Manufacturing Technology

New packing centre for de WIT 03 August 2015

Recognised for its famous brand name Don Quichotte, the Netherlands nail manufacturer de WIT recently committed to a major investment in a complete new packing centre for its production facility in Helmond.

The investment includes three new Weighpack high-speed automatic packing lines able to handle 27 different packing mediums and packing over 3,500 different articles. The automatic packing line functions include: Carton erection, product filling and product orientation in the box, box closing, labelling and automatic case packing in multiples of ten boxes in a case.
Installation and start-up for the first automatic packing line is scheduled for November 2015. Installation of the second and third line will follow in intervals of five months. After installation the packing capacity at de WIT will reach over 10 million boxes per year; each box containing between 100 – 500 pieces of fasteners or fixings.
The 2 million euro contract signed by Mr Willem Zantvoort, general manager of de WIT, and Andries Kout, CEO of Weighpack, will renew a longstanding partnership between the two companies, replacing 30 year old Weighpack machines, still in operation, with state of the art high-speed ones.

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