Line Equipment not
resting on their laurels
Line Equipment, past winners of the PPMA Certificate of Merit for Design and
Manufacture in packaging machinery, are not resting on their laurels, even after 30 years in
business. Instead they have developed 3 powerful new machines in the last three years.
The LE360 PDQ is the latest machine
to be developed by Line Equipment
specially to meet our customers
demands, by providing both
‘standard’ and ‘Doy style’ stand-up
pouches from the one machine.
More and more of our customers,
whether they are contract packers or
supplying own brand products into
supermarkets report that they are
being ‘guided’ to supply more ‘stand
up pouch’ Doy style packaging. Like
most manufacturers Line Equipment
build and supply a dedicated Pouch
machine as part of their range.
However if you are a producer /
contract packer and have already a decision. To develop one machine brand, with the extra marketing
invested in a line of machines capable of producing most styles needs that that success carries,
that produce the ‘standard’ range of bags, including Doy style, while including a move to more prominent
of Pillow, Block Bottom or Quad keeping to the same quality and packaging display requirements.
bags then this supermarket driven cost effectiveness that the rest of move towards Doy style Stand-Up our range is renowned for”.
this customer took advantage
Pouches will have implications in
terms of investment and space.
For additional end-user satisfaction,
After a year of development and of our optional Zip Applicator for
testing we finally launched the recloseable bags.
What do you do? Rip out and LE360 PDQ at the beginning of replace one or more standard VFFS 2018. The first commissioned The LE360 PDQ is a solution that
baggers? Swap completely to Pouch machine went to a customer typical allows customers to produce
bagging? of the implications of own brand various bag styles from one
success, where, from a new product machine, filling the gap to a move
John Blashkiw, Managing Director launch of gluten-free products to dedicated machines for each
stated “As our own customers came in 2006, they have developed in product bag range, as and when the
to us with those questions we made popularity to become a High Street production levels demand.
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