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PIN = WINs Industry Case Studies

Below are a variety of success stories from our PIN members highlighting how they met customers’ needs in various industries.
  • Case Sealer/Pet Food
    Problem: The pet food manufacturing facility in Kansas had packaging requirements from the company’s marketing leadership to use a smaller than average-size case for their product packaging. The customer reported that the current case sealers on site were not capable of running boxes of the newly required smaller size. Solution: PIN Distributor, Raab Sales, provided a new ...
  • Case Erector/Chemical
    Problem: This client utilizes a filling machine to fill tubes with caulk. Product discharges from the filling machine at a continuous rate. Operators had a hard time opening a case blank, holding it on a table and filling it at the rate of the processing machine. Tubes would fall over in the case, making it difficult ...
  • Thermal Inkjet/Prepared Foods
    Problem: This client was using small character continuous inkjet printers to print on taco and pasta pouches on their fillers at a rate of about 800 pouches per minute. They were having many service issues related to the existing units and were looking for an alternative way of printing flavors and date codes on the pouches. Solution: Diversified ...
  • Thermal Inkjet/Prepared Foods
    Problem: This customer had a labor intensive process of forming boxes, filling the boxes with baked pizza crusts, hand taping the boxes and manually applying pressure sensitive barcode labels to the outside of the corrugated cases. Production would get backed up waiting for several operators to complete the end-of-line steps in the process. Solution: Mammoth Labels & Packaging sold this ...
  • Thermal Inkjet/Fruits, Vegetable & Beverage
    Problem: This client had requirements to upgrade old marking equipment for their corrugated shipping cases. The product was loaded into a box and sent through a folding and sealing carton machine. After the carton was sealed, the date, lot code, product description, expiration date and bar code were printed on the boxes with a Piezo-based high-resolution ...