Shrink bundler cuts costs, pumps up productivity

Contract packer installs in-line flight bar bundler to simplify secondary packing of aerosol products.

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I.K.I. Manufacturing is a contract packager that operates two Wisconsin plants, one in Edgerton and one in Stoughton. The two facilities run a combined total of eight packaging lines, specializing in difficult-to-handle aerosol-packed products such as engine starting fluid, hair dyes, personal care products, household cleaning products, insecticides, and veterinary products.

I.K.I. packages an aerosol body spray product for one of its customers (customer identity is considered proprietary). The individually packed sprays in 3.4-oz aerosol can fill weights then are multi-packed for shipping. Until recently, I.K.I. was manually packing six-counts of the body spray into chipboard boxes, then loading the boxes into 12-pack and 48-pack RSC shipping cartons. But the contract packer was dissatisfied with the efficiency of this system. It was labor-intensive and slow.

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