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Cement is an important binder that’s always been in demand by the global construction industry. This demand will keep increasing in 2022 thanks to increased urbanisation — with the market set to exceed USD 469 billion in value by 2025. If you're manufacturing cement, you'll know that the right packaging matters. As a powder product, your cement should arrive at customers unscathed without spilling or creating a dusty and unsafe work environment. If you want to explore your cement FFS bagging options, you’ll want one that cost-effectively fills it at low temperatures. Your FFS bagging for cement will also need to integrate a robot palletiser for cement to protect it from external damage and the weather and ensure it’s easy to stack in a warehouse. Here’s what your options are.

Granulated sugar demand has been high for decades, and is set to exceed $39.68 billion by the end of 2022 and 83.51 billion by the end of 2032. It’s primarily used for confectionery and baked goods , sweetener tablets and syrups as well as alcoholic and non-alcoholic beverages. To preserve its purity, granulated sugar must be transported in bags that are impermeable and insusceptible to temperature variations, water vapour/humidity and contamination, as this can lead to weight loss, mould, fermentation and the release of sugar dust. It also needs to be securely palletised to prevent slipping and shifting during transport. Here’s what you need to know about choosing an (FFS) Form Fill Seal or any bagging machine for granulated sugar or a robot palletiser for granulated sugar products.

In 2021, the global fish feed market was worth over 106.96 million — and it’s estimated to grow at a rate of 9.9 percent until 2027. If you’re in the commercial aquaculture business and manufacture fish feed or pellets, you’ll know that products containing fish oil and fishmeal can make the packaging process much more challenging. Whether you’re packaging your product for the retail sector in small plastic bags of 0.5kgs or are catering to the industrial fish feed sectors in volumes ranging from 500kg to 1500kg Big Bags, you’ll want to explore your fish feed FFS bagging and Robot palletising options. Here’s what you need to know about FFS bagging for fish feed and which robot palletiser to purchase for end of line fish feed distribution.

An unexpected side effect of Covid-19 was that many people left the office to work from home full or part-time. As a result, many of them decided to get a family pet subsequently pet adoptions have surged across the globe. The pet food market has grown accordingly, and so have e-commerce sales of premium but affordably priced dry pet food. It means that pet food manufacturers will be facing increased demand and their products are travelling further than ever before. If you're one of them, we would recommend investing in a suitable pet food FFS bagging solution or a solution offering open mouth bagging for pet food — and possibly a packaging solution integrating a robot palletiser for pet food distribution. Here are your options.

Animal feed has always been in demand and with the world's current feed production estimated at over a billion tons annually, it won't be slowing anytime soon. The UN’s Food and Agriculture Organisation estimates that by 2050 meat production will grow by 70%, aquaculture by 90% and dairy by 55%.

If you're manufacturing wood pellets, you'll want a packaging solution or bagging machine for wood pellets that offers fast speeds and reliable weighing accuracy. Here's how Form Fill Seal/ FFS bagging for pellets could meet your needs and why It’s worth considering palletising wood pellets that you’ve packaged and prepared for sale.

If you produce such products, you'll know that sending your clients attractive and securely packaged products is essential. If you're looking for a solution that involves open mouth bagging for compost or compost FFS bagging (or even a robot palletiser for compost products), here are your options. Healthy and balanced soil and compost are critical to growing crops and plants. Thanks to advances in science, soil and compost products can now offer home gardeners, greenhouses, as well as commercial and residential farmers accelerated maturity and plant and vegetation growth.

If you’re mining and selling silica sand products you’ll know that the product comes with unique packaging constraints, including its free-flowing nature, which can produce potentially harmful dust and lead to product wastage during packaging. It means the packaging machinery you invest in should be compatible with your existing product silos and or conveyors. Here’s why choosing the right bagging machine for sand can allow a continuous flow of product around the clock 24/7 — and how you can customise a Form Fill Seal or FFS bagging for sand and robot palletiser for sand to provide your business with a turnkey solution.

