A Guide to Tray Formers
Tray Forming Technology
Key Takeaways:
- Labor-saving automation: Automated tray forming replaces time-consuming, inconsistent manual forming and helps reduce labor across the line.
- Speed and efficiency: Tray formers reach speeds up to 45 trays per minute, depending on machine model and tray design.
- Versatile tray styles: A wide variety of tray styles can run on the same equipment, often with quick and easy changeovers.
- Optimized tray structures: Die-cut structures optimize fiber utilization and are designed to meet transport, shelf-ready and e-commerce requirements across many industries.
- Standardized, modular operation: The TF5550-VP system’s modular concept standardizes operation and maintenance across multiple machines, even when running different tray designs.
Looking to replace your manually erected tray? Or is your current machine-formed tray not up to the task? Automation is the answer.
The need to upgrade your tray forming system can come in many forms.
Current manual processes may no longer keep up with production demands. Forming trays by hand is time-consuming, inconsistent, and labor intensive. Or maybe your current tray forming equipment no longer has the speed or reliability to keep up with demand. Or a potentially even worse problem.... your current tray designs no longer work for your varying products or sales channels. All of these issues can lead to production errors and delays, rising operational costs, or reduced sales opportunities.
We can help. Smurfit Westrock offers a selection of Tray Former solutions that deliver speed, efficiency, and flexibility. We offer a huge selection of tray structures specifically designed to meet critical transport, shelf-ready, and e-commerce requirements across many industries.
From produce to protein, dairy, beverage, chemicals and other industrial applications, our tray formers are built to handle tray designs across many industries. Our die-cut structures optimize fiber utilization and match performance, branding and retail requirements.
Our tray formers reduce labor, streamline operations, and handle a wide variety of tray styles, often with quick and easy changeovers. And with speeds up to 45 trays per minute, depending on machine model and tray design, your production line will operate more efficiently.
We offer several models of tray former, including our Tray-8 design and highly flexible TF5550-VP system which utilizes a modular concept to standardize machine operation and maintenance across multiple machines, even when running different tray designs.
From packaging performance to equipment efficiency, Smurfit Westrock's Tray Forming solutions are designed to improve your packaging operations and optimize your supply chain.
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