Rendac Packaging Solutions Ltd have been supplying boxes and packaging materials more than thirty years. Based in Bristol the family-owned business has grown to now be able to supply an enormous range of packaging materials to private customers through to any business sector including healthcare, food production, retail, and technology. And when it came to investing in more boxmaking equipment, they turned again to Kolbus Autobox.
In the mid 1990’s Rendac launched their business manufacturing small run lengths of corrugated boxes with a simple but effective two-pass Autobox boxmaker. As demand increased, and longer runs of more complicated boxes were required, they invested in more Autobox machinery. Now they pride themselves of being able to convert almost any type of material including foam and corrugated plastic. Using heat laminating, hot wire cutting, and die-cutting, they can provide customers with finished products in almost any size or shape. Even so it was decided that it was time to invest in a newer, more flexible, and more efficient, boxmaking machine.
The Rendac team with their new Autobox AB300. Managing Director, Terry Offer, centre, with son Callum to his left.
Terry Offer, Managing Director, Rendac, said, “Our existing Autobox machines have been dependable over many years. We work our machines every day, five days a week, and everything we do is on-demand, bespoke and typically, a wide range of work that cannot be produced elsewhere in the timescales we can offer. But we need to stay ahead of the game and continue to improve the product range we can offer our customers.”
The decision to invest was some time in the making. The proposed new machine would need to complement the eight existing Autobox boxmakers, slitters and gluers, and contribute to future-proofing the business. Part of the decision-making process included a visit by Offer to the Houghton Regis headquarters of Kolbus Autobox early last year.
After considering all the available options Offer placed an order for an AB300 Boxmaker. It is a most advanced box making machine, providing both short and medium run solutions, perfect for SMEs such as Rendac. It provides the ultimate tools for customisation and flexibility. Job sizes and costings can be prepared off-line with desktop software creating efficiencies for the operator setting the machine.
The AB300 set time for a job is around half a minute with a typical run speed of 600 boxes per hour, or around 3,000 boxes per day, with less than one percent waste reported. Rendac specified their AB300 to include a twin rail stacker stacker. This allows a single operator to achieve neat, finished stacks and for the waste to be automatically removed.