Plastic pellets are a key ingredient in many plastic products millions of people use every day and demand is set to exceed $10.25 billion in just five year’s time. With product manufacturers likely to demand larger volumes, manufacturers can increase their productivity and meet orders in a timely manner through using automatic bagging machinery to package their products. Here's how a robot palletiser combined with a plastic pellet FFS bagging machine can help you meet this demand.

The Covid-19 pandemic impacted the global fertiliser packaging market through plant shutdowns, labour shortages and shipping availability. Market demand is stabilising with production returning to normal. Demand is set to increase across all markets and will remain concentrated on popular macro nutrients like nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium and micronutrient fertilisers. As a fertiliser manufacturer, you might be facing increasing production costs. Switching to automatic bagging for granular fertiliser and robot palletising for bags of fertiliser can help reduce your costs while increasing your productivity. Keep reading to find out more about fast fertiliser FFS (Form Fill Seal) bagging.

The world’s mining market focuses on extracting metals, coal, stone and raw mineral carbonates. Global demand for carbonic acid salts such as lithium carbonate, potassium, magnesia, sodium sulphite, hydrated lime, talc, bromide, dolomite, silica sand, quartz, copper, ferrous and aluminium will exceed $7.1 billion by 2030. This is thanks to their increased usage in producing solvents for coatings, cleaning agents, and adhesives as well as producing catalysts, cleaners, electrolytes and additives.

Free-flowing powders are a critical component of a wide range of products and need to be handled and processed in a specific way to prevent flow issues. Packaging powders is a common area of concern as it can lead to settling, compacting, poor blending and a lack of uniformity in palletised bags.

FIBC bags (also known as jumbo, bulk or big bags or super sacks) describe any industrial container made of flexible fabric. They’re usually made from woven plastic fibres like polypropylene or PVC.

Reliance is an Indian conglomerate with a presence in the petroleum refining industry. They operate the world’s largest petroleum refinery, converting crude oil into fuel and petrochemicals.

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Imagine if you could hire a skilled labourer for only 50p an hour, who’d be able to work 24/7 without taking a break or needing assistance. If this sounds appealing to you, you should consider investing in a robot palletiser.

The fish feed industry is an essential part of humanity's food supply chain and has been for centuries. Without it, we wouldn’t be able to produce the volumes of salmon, tilapia, shrimp and shellfish required to meet the planet’s demands. The global aquafeed market supports economies around the globe by helping them produce export grade fish. As wild marine fishing resources become more finite and controlled fish farming becomes more common, demand for fish feed will increase.

As a business owner, you’re always looking for ways to make your operations more productive and cost effective. With technology advancing rapidly, investing in the right equipment can help you achieve these goals. You might have read about palletisers or seen them in action, but aren’t sure if they can meet the needs of your product and business. The global palletiser market is expected to grow by almost 5% by 2028 and reach a value of USD 3.27 billion by 2026 — demonstrating that many businesses have realised its value.

Harringtons Pet Food is a family operated business that manufactures a range of cat, dog and small animal food. They sell adult, puppy and senior dog wet and dry dog foods in sizes ranging from 150g to 15kg, including grain free and hypoallergenic options. They also produce dry and wet food for adult and senior cats in sizes ranging from 32g to 2kg and rabbit and guinea pig food in 2 and 10 kg sizes.

Ideally, a single compact machine would be able to perform all your production tasks. While a machine like this could be created in the future, current models will perform certain tasks better than others. When combined in a production line, they’ll achieve a higher overall throughput rate than an ‘all in one’ packing machine. If you’re in the market for a robot palletiser, knowing its disadvantages will allow you to customise it to your needs or find a better performing model.

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LKAB Decide To Upgrade Their Manufacturing Process With Webster Griffin's Duplex Palletising System.

