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Better working environment and higher output with automated packing of corrugated trays for bread

The challenge: How to avoid folding 2000 corrugated trays per day by hand

Employees at Liba Bröd had to fold their trays for bread every day. And as the business grew, so did the number of trays.

Liba Bröd's impressive growth created stress and obstruction in an area outside of their expertise: Packaging

The popular bread is baked outside of Gothenburg, Sweden, and the company is growing steadily. Today its products are sent across Sweden, Finland, Norway, Denmark and France. But of course, the combination of a popular product and increased growth means more product to ship. And more product means more packaging trays to fold.

Thomas Blomqvist

Product Manager Liba Bröd

“Stress levels certainly increased when we had to fold that many trays manually. We barely had time to do it all. We also felt it could become a health and safety issue.”

The answer?

A tray erector machine and automated corrugated trays

A complete packaging solution

To protect their employees, Liba Bröd invested in an automated tray erector and trays tailored to the machine from Stora Enso.

Thomas Blomqvist

Product Manager Liba Bröd

“We think it’s great getting everything from a single supplier: Corrugated trays, the machine, servicing and maintenance.”

The corrugated cardboard packaging is produced in Sweden, and kept in stock by Stora Enso to ensure it is readily available. Liba Bröd simply orders what they need.

“It’s great that Stora Enso keeps the trays in stock. Delivery times are short and we avoid the hassle of delayed deliveries.”

The benefits

The machine, known as a tray former, glues and folds the flat sheets that are delivered to the factory. The trays then move along a belt to the operator, who packs the trays with filled bread bags.

“It’s extremely reliable in terms of operation, so we can cope with a higher output than we could before. The machine is part of our production increase, and has meant one less bottleneck in the process.”