Amelco Industries has maximized the number of mattress innerspring units in its roll packs using a speciality kraft paper produced by Sweden-based Mondi Dyns.
The result of using the spring pack paper, dubbed Advantage MF SpringPack Plus, led to reduction of packaging costs incurred by customers and facilitating logistics, Mondi said.
Based in Cyprus, Amelco supplies raw materials and machinery for the manufacture of innerspring mattresses. It serves the south-eastern Mediterranean and Middle East region.
The Advantage MF SpringPack Plus speciality kraft paper from Mondi has enabled Amelco to surpass the customer and logistics expectations.
Apart from that, the Cyprus firm has created a new world record in innerspring packing along with the speciality kraft paper team of Mondi by packing 2,200 units of Bonnell innersprings in a 20ft container.
Innerspring units are roll packed to improve the loading capacity of the containers used while transportation. Amelco’s first roll-packing machine was manufactured more than 25 years ago and has today evolved to the version that is now made available on the open market.
Amelco Industries owner Costas Georgallis said: “We test our machine prototypes in real working conditions – e.g. with technical support from Mondi – and improve them before we release them to our customers who asked us to maximize the number of spring units packed in each roll.
“Together with Mondi`s speciality kraft paper experts we realised that controlling the paper tension was a major factor in achieving a successful result. We therefore had to use the best and strongest spring pack paper on the market – which is Advantage MF SpringPack Plus from Mondi.”
Amelco is said to use a 100% recyclable, renewable material which also helps in reducing customers’ costs.
With Advantage MF SpringPack Plus paper, Amelco could produce the same results using 130 g/m2 paper instead of the previously used Advantage MF SpringPack with 160 g/m2 through which there is a saving on both paper and money.
Mondi Advantage MF SpringPack Plus key account manager Carsten Breiter said: “Packing with Advantage MF SpringPack Plus offers considerable cost savings, facilitates transport, storage and unwrapping - without any safety compromises - and means better productivity thanks to a highly automated, continuous paper feed.”