The process of palletising and the robots associated with the process have never been safer. Palletising equipment has evolved to become almost foolproof and these models rarely fail on the job. However, introducing people to the equation changes matters. People sometimes make mistakes and it’s the responsibility of the business to do what it can to reduce the risk of accidents occurring.

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Krysteline Technologies is a UK based waste processor that collects and processes all shapes and sizes of glass. They use patented technology to repurpose 100% of the glass collected — no matter its quality. Some if it is repurposed into recycled granular glass cullets, which are used in place of concrete in road beds and pavements and in fibreglass and foam insulation. Krysteline Technologies wanted to modernise their product packing line by reducing manual labour and automating the process. Here’s how Webster Griffin helped them.

The process of palletising and the robots associated with the process have never been safer. Palletising equipment has evolved to become almost foolproof and these models rarely fail on the job. However, introducing people to the equation changes matters. People sometimes make mistakes and it’s the responsibility of the business to do what it can to reduce the risk of accidents occurring.

Derbyshire Aggregates has sourced and processed unusual and difficult materials for over 30 years. Over time, they've become an industry leader in exporting specialist aggregates. One of their offerings is decorative aggregates which are used to provide an attractive but hardy finish to high traffic areas like driveways, pathways, and ground surfaces. This product is sold in large volumes to residential and commercial clients worldwide.

If you want to switch from a conventional palletiser to a robotic one, you’ll need to provide your team with reasons why. You’ll also need to offer more evidence than saying that it’s safer or that it saves time. Keep reading to explore the benefits that robot palletisers offer in detail. By better understanding exactly what it offers, you’ll be able to make an informed decision whether or not to invest in one.

Does your warehouse, factory or order fulfillment/distribution centre use conventional palletisers for your product packaging? If so, you might be considering switching to a robot palletiser. It’s flexible and offers significant space and maintenance savings — which could help streamline your operations and make it more profitable. Its suitability for your business will depend on many factors, including your desired production rates and how many products you handle. To make an informed choice, here’s the difference between the two and why robot palletisers are now superseding conventional palletisers.

Webster Griffin have supplied over 262 systems for filling all types of chemicals, plastics, minerals, fertiliser, feeds, food ingredients and sugar into big bags and super sacks.

Dubai’s Municipality is one the United Arab Emirates’ largest government institutions. It offers a range of public utility services, including managing and operating waste treatment systems. The Municipality built a 670 hectare sewage treatment plant to dry wastewater into sludge, reducing its volume and converting it into safe to handle bio-solids. These bio-solids can be used to fertilise and condition soil and landscaped areas across Dubai. It also keeps the wastewater sludge from ending up in landfills, a process which is costly and bad for the environment.

Keppel Seghers is an international provider of sludge treatment operations and maintenance services. They partnered with Qatar's Public Works Authority to build a sludge treatment plant that treats up to 439,000m3 of waste daily, sourced from wastewater treatment plants all over Qatar. The plant thermally dries and pelletises sludge, transforming it into refuse-derived fuel (a supplementary green energy source) or slow release granular organic fertilizer to be used as a plant boosting soil conditioner.

Before Webster Griffin, there was Darnley Taylor. This historical business was founded in and provided customers with manually operated packers for filling valve paper sacks with cement, lime, gypsum and stone dust. Six years later, Darnley Taylor became one of the first businesses to offer high-speed cement packing machines and Impellor packing machines for valve sacks and crushed rock products.

The Norman Emerson Group is a private family owned business that’s operated for over 75 years. They manufacture and sell sand and gravel for construction, industrial, equestrian, surface dressing and silica bunker purposes. The Group contacted Webster Griffin as they knew of our experience in working with other high profile companies in this sector. Increased consumer demand meant that they needed a new automated bagging and palletizing system for dredged sand and aggregates at their factory in Craigavon. Here’s how we assisted them.

A Bulk Bag or FIBC (Flexible Intermediate Bulk Container) filling system will save you time and increase your throughput dramatically. However, even the most well made machine needs maintenance.

