We have definitely seen an increase in enquiries for pick and place loading – typically the part of the packaging process that involves putting the primary wrapped product into cases before loading on to pallets.

Why? well, our customers are telling us that they need to reduce their prices to the end user because that is what consumers and Supermarkets are demanding so they are looking at ways to cut costs and labour intensive hand packing is one of the areas where huge savings can be made – not only in labour but also in materials because the materials used in case packing tend to be cheaper. 

This is often the last part of the packaging line to automate because producers, especially with a new product launch,  will hand pack for a period of time until they are sure of demand. Most of our enquiries are coming from high volume food producers e.g bakery, confectionary, drinks, coffee, ready meals & snacks.