Sealing the deal on stock plate

The company’s extensive range of tray sealing systems incorporates portable, semi-automatic, automatic in-line, as well as sandwich packaging systems, all of which rely heavily on key tooling components that are manufactured from aluminium or acetal copolymer stock plates.

The company is proud of its reputation for the quality, speed and reliability of its range of sealing equipment and demands the same high levels of quality from its suppliers. It was no surprise that Prosaw recently commissioned its third sawing system within the last two years for cutting stock plates at Proseal’s headquarters in Adlington, Cheshire.

Stock plates come in a variety of thicknesses – those from 7mm to 50mm are used for standard tool; plates up to 100mm in thickness used in vacuum tools. However, when using acetal copolymer tools, plates up to 50mm thick are required.

Unlike previous sawing systems supplied to Proseal by Prosaw, the latest addition is the first vertical bandsaw that has been installed at the company’s headquarters. It was specially designed for Proseal to accommodate all possible thicknesses of its stock plate.

The latest sawing system has been specifically created with a Health and Safety perspective in mind. For example, an extra-large bed is incorporated into the machine in order to assist the operator when loading bulky or heavy stock plates onto the machine.

Additionally, the saw bed is fitted with surface mounted roller bearings to ensure smooth and easy manoeuvring of heavy plates once the plates have been loaded onto the bed.

Manufacturing manager, Paul Wilson comments: “We are happy to have a very good ongoing relationship with Prosaw and have been perfectly satisfied with both the quality of the systems and the excellent aftersales service that we have received from them.”

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