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A splice in time saves dimes

At Odom’s Tennessee Pride, automatic film splicing systems are being added to flow wrapping equipment to boost productivity and reduce film waste.

This automatic splicing system has been a big help not only in reducing film waste but also in making Odom’s Tennessee Pride more operationally efficient.
This automatic splicing system has been a big help not only in reducing film waste but also in making Odom’s Tennessee Pride more operationally efficient.

“When you’re doing 180 sandwiches/min, you go through some film.”


With that simple statement, Stephen Cerney of Odom’s Tennessee Pride captures the motivation behind that firm’s recent installations of three automatic film-splicing systems. Supplied by Butler Automatic, the splicing units are used on three flow wrappers that Odom’s uses to package the popular sausage- or chicken-based sandwiches that it sells nationwide either frozen or refrigerated. The flow wrappers come from Campbell Wrapper Corp.. Each flow wrapper has two film spindles.


“With the splicer in place, we don’t have to stop the flow wrapper when it’s time to change rolls,” says Cerney. “We gain about an hour of production per shift. It varies from product to product, but that’s a good average.”

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