While automated gluing offers nearly unlimited uses in marketing applications, the packaging business has found another great way of facilitating the production process with automated solutions.
Recently we have covered the introduction of glue plotters into the POS Display production workflow. In this article, we would like to highlight these toolsets in manufacturing of packaging solutions in industries such as automotive, furniture and luxury goods production. Automated gluing machines offer here unparalleled advantages in terms of speed, precision, and cost-effectiveness, especially when the production involves highly customized packaging elements.
Basic Packaging vs Automotive & Furniture Packaging
Manufacturing American boxes or similar rudimentary packaging offers challenges of its own kind – mostly related to ways of handling different volumes of production and switching between low and high production runs. At FELIX GLUER, we have addressed that with our glue plotter solutions, which in comparison to semi-automatic folder-gluers reduce the setup times to minimum and optimize cost-efficiency related to the production wastage.
However, in the case of packaging production for automotive and furniture industries, gluing time- and cost-efficiency are not the only factors that are of utmost importance. As both automotive and furniture components require special care during transportation, more advanced layers of packaging had to be developed in order to provide enough protection for the shipped elements.
Bonding such custom inserts, partitions, or reinforcements can be a real hassle without a dedicated automated solution. Made of irregular shapes, with foam or plastic substrates, these elements would be a nightmare for gluing operators using manual or semi-automatic techniques. This is where FELIX GLUER glue plotters come to rescue, providing speed and accuracy perfect for high-performance production runs.
