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News Release from: Orion Packaging Systems (UK) | Subject: Orbital stretchwrapping machines
Edited by the Manufacturingtalk Editorial
Team on 06 October 2006
Stretchwrapping machine ousts hand work
Work surfaces manufacturer has purchased another packing machine to further remove more labour-intensive manual shrink wrapping operations.
One of the UK's leading manufacturers of work surfaces has been so delighted with their investment in state of the art stretchwrapping technology from Herefordshire-based Orion Packaging Systems that they have purchased another machine within just months of the first one Sheridan Fabrications, of Normanton near Wakefield, manufacturers and supplies a large range of wood, granite, quartz and composite worktops which are destined for homes, hotels and restaurants across the UK
This article was originally published on Manufacturingtalk on 21 Aug 2006 at 8.00am (UK)
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The pieces of worktop - an average of 3m in length but sometimes much longer - need to be protected from the elements and their environment on their journey to sales outlets and the company had previously been using a process of shrink wrapping by hand to achieve this.
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"The manual shrink wrapping involved members of staff wrapping the worktops by hand using a heat gun and shrink wrap.
However, not only was this a very slow and labour-intensive process, but wrapping consistency was variable and there were significant potential health and safety implications for our staff from the presence of hot equipment and gas canisters, not to mention the amount of manual handling involved." He said: "Quite simply, the process did not deliver either the level of protection or the quality image we wanted to portray as a company, and we therefore underwent a radical rethink of how we approached the wrapping issue." He continued: "We needed a machine which was fast, reliable, durable economical and versatile enough to cope with differing widths and lengths of product and still produce the same quality of wrapping regardless.
When we spoke to Orion it was clear they understood our needs and could offer what we needed." The machine supplied by Orion was a HRW90 and 125-S orbital wrapping machine, which conveys the product lengthways through a wrapping arch where wrap is automatically applied before the product is conveyed out again ready for shipping.
Speake added: "We knew immediately the Orion product was installed that we had made the right choice.
The whole process was so much smoother and the wrapping was exactly what we wanted every time.
Even since then the demand on the machine has grown so much that we have purchased a second orbital wrapper from Orion".
"We ship up to 200 pieces per order so the machines are in constant action but they have to date proved highly reliable and efficient.
They are easy to use and our health and safety worries have been completely allayed." Walter Williams, managing director of Orion Packaging Systems (UK) , added: "Wrapping heavy, awkward-to-handle goods is an ideal application for orbital wrappers which can provide guaranteed quality and fast throughput while removing the potential dangers of manual wrapping.
We're obviously delighted that Sheridan has returned to us already and look forward to a long and successful partnership with them.".
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