Secure packaging solution
In the past, A1 Towbars experienced problems with packaging its awkward shaped product. Each shipment contains loose parts capable of piercing the packaging, and the product occasionally reached the recipient damaged or with parts missing in transit.
Solving this issue, Aetna UK’s Robopac Compacta SPR now plays an integral part in A1 Towbars’ success. Individual components are manually picked and placed on a cardboard bed, they then travel along a roller feed into the wrapping machine where they are automatically secured to the bed by stretch wrapping. The ends of the cardboard are folded and the components are placed, as a whole, in a box for final dispatch.
“Not only has the Robopac Compacta SPR given us a secure packaging solution, it also affords us economy of scale,” says A1 Towbars chief executive, Mark Terry. “The machine has reduced our need to stock a range of 39 different sized boxes; we now need only 9 different sizes.”
