Rented and rebuilt equipment saves money and reduces delivery times at Great Lakes Packaging, which installed four rented and rebuilt cartoners and two rented and rebuilt case packers to run microwave popcorn bags. Rented and rebuilt cartoners and case packers are providing a tremendous boon for Great Lakes Packaging, Inc., Valparaiso, IN. A major producer of microwave popcorn, Great Lakes has four packaging lines running its own Family Time brand, as well as contract producing microwave popcorn for a number of major retailers. The plant runs 3.5-and 1.6-oz packages and 11 flavors in nine carton sizes ranging from three-packs to 24-packs. In 2002, Great Lakes needed to upgrade its packaging lines, and it bought two rebuilt Model B1 cartoners from Langen Packaging, Inc. (Avww.langeninc.com). Within the next year and a half, it rented two more rebuilt units. "We've had Langen cartoners for seventeen years, since this was an Orville Redenbacher plant, and they're such good machines that we wouldn't consider anything else. They're low maintenance and basically indestructible," says Great Lakes president Joe Glusak. Glusak is one of a group of former employees who bought the plant from ConAgra.
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