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%.

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%.

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.