Episode Four, of Nine episodes in our Automation Mini-Series!
The Box Maker and Box Liner
For those who like origami, you will appreciate that every box we pack into arrives to site as a flat lifeless piece of cardboard! It has two ends that are loaded into the box maker and after some magic a box emerges, just like a paper swan..
Each of the 5 units we have onsite is capable of assembling 34 boxes per minute to keep the sheds appetite for boxes fed!
Assembled boxes are delivered to have their small but mighty label applied (refer to episode three), via the license plate printer, before heading to one of the two Niverplast Speediplast for a polyliner to be inserted into the box.
Each Speediplast is capable of lining up to 24 cases per minute, and due to its double rotating magazine, it never needs to stop to be reloaded with bags! This means the flow of boxes is rarely halted through the shift, and just runs like clock work! Anyone who has tried to separate the plastic fruit bags at the supermarket will know how frustrating this simple task can be, these units make it a breeze.
Once the box is assembled, lined and has its license plate on, its off on the 100m roller coaster ride on the conveyer to the packhouse to be filled! Just like that!
