Finishing
Cut and crease
Die cutting and creasing departments within the Benson Group are equipped for cutting folding box board. Departments also offer the facility of embossing cartons and can pre-make-ready off-line to keep costs down and machine productivity high.
The Group is continually looking to stay ahead of customer demand, as demonstrated by regular installations of finishing equipment. One of the Group's North East operations recently installed an innovative piece of die-cutting and creasing equipment designed by The Bobst Group. The Spanthera 106 LER dual purpose blanking and sheeting machine was the first of its kind in the UK. This new generation of machine has added greater speed and flexibility to a modern Die-Cutting and Creasing Department, enabling even faster turnaround of product produced to the quality that customers demand.
Window patching
Window patching machinery is especially popular in the food sector, and Benson Group carries a range of machines for the task, many of which are capable of running two lanes of cartons for speed and efficiency. Equipment is fitted with missing window detection units in order to guarantee quality of finished, delivered product.
Pick and place
Specialist equipment is employed to incorporate rigid, three sided plastic windows into packaging product. The pack design offers higher visibility of the product, but requires a more durable material to be inserted and held in place within the cardboard surround. Pick and place windows are utilised across a variety of product sectors.
Gluing
Gluing machines allow sites to produce a variety of styles including straight line, crash lock, four corner, six corner, as well as integral fitments. Latest packing products include a sampler device so that samples can be removed from every outer. Machines are also equipped with full bar code and glue detection system linked to the gluers own ejection system. To aid speedy delivery the company uses automated case erectors to supply made up cases to the high speed production units.
Environmental issues have to be at the top of the agenda for the customer and for the packaging producer. At Benson Group we believe that cartonboard represents the most environmentally friendly form of packaging available for both food and pharmaceutical product.
