The supply of a new shrink wrapping line doubled the packing capacity for one of the largest corrugate board manufacturing plants in the UK, freeing up a bottleneck in their production facility. The company was so impressed that the same state of the art shrink wrapping machinery was rolled out across all 5 of their UK manufacturing sites.
The shrink wrapping process had become a bottleneck at the end of the die cutting line in production. The existing lines, supplied by Yorkshire Packaging Systems (YPS), had been there for over 10 years, and although they had performed as expected, the installation of a new die cutting line meant that higher output rates would need to be met.
The structured factory environment provided an additional challenge as the new equipment had to be manoeuvred into position around a tight production facility without disruption and installed into a very small footprint, no larger than that occupied by the previous line.
Having discussed their requirements, including necessary throughput, with the YPS team, a Mimi Uniblock 1123 sleeve wrapper, with double chamber shrink tunnel, was recommended and supplied by YPS.
The sleeve wrapper is 1.1m in width and therefore can comfortably process products at the larger end of the manufacturer’s range.
The shrink line can now process 14-16 packs per minute, freeing up the facility to run at optimum speed across all processes. The previous line could only run at 6-8 ppm.
The difficult install was achieved by the YPS engineering team in just a day and a half, keeping production disruption to a minimum.
The board manufacturer’s Operations Manager was highly impressed with YPS’ service. “As well as the machine that we needed, YPS supply high quality film and deliver an excellent ongoing service and support package. Their recycled content options give us a unique offering in a very competitive market,” he explained.