We are delighted to acknowledge being a UK distributor of Okura Robot palletisers/de-palletisers for sacks, bags, boxes, cartons, drums and shrink-wrapped packs for over 21 years.

Your business needs a Big Bag or FIBC (Flexible Intermediate Bulk Container) filling system. However you’ve noticed that some suppliers let you choose a stationary system or a mobile one mounted on wheels or a subframe that a forklift can move around. If you aren’t sure which option would be best for your business, here are a few questions you can ask to make the answer more apparent.

Since 1999, Blazer’s Fuels Ltd has manufactured and supplied UK clients with blazer fuel logs and fuel pellets. These dense and combustible wood and biomass pellets are used for commercial and residential heating.

Are you planning a FIBC (Flexible Intermediate Bulk Container) or Big Bag filling machine installation? If so, it might seem like there’s never an ideal time to do it.

When you’re selling powder products, dust has the potential to become a costly and dangerous workplace issue. Your workers could develop health issues from repeated inhalation of it and in time it can lead to product wastage.

Silica sand is often used in golf courses and sports fields. It can also filter water, make glass and act as an industrial abrasive.

No matter what type of powdered product you’re selling, you’re responsible for each package weighing what it’s supposed to weigh. This is important when you’re filling FIBC (Flexible Intermediate Bulk Container) Big Bags. Rechecking the weight of filled Big Bags can be impractical or challenging — which means that you need to get it right the first time.

Investing in the right Big Bag filling system will save you time and money while increasing your productivity. However, investing in one that doesn’t meet your needs means you’ll forgo these benefits or fall behind on your commitments.

You sell Big Bag products and are ready to upgrade your current filling system or get one for the first time.

Around the world, lockdown measures are easing. It means that for the first time in months many manufacturers across the USA, EU and UK are seeing a jump in demand and the need to ramp up their output. If you’re a business manufacturing and packaging products in Big Bags, you’ll be wanting to resume high speed production as soon as possible.

Silica sand is a mixing and surfacing product that provides structure to everything from floors to roofing shingles. Bathgate Silica Sand has manufactured silica sand products for almost every industry imaginable. Robot palletisier

Most manufacturers selling bulk products have heard of FIBC (FIBC Flexible Intermediate Bulk Container) bags. Hardy and affordable, they’re versatile enough to package most products.

In an ideal world, planting soil would have the same qualities in every country, and would need nothing else to nourish what it grows. In reality, market demand, diverse soil types and different plant needs, means that fertilizer is critical for successful planting.

IPN launched their first official dog food range in 1985. They are a family owned business based in Yorkshire that produces high quality pet food using high quality ingredients making it great value for money. Wagg Foods a subsidiary of IPN, caters for smaller pets with a range of pet food suitable for Rabbits, Guinea Pigs, Hamsters, Gerbils and Mice.

Labeling and packaging different sizes of products for shipping, transportation and palletization can be challenging without a production line that can keep up with demand. It’s here that products are protected and prepared for storage and tagged for tracking and identification down the line. Webster Griffin is experienced in installing integrated packaging systems tailored to a business’s needs. Here’s how we helped one of the world’s largest aquafeed suppliers with a fully comprehensive solution.

The UK horticultural industry contributes over £20 billion to the country’s GDP. It means that local businesses are dealing with intense demand for gardening products. Bathgate Horticulture has been distributing single pallets and full loads of bagged horticultural products to clients for over a century. Here’s how Webster Griffin helped them install a high throughput, total solution, complete bagging line.

FIBC (Flexible Intermediate Bulk Container) bags store large volumes of product in a single unit. Their strength and protective qualities means they can store a diverse range of products.

When you think of sophisticated filling machinery, it's easy to assume that most only cater to small bag sizes. While many machines work with this size designation, it’s also possible to automate the processing of filling Bulk Bags or Big Bags.

When it comes to installing Form Fill Seal (FFS) packaging machines, our approach differs from client to client. Despite this, we approach each challenge with a similar mindset and process.

