February 28, 2018
The customer’s pallet wrapper and top sheet applicator were a bottleneck for their operation and in peak season this was a limiting factor to the production output. Due to the fact they moved in to an old building in the 1990’s and had already outgrown it, they were looking for any solutions that could either free up space or improve throughput.
February 28, 2018
The client is a market leader in Australia in the animal feed sector. They are an Xforce™ fiber-reinforced film Customer since its launch in February 2018. They pack animal feed for various livestock animals into 20-25kg polyethylene bags, loading them on to a pallet, with each pallet weighing up to 1200kg. They distribute anywhere between 100—300 pallets per day, to farms around Australia.
February 28, 2018
This customer is France’s leading food wholesaler. They supply approximately 338,000 catering businesses and 83,000 independent retailers. It operates from 132 branches throughout France and operates a national delivery service. In order to replenish its business, they pick and palletize mixed loads for distribution to its 132 branches. Picked orders are palletized and stretch wrapped in order to ensure safe delivery of product. Annually, the customer distributes over 1,000,000 pallets in this way. A recent initiative reduced total stretch film consumption from 315 tons p.a. to 130 tons p.a. yielding a film saving of 59%.
February 28, 2018
A large Japan-based ambient food manufacturer supplying product into the fast moving consumer goods (fmcg) supply chain palletises and stretch wraps product specific pallets using an automatic stretch wrapper: 94,000 pallet loads of product are manufactured annually. Utilising a new improved film the company increased the pre-stretch ratio of the machine to reduce film consumption from 22.8 tonnes p.a. to 13.1 tonnes p.a. yielding a film saving of 43%.
February 28, 2018
A large International drinks manufacturer produces around 450,000 pallets of product a year from its 3 Chile manufacturing operations and in order to cope with such high volumes of throughput it uses fully automated wrapping machines at each of its sites.
