved onto other projects, yet he will still help with Hedgehog deliverables. I want to take this opportunity to appreciate all the help he has provided and continues to provide." Nice work, Chad!

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High Five Recognition: Victor Perez, Design Group-Pasadena

Congratulations to Victor Perez of Design Group in Pasadena, CA (US) for receiving a High Five award. Victor, a Project Engineer, was presented the award by his nominator, Casey Tarrab, at a team Lunch & Learn. Casey said Victor "leads by example, showing that there is no task he considers outside his scope. From leading technical meetings to cleaning up exploded beer cans during commissioning, he is always there to support his team." Congrats, Victor!

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Earlier this month, the Corporate People Team in St. Louis, MO (US) participated, both in-person and virtually, in an Ultimate Rock, Paper, Scissors Showdown. Team members battled each other in this team building event until one winner was proclaimed: Rowdy Rowdy Rob McGraw. Congratulations, Rob! For more photos, click HERE.

BUSINESS PROFILE: BW PACKAGING

BW Packaging (BWP), headquartered in St. Louis, MO (US), is BW's global team of packaging professionals and is comprised of

five divisions–Accraply, BW Flexible Systems, BW Integrated Systems, Pneumatic Scale Angelus, and Synerlink. BWP's offerings include complete packaging lines, flexible packaging equipment, filling/sealing/seaming & capping equipment, labeling & sleeving equipment, end-of-line equipment & systems integration and more. Carol O'Neill (right) serves as Group President of Packaging and leads over 2,500 team members in the United States, Australia, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, China, France, Germany, Hong Kong, India, Italy, Malaysia, Mexico, the Netherlands, Philippines, Spain, Switzerland, Taiwan, United Arab Emirates and the United Kingdom. For more, check out their website, LinkedIn and YouTube pages.

NEWS YOU CAN USE

DID YOU KNOW?

Did you know there are 812 job openings across the organization?

Are you ready for a change or to take the next step in your career? Is there an open role that might be a good fit for your skills? Or do you know someone who might be interested in joining our great organization?

There are 812 open roles worldwide. Some BW companies even offer incentives to those who recommend candidates who are hired. For info, click HERE. Search open positions HERE.

FOR US-BASED TEAM MEMBERS

Don't forget to schedule your preventive screenings NOW!

Preventive health screenings can be very effective at providing insights about early disease risk so you can take proactive steps with your doctor to prevent chronic illnesses. US-based team members, refer to the email or postcard received at home to see which screenings you should consider. Reach out to bwwellbeing@barry-wehmiller.com with any questions.

FOR US- AND CANADA-BASED TEAM MEMBERS

Dive in and register today for the June Movement Challenge!

Attention US- and Canada-based team members (and spouses)! Welcome warmer weather with us by surfing over to MoveSpring and joining your division's or location's June Movement Challenge team by June 4. And don't forget to sync your fitness device to get those movement activities recorded! For more information about MoveSpring, including how to convert your activities into steps and more, visit bwwellbeing.com.

NEW TECH TIP

Check out these easy-to-remember keyboard shortcuts!

Keyboard shortcuts are great for performing everyday tasks quickly. If you’re a keyboard shortcut novice, here’s a sampling of some of the more useful ones:

- Crtl + C: Copy

- Ctrl + X: Cut

- Crtl + V: Paste

- Crtl + Z: Undo last action

- Alt + Tab: Cycle through open programs

- Windows + E: Open File Explorer

- Windows + I: Open Windows Settings

- F5: Refresh the active window

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