A tray can be perfect for filling, sealing and presentation and still be difficult to denest reliably. Our in-house test rig lets us assess the packaging itself before full production equipment is specified.
Send us your trays. We’ll run them, record the trial and show you what happens.
Every trial answers the questions that decide whether a tray will run reliably at production speed:
This is what packaging can look like when it arrives: a stack locked tight enough to defeat a standard denester. It’s exactly the sort of problem the rig exists to solve, and the reason we test real production samples rather than perfect ones.
The test rig is a special build of our most installed denester platform, made completely adjustable. It takes trays from 80 mm to 500 mm wide and stacks up to 300 mm high, so almost any format can be trialled.
Five standard holding-clip types, three pick-frame arrangements and our most successful suction cups, selected from more than fifty types trialled over the years, can be swapped and repositioned in minutes until the tray runs cleanly.
Every adjustable part carries a measurement scale. When a setup works, we record it, and those numbers feed straight into the design of your production machine’s tooling. Right first time, without guesswork.
Testing all three pick types before a machine is quoted often reduces its cost: if a tray runs on a straight pick, you never pay for cylinders it doesn’t need.
The rig has run fibre, foil, recycled plastic (which can be brittle), barrier-lined paperboard trays, including MAP and Vacuum Skin Packaging (VSP) trays, moulded pulp and conventional thermoformed trays: hundreds of formats, recorded and codified into a growing knowledge base that makes the next difficult tray quicker to solve.
Hover over a material to see it running on the rig. On a phone, tap to play and pause.
Prove the tray before you commit to the machine. Send us the packaging, give us the problem, and we’ll show you exactly how it runs.