The importance of machinery for packaging manufacturers

It is not much use to have the best product on the market if the packaging is not adequate.

Nowadays many companies are involved in the manufacture of packaging. This is mainly because it is almost as important the container as the content. In other words, you can have the best cosmetics on the market but if the packaging in which you offer it to potential customers is not attractive, they will hardly choose it.

Packaging has ceased to be a mere container of what you want to sellto become an opportunity to be creative and bold, to try to attract the attention of potential consumers and be the hook on which they bite and buy. 

You only have to stroll along the shelves of any supermarket or enter any store to realize this: there is die-cut packaging that allows you to see inside the product, and there are those with striking shapes far from the conventional boxes.

Any packaging factory knows that packaging is more than just wrapping.

The origins of packaging clearly lie in the need to achieve protection and safety for products. To guarantee that what is manufactured arrives at its destination in optimum conditions, it was necessary to design a packaging that would allow this and at the same time avoid knocks, scratches or the influence of external agents that could diminish the quality of the product.

As time went by, other functionalities appeared, such as optimizing storage space thanks to a packaging that would allow the stacking of large quantities of products. For this reason, the packaging industry must respond to the need to produce large quantities of the same model of box or pack to store products..

Also, producing large quantities of the same packaging design or model allows optimizing costsand making the distribution logistics of these products more efficient. Achieving this through manual packaging manufacturing would be unfeasible and for this reason the industry is increasingly relying on robotized stations and assembly lines that make this possible.

Another element to be taken into account is that there is the option to customize the packaging, taking advantage of it for branding and displaying the company’s colors, attributes and corporate values.

As a packaging factory, what can DEIMA do for you?

DEIMA is an engineering company specialized in the manufacture of customized prototypes and we have a long experience and trajectory providing solutions to the packaging sector. Below, we will try to show you some illustrative examples of what kind of prototypes we can design for your packaging industry.

Any packaging industry needs to replicate the same wrapper design infinite times. To get the same design cut out repeatedly, die cutting machines can be a great option. Also for more sophisticated packaging designs that have transparencies to show the product.

Throughout the whole packaging manufacturing process it is essential to perform several quality controls to ensure that everything is as it should be. To automate and speed up this phase, from DEIMA we can design prototypes of machinery for the control and verification of the products. These designs will ensure that the quality of each packaging is optimal.

Depending on the packaging design, there may be some repetitive tasks such as folding, creasing or gluing that are essential to form the final format. These tasks, performed repeatedly thousands of times, besides being repetitive, can cause physical wear and tear on the people who perform them and, in some cases, can even lead to failures due to fatigue. To prevent this from happening, at DEIMA we can manufacture a cobot that takes care of these repetitive tasks so that you can allocate your human resources to other more valuable actions.

Without any doubt, machine vision is a great ally for the packaging sector, as it can be used to detect with great precision scratches or damage in packaging and thus prevent them from being put on the market in less than optimal conditions.

As you can see, at DEIMA we can help you get the ideal prototype machine for your packaging factory. We will take care of the design, manufacturing and commissioning of the machine so that you only have to worry about how the next packaging should be. Contact us without any obligation!