Marden Edwards Journal

Turning unit simplifies wrapping operation for US pharmaceutical company

A major American pharmaceutical company has installed a number of overwrapping lines supplied by UK machinery manufacturer Marden Edwards Ltd and several of the lines are equipped with specially designed turning units, enabling them to handle both standard rectangular and fith panel cartons without any major adjustments or slowing down of the lines. Altogether the customer uses 13 different sizes of carton for the creams and lotions it produces, all of which are wrapped in groups of six for distribution. While grouping rectangular cartons into a uniform collation ready for wrapping is a simple task for the Marden Edwards BX 125 collator/overwrappers already supplied, the fith panel cartons require extra handling.

Marden Edwards manufactures and supplies new in-line buffer store

Marden Edwards has recently designed, manufactured and installed an automatic in line pack buffer storage system. The purpose of an in line buffer is to ensure that high line efficiencies are maintained if a downstream machine stops production.

Large format overwrapper for packaging multipacks of freezer bags

Marden Edwards Limited has recently supplied a large pack format overwrapper to a Canadian company which manufactures re-closable freezer bags. The multi pack format was demanded by the end user, a world famous American retailer. The presentation of the collated product was crucial because of the requirements of minimizing shelf space used but at the same time providing as large a retail display face as possible.