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On-par packaging
While Floratine provides outstanding turf management products to U.S. and international markets with diverse climates, the company wanted to improve its packaging to keep pace with product quality. The products contain organic components that can cause off-gassing. This off-gassing can make the containers bloat in warm temperatures or contract in cooler temperatures. Jugs with leaks and other defects can result. Floratine’s director of operations, Darryl King, recalls, “Packaging became tedious. We were tightening all the caps, using a hand-held pneumatic capper. If we didn’t get the cap tightened just right, it resulted in a phone call from an unhappy customer with a leaky or bloated jug. We knew it was time to call in the packaging experts to resolve this dilemma.” The triple-threat packaging team they called in consisted of cap supplier TricorBraun, cap liner supplier Performance Systematix, Inc., and sealing equipment supplier Enercon Industries CorpSealing the deal
Floratine first tested the induction sealer during an on-site demonstration by Enercon’s local representative, George Richardson of PMMR, Inc . (901/466-5191). Floratine staffers also visited Enercon’s headquarters to take advantage of their free lab testing. And they were able to see the Enercon Super Seal™ induction sealer in action on a commercial packaging line at Riceland Foods in Stuttgart, AR. Floratine even was permitted to test some of their own jugs on the Riceland sealing line.King says, “All of the supplier companies were extremely helpful in providing specs for the machine, caps, liners, and vents. But we also conducted our own independent tests to assure that we had the right caps, vented liners, vent placement, drive belt speed, and heat settings. The true test was when my 300-pound co-worker took off the cap and stood on the bottle with only the sealed liner holding the product. The jug didn’t burst.”
The Super Seal system creates a hermetic seal to provide leak-proof protection and tamper-evidence. When the capped jugs enter the sealer’s electromagnetic current, the foil of the inner seal generates electrical resistance, heats the Airfoil vented liner, and bonds the seal. Floratine uses the “All-In-One” Enercon sealing head, which provides the flexibility to shift the induction sealer between their two packaging lines without having to change the sealing head.
King comments, “People pay greens fees, not brown fees. Superintendents and greenskeepers rely on our products to keep their turf in top condition. In turn, we rely on premium packaging equipment to protect our premium products. About 99 percent of our packaging problems have been solved by our new induction seal capping system.”
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