What is Wrap-Around Sleever and What Packaging Does it Serve?

What is a wrap-around sleever?

There are different processes in the production of all kinds of articles and different packaging machines are used for them to facilitate these processes and improve the performance and speed of production. In the case of the packaging process, in many cases, among others, wrap-around sleever is used as packaging machines for cardboard sleeve packaging.

This packaging process consists of wrapping the products with different materials such as paperboard and cardboard sleeves, creating a resistant packaging that keeps the products together and firm, being used in different products such as trays, cups, cans or bottles.

These automatic packaging systems allow a saving of resources since no more amount of wrapping material is used than necessary, while ensuring the integrity of the products, preventing it from moving and preparing it effectively and safely for transport and improving the manufacturing time of the same, being ideal systems for mass production chains.

These are industrial packaging machines built by motorized rollers that guide the article, cardboard sleeve picker and other types of automatic sleeve packaging systems that use different materials for packaging. Wrap-around sleever applies tight sleeve packaging and can replace plastics to reduce environmental impact.

Some sleever machines allow printing the company branding and other product information on the packaging of the same, something really important for such companies since in many cases it is necessary and mandatory information.

What are the different types of sleever machines?

There are different wrap around sleeve packaging machine models that respond to the type of production that is carried out in the factories that use them.

For example, automatic wrap-around sleever machines are usually the ones chosen in chain productions, since they do not require the intervention of any operator, although there are also semi-automatic machines in which the operator must manually place the items in the machine so that the packaging process begins.

There are also different types of sleever machine depending on the operation on which they are based to what types of cardboard sleeve is used: pre-glued sleever or unglued flat sleeve blanks.

The machines that perform to wrap a container such as trays of ready meals with cardboard sleeve and complete the closure on the bottom with adhesive.

Wrap-around sleeve packaging machines are usually used for delicate and fragile items or whose material may suffer damage when in contact with the heat used in the previous type of machine. In addition, they usually offer a more elegant finish, something highly valued in products that must have an impeccable or elegant presentation.

Full servo-driven solutions for cardboard sleeve wrapping systems

ELITER Packaging Machinery is one of the leading manufacturers of wrap-around sleever to offer packaging solutions for production lines thanks to our service of advanced packaging machine manufacturing. This means that companies can access these machines on a sales basis as well as on a rental basis. The latter option can help entrepreneurs to cover the requirements that a one-off increase in their production may require.

Zixin Yuan - Digital Marketing Coordinator at ÉLITER Packaging Machinery Website: https://www.eliter-packaging.com