The pick of the pack

Redpack’s continuous improvement of their brand-leading packaging machines has impressed apple packers everywhere. Apple growers are using the latest environmentally- friendly packaging and cutting-edge packaging machinery. They have been benefiting from tray-less packaging for some time now, thanks to Redpack’s innovative, soft-packaging machinery. The result has been more, flexible, more sustainable and more efficient packaging lines, as Philip Yorke reports.

Today it is well known that Tray-less packaging offers a wide range of benefits for both the growers and packaging companies alike. RedPack machinery offers customers the benefit of using far less packaging material, as the packaging is smaller, lighter, safer and environmentally much friendlier. Redpack have ensured that the continuous development of their machines means that they are not only highly efficient and reliable, but also are able to tighten packs even further, thus saving yet more packaging material.

Apples are notoriously prone to damage and bruising, so they must be handled very carefully. RedPack’s Soft Packaging” do just that. The company initially developed its P325E-FI tray-less apple flow-wrapping machines by working closely with apple packers to ensure that they developed the best possible solutions. The “Frictionless Infeed” has been specifically designed to pack apples at relatively high speeds of up to 70 ppm for a 6 pack, with the elimination of bruising. The finished pack presentation is of the highest quality and can carry retailers’ brand image to provide even greater eye-appeal to the consumer.

New European HQ Opens

Redpack Packaging Machinery has just announced the official opening of their large, purpose-built, European headquarters. Based in Norfolk in the UK, here the company designs and manufactures Flow Wrapping and other diverse, tailor-made Packaging Machinery and equipment. Redpack told SPN, “Our markets include industries such as fresh produce, pharmaceuticals, snack foods, household products, bakery, greeting cards, gifts and toys, etc. With a brand stretching back over 35 years, our flow-wrapping designs follow tried and tested principles. However, each application brings its own unique requirements and specifications for highly efficient, custom-designed machinery” . Redpack were founded in 1977 and initially designed and produced the “Pacer” flow-wrapping machine, which quickly became renowned for its durability and ease of use. Testimony to this is that many of the machines produced at that time are still in use today. In the mid-1990s the company’s “P-series” machines were introduced to the market for the first time, replacing its well-established Pacer series. Significant investment in R&D in the late 2000s and early 2010s has brought about their latest “NTS” Top Seal Flow Wrappers that are leading the field today.

“ With a brand stretching back over 35 years, our flow-wrapping designs follow tried and tested principles ”