Douglas Machine designs and manufactures secondary packaging automation equipment for consumer packaged goods producers: case and tray packers, shrink wrap systems, cartoners, sleevers, multipackers and variety pack systems. The company is employee-owned.
Horizontal-load (CpONE, Axiom, OPTX) and top-load (TriVex) case and tray packers for bottles, cans, jugs, cartons, cups, bags and pouches. Model speeds range up to 150 cases per minute.
OPTX shrink wrappers, shrink packers, multiwrappers and VS-25/40 series for tray, pad-film and film-only bundles. Model speeds range from 25 to 105 cycles per minute.
Vectra and Vantra IM cartoners, Apex sleever, Spectrum multipacker and NEXClip paperboard ring applicator for bottles, cans, cups and bags. Speeds up to 325 cartons per minute.
Variety pack system that feeds mixed flavors of cans and PET bottles to Douglas packers, cartoners and shrink systems. Packs hold 2–6 flavors and 4–35 products.
Robotic cell that uses vision and force sensing to pick corrugate stacks and load packaging-machine magazines, with slipsheet removal and radar-controlled safety zones.
Technical support (24/7 phone line), commissioning and integration, training and documentation, service plans with onsite visits, parts and upgrades for Douglas machines.