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Small cartoner brings huge benefits

Short-run orders at this distribution and packaging center are on the rise, and it was getting increasingly expensive to produce them. Semi-automatic cartoner to the rescue.

Twin Seal cartoner
Twin Seal cartoner

Increased production, reduced labor costs, and improved carton appearance were all achieved recently at CoLinx, LLC, when a versatile and small-footprint cartoning machine was installed.

Operating out of Crossville, TN, CoLinx is a distribution and logistics operation that also does packaging and shipping. The products being cartoned in this particular case are bearings used in the power transmission products industry. These come in a variety of sizes, they’re packed one per carton, and they can weigh as much as 35 lb each. Once cartoned, they get palletized and sent to a distributor.

For long runs of 1,000 pieces or more, CoLinx has automated systems in place, and this part of their packaging remains the same. But for runs that involve 70 parts or less, the firm had been relying on operators to manually load a bagged part into a carton and then put it through a strapper to close it. In addition to the cost involved with such an approach, says CoLinx General Supervisor Kris Henderson, the straps would occasionally break. Clearly there was room for improvement in their short runs. The solution swam into view in a meeting Henderson had with packaging equipment representative X-Cel Systems (Phone: 931/456-6889).

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