In fifty-nine countries around the world, Sistema Plastics Limited (Penrose, Auckland, New Zealand) is well known for its range of stackable, food safe storage containers. Perhaps the best known brand, the company’s “Klip It” collection, with its distinctive blue clips allow containers of different sizes to be stacked in different configurations.
To produce these containers in quantity, the company has developed fully-automated systems that include plastic molding injection systems to produce the containers, lids and plastic clips, robotic-guided vision systems that assemble each container and automated systems to label, pack and wrap the containers for shipment.
After each container and lid is manufactured, flexible plastic clips must be applied to seal the lid and the container. In the past, these clips had been manually attached on the base of each container. However when Sistema introduced a new range which featured smaller clips attached to the lid, issues in the manual production process led to the search for an automated solution to lower costs and increase efficiency.
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