Switching to water-activated tape brings stronger, tamper-evident, eco-friendly seals — but it also changes one thing on your packing line: WAT must be moistened before application. For operations sealing dozens or thousands of cartons a day, the right dispensing and sealing equipment is what turns that requirement into an advantage instead of a bottleneck. This guide walks through the full ...
On an automatic case sealer, the tape is part of the machine. Operators blame the sealer for jams; often the sealer is fine and the roll is wrong — wrong core, wrong outer diameter, wrong unwind tension. Specifying tape for machine application is a different job than specifying tape for a hand gun. This guide covers the four specs that decide whether the machine runs or stops. 1. Roll geomet...
The machine idled in September. In November it became the bottleneck: changeovers eating the shift, operators reverting to hand taping, the automation you paid for sitting bypassed at the end of the line. The machine was not bad. It was bought for an average day, and then it met a peak season. We size machines for the day they will actually be judged on — the ten worst days of the year &mdas...