Design and manufacture a turnkey line, including sourcing the flowrapper and adhesive systems to collate hard cover books selectively, overwrap, turn upside down, apply adhesive and feed, affix, invoice and transfer into the courier stream. Provide a turnkey solution incorporating LONGFORD friction feeders, turnover and a invoice affixing system. All feeders are mounted on portability carts for ease of movement from line to line or plant to plant.
Provide a custom system that collates and wraps various training material such as text books, manuals, CD’s, DVD’s etc., and shipping them to locations around the world. The system will track the packages through the process and provide a closed loop audit trail. Design, build and install a complete turnkey 27 station book collation and fulfillment system. The system selectively feeds the training material based on a database loaded onto the Longford industrial line controller. The collated sets travel through the TexWrap shrinkwrapper with any incomplete sets rejected prior to wrapping. The Longford industrial line controller produces detailed reports at the end of each run for secure download to the customers server.
Design/build a turnkey automated fulfillment system for gift cards, credit cards and high value vouchers. Provide a ‘Closed Loop’ audit trail for the line so operators and managers know each package is 100% fulfilled, shipped and verified. Provide secure package into FEDEX, UPS or DHL courier envelope and upload audit package data to the courier network. Provide 28 feeders, custom conveyor, custom inserter. Unique one to four up card placement system. Industrial controller, secure label system. Also provide OEM components, barcode scanners, print and apply labellers.
The LTS2000 High Speed Tipping System is a rugged, compact and accurate affixing system capable of placing 1 or 2 items onto a carrier at speeds up to 24,000 pieces per hour with a placement accuracy of +/- 1/16". The LTS 2000 easily integrates with any vision or barcode system, vacuum fold base, inserter or wrapper and is ideally suited for gift cards, loyalty cards, direct mail or promotional items.
The Longford Read/Print/Verify System is a rugged, compact and reliable system that reads a bar code or human readable number on product (lottery tickets, direct mail packages etc) travelling on the parent system, performs a database look up and prints the variable data onto a top sheet (top sheet can be folded inline or dispensed flat), read and verify that the printed information is correct and dispense the sheet onto the proper product prior to wrapping or inserting. The system runs at speeds up to 200 ppm.
The Longford Piggyback™ System is the fastest and most efficient way to glue (marry) pre-folded Pharmaceutical Inserts together in stacks of 2-6. The system comes in 2 standard configurations (3 station or 6 station) and utilizes Longford’s industry leading C350 friction feeders and glues the PI’s together at speeds up to 12,000 completed sets per hour. Each feeder can be equipped with bar code verification and the system comes with an inline reject with lock box to ensure incomplete or incorrect sets never enter the finished product stream. The Piggyback™ system is now available with the Longford semi-automatic tray loader to reduce labour at the discharge end and the feeders can be equipped with product autoloaders.
These high speed feeders are specifically designed to integrate with any folder gluer or tipping system. The HS series of feeders can be configured with a Longford AL350 product autoloader and easily integrates with OEM equipment such as vision systems, bar code readers and any style glue system. The HS series has a placement tolerance of +/- 1/16" at speeds of up to 33,000 pieces per hour.
The OS700X Triple Motor Surge Friction Feeder is the world’s best system for the creation of extended content booklet labels. The OS700X easily integrates with any web press or can be integrated as part of an offline system and comes in a variety of widths. The OS700X easily integrates with OEM verification equipment such as bar code readers or vision systems.
These high speed feeders are specifically designed to feed coupons, backer cards etc., from a roll format and cut them to the proper size and feed them into the packaging stream. The coupons can be fed flat or folded (half fold, "Z" fold, and "W" fold) and the feeder can create a "U" board from the backer stock. The RF375 has unmatched labour savings and can operate up to 8 hours without loading another roll. Also available in stainless steel washdown configuration.
The PF375 was developed to feed spice packs, seasoning packs, sauce packs etc., from a continuous bandolier format and insert into the buckets of cartoning lines or into the forming tube of a VFFS. The PF375 comes with a heavy duty powered unwind to draw the product out of the storage gantry, allow for perfect product tension through the system and comes standard with splice detection and end of web detection. Also available in stainless steel washdown configuration.