After installing a new RoRo StretchPack door packaging line to replace a heat shrink oven, Skantrae has doubled its packaging capacity. Overtime has been eliminated, while both the working environment and packaging quality have been improved.
Skantrae is a Dutch distributor that recent years has had a growth in sales while it also has taken over some operations from a sister company. Annual growth in further processing of custom doors on 30-40% led to a capacity problem on the heat shrink packaging line.
That was why operations manager Ruud Willemsen and production manager Peter Klomp, who are responsible for the packaging line, started up a project to find a way of optimizing the packaging. Peter Klomp tells: “At that time we could only pack 400 to 500 doors each day using the heat shrink tunnel, which was insufficient. We needed to pack about 800-900 doors each day, so capacity was the main reason why we were searching for a new packaging solution”.
Ruud Williemsen continues: “Actually, we were looking for a new heat shrink oven. Then we came across the RoRo StretchPack packaging solution from Tentoma, which we immediately could see was suitable for door packaging. We liked the idea of stretching the film to fit the door instead of applying too much film which we afterwards need to put through a heat shrink tunnel”.
Seven months after installation, Skantrae is ready to draw some conclusions from the investment in the new RoRo StretchPack door packaging line. Ruud Willemsen says, “I would estimate that the packaging output has increased by at least 50 to 60% even with less labour. The old line did 60 doors per hour, and the new line packs for now 90 doors per hour, and we are still increasing that number. Now we do not have to work overtime in the evening and at the weekend anymore when we need to pack more than five hundred doors per day.”
