Case Packing System Helps Meet Supermarket Demand

In a bid to improve in-store shelf replenishment efficiencies major supermarket chains are demanding ever more shelf-ready packaging from their suppliers.

In a bid to improve in-store shelf replenishment efficiencies major supermarket chains are demanding ever more shelf-ready packaging from their suppliers.

One manufacturer of recycled products, suppliers of own label refuse sacks to a retailer has responded to its customer's challenge with a fully integrated case-packing system from Partners in Packaging (PiP).

Two MAF Combimatic case packers, supplied and installed by PiP in March 2006, pack rolls of 60-litre, 80-litre and 100-litre sacks in to U-cut cartons at rates of up to 60 rolls per minute.

The servo-driven Combimatic case packers are claimed to accommodate the three sizes of cartons required and the manufacturing plant has already seen significant improvements in output, said PiP.

Andy Bednall, the comapny's site manager, said: "The change to shelf-ready packaging is customer driven and to meet time scales we initially operated existing equipment at slower speeds and manually filled the cartons.

But thanks to Partners in Packaging we have met not only our customer demands for CDU (consumer display units) packs but also our own requirements for a flexible, fast and cost efficient system, which eliminated manual packing.

He added: "This latest investment shows the level of the company's continuing commitment to health and safety and collectively working with the health and safety executive and its employees.

PiP's installation uses carton blanks as opposed to the more expensive pre-glued RSC cases, a method which addressed the request for a system that would help alleviate increased cartonboard costs caused by the move from bulk supply to multiple shelf-ready packs.

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