Notes from the factory floor
Buying guides, ROI breakdowns and engineering tips from the team that designs and installs conveyor and packaging lines every week.

How to choose the right conveyor for your factory
Belt, roller, slat or inclined? A practical guide to picking the right conveyor for your product, throughput and floor layout.

VFFS vs pre-made pouch: which packaging route fits you?
Form-fill-seal lines and pre-made pouch fillers solve similar problems differently. Here's how to decide.

5 practical ways to reduce packaging line downtime
Most line stoppages come from a handful of repeat causes. Here's the maintenance and design checklist we use.

Shrink wrap or stretch wrap? Choosing your unitising method
Both protect outgoing pallets and multi-packs — but their economics and aesthetics differ a lot.

Sizing a carton sealer for your dispatch line
Auto, semi-auto, random-size — a quick guide to picking the right carton sealer for your volumes.

The real ROI of packaging automation — with numbers
We walked through a recent FMCG line upgrade. Here's the payback breakdown.
