Snell - Machinery Guide

Machinery Guide

Machinery can often be viewed as a complex and difficult area to understand. Having a better understanding of how these machines work and their impact on your business can be incredibly beneficial.

Automating your Packaging operations

In today's market there is even more of a demand than ever to make your manufacturing and packaging processes as cost-effective as possible. To achieve this, companies are looking at machines to automate their packaging and end-of-line processing.
The use of machines means not only more gains in efficiencies but also less chance of damage occurring to your loads during transportation and a better-looking product being delivered out to your customers.

Benefits of packaging machines
Packaging machines have a number of important advantages over packaging by hand:

Consistent Application: Tape, strapping or stretch film is applied consistently and uniformly every time.

Professional Image: Cartons and loads secured by machine have a clean, professional look as applying tape, strapping or stretch film by hand can leave an uneven or untidy finish. The presentation of your cartons and pallets is important as it says something to the customer about the standards of your business.

Improved Product Protection: Product can be crushed or allowed to shift during transport if strapping or wrap is applied incorrectly by hand. Knowing what is required to keep your load stable during shipping, and while it is on your customer's floor, is essential in setting strapping and stretch wrapping specifications for your employees to follow. The responsibility of meeting minimum tension requirements is left up to the employee doing the final packaging, fatigue, ignorance, lack of training or motivation can affect the standard to which this is done.

Employee Safety: Applying tape, strapping or stretch film by hand often involves a lot of bending and repetitive movement. This is a common source of back, sprain and repetitive motion injuries when performed incorrectly.

Cost Savings: Machines can be set to secure loads using the least amount of packaging material required to safely do so. Wrapping a load by hand, for example, may involve unnecessary amounts of it being used, which adds to both wasted film and cost. Furthermore, an expensive hidden cost of hand wrapping is the cost of all the rolls of stretch film that are unusable because they have been damaged when thrown to the ground or left lying around.

Time Savings: There are obvious productivity gains from faster packaging and securing of goods, as well as operational advantages in freeing employees to perform other tasks while the machines are at work.

Rental Programme

There is always a capital expense involved with purchasing machines but to make this easy, Snell has designed a rental programme to allow you to obtain the machinery you require without the upfront capital expenditure.

A rental programme can be tailor-made to your requirements, either for 24-month or 36-month periods or a time frame to suit you. Payments are made on a monthly basis.

There is a select range of machinery available on the Snell Rental Programme.

Strapping Machines
Carton Sealing Machines
Pallet Wrapping Machines

Talk to your Account Manager or call our Customer Services Team to discuss your requirements and find our current list of machines available for rent.

Machinery Trials

Installation of the machinery, comprehensive training and follow-up maintenance and servicing can all be arranged by Snell.
Should the need arise, we can supply a full range of replacement parts for any packaging machine you purchase or rent from us.

Expert technicians are on hand to replace any parts and perform repairs so you can have your machine up and running as quickly as possible.

Installation, Training, Maintenance & Servicing