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Sleeving Machines

Wrap your tray or tub in a printed sleeve for branding, closure and tamper evidence

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SLEEVING YOUR PRODUCT

FLEXIBLE, EFFICIENT, BUILT FOR YOUR LINE

A sleeving machine applies a printed card sleeve around a tray, tub or pack, giving you branding, closure and tamper indication without a fully enclosing carton.

It comes in two platforms.

A pre-glued sleever erects a sleeve your supplier has already glued into a flat tube and pushes the product through it, running up to 150 sleeves per minute.

A wrap-around sleever folds a flat blank around the product and hot-melt seals it, running up to 40 sleeves per minute, higher capital but roughly twice the rate, and less material per sleeve.

Both replace the manual sleeving station that is usually the labour bottleneck on a chilled or ready-meal line, and both are designed, built and supported here.

Sleeving Machine Render
  • Two platforms built in Australia: pre-glued sleevers & wrap-around sleevers
  • Handles multiple sleeve sizes and SKUs on one machine with a quick, tool-less changeover
  • Built for cool rooms, with washdown construction available
  • Sleeving and cartoning available as a single combined cell, one footprint, one control system

APPLICATIONS

  • Sleeved hummus pot, fruit cup, yoghurt tub and twin-pot dip carrier

    Dips, dairy & tubs

    • Dip & hummus · yoghurt multipacks
    • Cream & dairy pots · fruit tubs
    • Margarine & spread tubs
  • Sleeved fibre trays of risotto, rice, salad and lasagne

    Ready meals & trays

    • Salad trays · chilled ready meals
    • Pasta · risotto · lasagne trays
    • Frozen dinners
  • Sleeved salmon tray, mussels, sausages, prosciutto and boiled egg pack

    Seafood, meat & deli

    • Smoked salmon trays · mussels
    • Smallgoods & prosciutto
    • MAP sausage · hard-boiled egg packs
  • Sleeved cheese and cracker pack, cupcakes, cereal bag, pastry roll and canned drink four-pack

    Snacks, bakery & drinks

    • Cheese & crackers · cupcakes
    • Mini cupcakes · brownie bites · cereal
    • Ready-roll pastry · bottles or cans

What makes our solutions different

  • Award-winning expertise

  • Robust engineering

  • On-site & 24/7 remote support

  • Australian made

KEY STATS

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Specification Pre-glued sleever Wrap-around sleever
Typical output Up to 150 sleeves/min Up to 40 sleeves/min
Motion Intermittent & Continuous Intermittent & Continuous
Sleeve supplied as Pre-glued flat tube Flat blank, glued on the machine
On-machine glue system None Nordson or Robatech hot melt
Formats 3-, 4- and 5-sided sleeves, partial-enclosure sleeves, over-the-top sleeves; multiple sleeve sizes per machine Full flat blanks
Changeover Tool-less, recipe-driven; size-specific magazine per sleeve design Tool-less, recipe-driven
Construction 304 stainless and engineering plastics, clear polycarbonate guarding; washdown build available (IP66 motors, gearboxes and electricals) As pre-glued
Environment Cool room 4–10°C at 50–70% RH; damp cold-room builds available As pre-glued
Controls Allen Bradley CompactLogix, PanelView HMI, PowerFlex drives, SEW Eurodrive motors; Siemens or Omron to site standard As pre-glued
Power / air 415V AC 3-phase 50Hz + N + E · 6 bar, 350 L/min clean dry air As pre-glued
Safety & standards Category 3 minimum, Category 4 compressed air · AS4024 guarding · AS3000 wiring As pre-glued

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FAQ

What is a sleeving machine?

A sleeving machine applies a printed card sleeve around a tray, tub or pack, giving branding, closure and tamper indication without a fully enclosing carton. Pre-glued sleevers erect a supplied glued tube and push the product through; wrap-around sleevers fold a flat blank around the product and glue it.

How fast is a sleeving machine?

HMPS pre-glued sleevers run up to 80 packs per minute, and up to 120 on some builds. Wrap-around sleevers reach up to 150 packs per minute. Actual rate depends on pack size, sleeve design and how the product arrives at the machine.

Can one machine do both pre-glued and wrap-around sleeves?

No. A wrap-around sleever is designed for full flat cardboard blanks and will not run pre-glued or plastic sleeves. If you need both formats, specify that at concept stage so we design for it.

What board do sleeves need to be?

High-quality chip board with pre-broken score lines, correctly packaged and stored to prevent warping. Warped sleeves are the single most common cause of sleever inefficiency, so this is worth settling with your board supplier before you buy a machine.

Can a sleever handle multiple sleeve sizes?

Yes. We design machines to run multiple SKUs with a quick changeover, with size-specific magazines as change parts. Tell us your full sleeve size range rather than your largest — the range is what drives the design.

Can it run in a cool room?

Yes. We’ve built for 4–10°C at 50–70% relative humidity on dry-clean-only regimes, and for damp cold-room environments. Washdown builds use IP66 motors, gearboxes and electrical components with 304 stainless and anodised aluminium construction.

Can you sleeve and carton in one machine?

Yes. We build a cell that singulates, sleeves and cartons, replacing two machines and a transfer conveyor with one footprint, one control system, one changeover and one set of spares.

Can you print or code onto the sleeve?

Yes. Small-character inkjet with under two seconds dry time is the usual approach. Where a substrate is unusual we run ink trials on your actual material before committing.

Will it handle a metallic or high-gloss sleeve?

Yes, with validation. For any non-standard substrate we bring the adhesive manufacturer in, run glue and temperature trials on your actual board, and get a written recommendation before the design is locked — which takes adhesion off the risk register.

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