Stretch Wrapping Ices Six-Month Payback: Safety is important, and money talks when adding new equipment to the end of the packaging line

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Can one stretch wrapping machine be safer than comparable equipment, while still being less expensive, miserly with materials, smaller and more convenient to use? Kisko Products (Markham, Ontario), maker of some of North America's favorite frozen treats, found the answer is "yes" when it applies to the company's two stretch wrapping machines added to its packaging line. Safety was an overriding decision factor, however, the six-month payback in reduced film use and overtime made the two S-300 rotary-arm machines from Lantech (Louisville, Ky.) an accountant's dream, according to Randy Josephs, vice president of operations at Kisko. The two new machines have reduced film use more than 35%, and eliminated about four hours of overtime a day, while churning out several hundred pallets per day during the company's seasonal peak.