published on 14/08/09
Contract engineers about to install a carton-wrapping machine from Suffolk end-of-line equipment manufacturer Linkx Systems to increase the speed it can process packs for distribution.
Linkx Systems director David Hayward said the Matrix side-feed collating and wrapping machine, which is due to leave the firm's Beccles plant next week, could process around 50% more packs than similar machinery in the same time.
'We've jumped from 180 to 200 packs a minute to 300. It's quite a big difference,' he said.
Former Europac employees Hayward and Doug Reilly founded Linkx in July 2007 from a shed on a farm from where they would refurbish machines.
Linkx began building its own machinery around 12 months ago and moved into new premises at the end of May and has made machines for a number of firms including Unilever and Birds Eye.
Hayward said that despite the current economic climate the business was going from strength to strength.

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