In the past, manufacturers packaging high density, light or fine powdered products had to use a valve sack filling machine. While Form Fill Seal (FFS) packaging machines also existed at the time, early versions couldn’t package these kinds of products well. It meant that businesses were forced to choose between the two machines, forgoing the benefits FFS machines have to offer.

When you’re considering buying a Form Fill Seal (FFS) packaging machine, it’s easy to focus exclusively on its primary benefits. Its throughput per hour and overall cost will be a major deciding factor for your business. However, these shouldn’t be the only elements you focus on if you want to get the most value from it in the long term. To ensure your FFS machine integrates seamlessly into your operations and saves you time and money, here are two factors worth keeping in mind.

Form Fill Seal (FFS) packaging machines are popular as they are quick and efficient at packaging products. If you’ve already invested in one, your business will benefit — but not if you keep using it when it no longer meets your needs, requires fixing or modification.

Building, infrastructure and construction industries around the world rely on cement for its versatility and wide range of applications. It’s used in everything from small residential projects to massive industrial builds and experts predict that this year, global cement production will exceed 4 billion metric tons.

No business wants to invest its hard-earned money into equipment that future technological advancements will render obsolete. Ideally, any large purchase should remain useful for long enough for it to recoup its cost and boost your profits.

Packaging products for sales and delivery is an important step in getting your goods to customers in good condition. Thankfully, there are many packaging machines you can choose from to get the job done.

Webster Griffin have added the Modulo Auto Bagger for Re-sealable Pouches to our range of Bag and Sack filling machines. It is a fully automatic machine with high speed operation making it ideal for short, special batch runs.

As a business owner, you’ll know that the right or wrong product packaging can make or break a sale. In the past packaging only listed product ingredients and serving recommendations.

Webster Griffin have added the Modulo Auto Bagger to our range of Bag and Sack filling machines. It is a fully automatic machine with high speed operation making it ideal for short, special batch runs.

During an Installation with Inspired Pet Nutrition (IPN). We were supplied with sacks of dog food for testing. Wagg Foods were unable to take the product back into their supply chain so we decided to give it to the people who need it more!

Your business needs packaging equipment and has decided on a Form Fill Seal (FFS) machine. By now, you’ve established that it can help you package more products in fewer shifts and can cut costs. It’s also more affordable than using pre-made bags and suits what you’re trying to package.

Product packaging is the final step of your business’s manufacturing process. Executed correctly, it will keep your product intact and preserve its quality as it makes its way to the customer. Pick the wrong processes or machinery and you could blow your budget and get set back days in time and labour.

Founded in 1975, Webster Griffin has established itself as a renowned supplier of machinery and robotics to the packaging industry. In this article, we turn back the time to contemplate the various technological advances Webster Griffin have made in the packaging industry.

In 2020, the global aquafeed market exceeded USD 50 billion, and it's projected to reach over USD 71 billion by 2025. Consumer demand will drive increased seafood consumption as protein rich diets become more popular and the overall fish feed market will grow on average by CAGR 5% per year.

The manual lifting of pallets has been eliminated at the Shipping Department of the Tulip retail packing centre in Herning (DK). Pallet handling is now automated with a PALOMAT® Greenline. This has created better workflow, which has also ended related work injuries.

In its 40-year history, Webster Griffin Ltd(opens in new tab) has exported to over 70 countries. We’ve helped them to increase the volume of their export sales by providing finance in collaboration with their bank HSBC.(opens in new tab)

Reliance Industries, probably the world's largest manufacturer of plastics and petrochemicals choose Webster Griffin to engineer and manufacture a mobile jumbo bag filling system for their J3 expansion project, Jamnagar, Gujarat.

The system utilises the latest technology to deliver a throughput up to 1,000 bags an hour for varying bag sizes from 3kg to 25kg. The system is controlled by a highly sophisticated HMI control panel complete with touchscreen to ensure consistent high-speed bagging of Peacock’s Salt Rock Salt product.