Stora Enso has recently implemented a cutting-edge packaging automation system at Lumene Group, a leading Finnish skincare and cosmetics company. The collaboration has resulted in several benefits, enhancing efficiency, innovation, and predictability in Lumene Group’s packaging processes.
“We’ve been looking for a packaging machine suitable for this purpose for a long time and heard that Stora Enso had a solution that could meet our needs,” says Jari Tiusanen, Production Development Director, Lumene Group.
Stora Enso proposed a packaging design and packaging automation solution, a wraparound packaging machine that can shape and fold a corrugated board blank around a product group. Österbergs’ W50 machine was based on Lumene Group’s specifications and in line with product and customer requirements. It is ideal for group-packing almost all kinds of foodstuffs and consumer items, and Lumene Group was delighted to look at the new solution.
The solution is a reliable and user-friendly packaging machine tailored for customer needs. “It is extremely flexible, which allows us to pack all sizes of shelf-ready foodstuffs and consumer packages for the retail sector,” said Petri Aalto, Head of Packaging Automation Finland at Stora Enso.
“The package must also be recyclable and easy to open in store,” he adds. Tube product packaging was previously done manually at Lumene Group. “The initial purpose of investing in packaging automation wasn’t so much to add speed, but to eliminate manual labour from the line,” he says. “In addition, the packaging machine has helped to make production more predictable. Variability in production decreased, productivity improved, and employees were given tasks more comfortable than packaging.”
