Game Changers
While every BW team member fuels our Change the Game strategy, some teams and individuals stand out above the rest. Those are the Game Changers. The ones who significantly alter outcomes through their creativity, resilience, influence, or expertise. They help shift perspectives, reimagine what’s possible, refuse the status quo, and orchestrate breakthrough moments that make transformation possible.
- How BW Papersystems’ Maximo Leyva turned market feedback into the FlexPro
In 2024, BW Papersystems released the highly successful FlexPro Flexo Folder Gluer, a machine that feeds flat sheets of corrugated board and automatically prints, scores, slots, folds, and glues them to produce finished boxes. As VP of Product Development for BWP’s Finishing Line, it was Maximo Leyva’s job to make sure the product was developed in alignment with both market and customer needs.
To learn more about how Maximo and the team did it, click HERE.
- Machine Solutions’ Vergil Sorg leads game changing machine shop improvements
Continuous improvement comes naturally to Vergil Sorg, who leads a team of 18 skilled machinists in Machine Solutions’ Flagstaff, AZ (US) facility. A machinist turned manufacturing engineer turned machine shop leader, Vergil spearheaded an initiative that overhauled the way his team works—from machining a large variety of parts that were fairly easy to produce to focusing primarily on a proprietary part that is central to Machine Solutions’ overall success—creating significant cost and time savings year over year.
To learn more about how Vergil integrates continuous improvement into his team’s work, click HERE.
- BW Packaging’s Pete Carlson supports people and performance in Brooklyn Park, Minnesota (US)
Pete Carlson, Chief Operating Officer of BW Packaging, consistently keeps people and performance in harmony by genuinely recognizing each individual’s gifts, while remaining focused on business goals. When he led the effort to bring the Brooklyn Park, MN (US) team members under one BW Packaging umbrella, he leaned into this innate ability, supporting leaders as they partnered to develop a more sustainable workflow to ensure future team success.
To read more about Pete’s contributions and approach to achieving people and performance in harmony, click HERE.
- BW Converting’s Patrick Keller is building thriving teams in its Converting Technologies segment
Over the past year, Patrick Keller, President of BW Converting’s Converting Technologies Segment, challenged his leaders to stretch beyond ten legacy structures to unify Converting Technologies into one global organization, aligning the segment’s strong talent with the markets they are best positioned to serve. This required tough decision making, ground-truth conversations and lots of hard work.
To read more about Patrick’s contributions and approach to building thriving teams, click HERE.
- BW Design Group is changing the game through its Project Stargate collaboration
More than 600 BW Design Group team members have been lending their expertise to Project Stargate, the massive AI data center campus under construction in Abilene, TX. Stargate, recently named North American Data Center Project of the Year, has helped lift the firm’s AI data center engagements and contributed meaningfully to Barry-Wehmiller’s record year of revenue.
To read more about the work of these Game Changers, click HERE.