Frain Industries has provided services to thousands of companies over their 28 year history.  Often times these companies include Fortune 500 companies such as Sara Lee.  Frain provided Sara Lee with solutions that would save them both time and money.  Sara Lee chose to utilize rental equipment, knowing that it would be the most cost-effective and rapid approach to test-market its award-winning Cheesecake Bites.

Fred Russell, the project manager for Sara Lee, says: “Test-marketing a product is like buying a new car–you want to make sure it runs before you make the investment.”

According to Russell, Sara Lee saved six months of lead time and US$4 million by renting and reconditioning pre-owned equipment instead of purchasing new machinery.

It’s a concept that saves on capital. Instead of an initial large capital outlay, companies have monthly expenditures on rental equipment versus purchasing a new corporate asset. Businesses that want to manage cash-flow have options at the end of a rental agreement that allow for the return or purchase of the pre-owned equipment.

Frain Industries has revolutionized the pre-owned machinery industry with its “one-stop-shop” approach. It has refined a new concept in getting equipment operations up-and-running by offering renting, reconditioning, leasing and purchasing of pre-owned machinery all under one roof. Along with selling pre-owned equipment, the company is the largest purchaser of idle assets in the packaging industry.

Many companies don’t realize the assets in previously used machinery that sits dormant in the back of warehouses.  

If you are looking for the most efficient way to package soaps and detergents, look no further.  Frain Industries, North America’s largest supplier of Pre-Owned packaging and processing machinery, has thousands of machines that can increase your production and get you to market quicker.  Whether you are looking for a cartoner, sealer, labeler, overwrapper, coder, tray packer, palletizer, or case packer, Frain has hundreds of quality pre-owned machines that will maximize your packaging output at significant savings compared to the price of new machinery. 

Ideal for bar soap, Frain’s Pester PEWO-fold is a full overwrapper that can also be operated as a band wrapper.  Output rated at 50 cycles per minute, this wrapper is in excellent condition and wraps 600 bars per minute.  Pre-Owned as an overwrapper, its package size range is 250mm in length, 140mm in height, and 360mm in width; as a band wrapper its width range is 400mm.  The wrapper comes with a Siemens PLC, film registration, and a carton upender.    With upstacking, as well as multiple row, capabilities, the Pester PEWO Fold Wrapper is the perfect solution for your soap packaging needs.     

All Frain Group machines are available for rental or purchase and come with a two week right of return.  To take advantage of the numerous benefits that Frain Industries offers, call one of our sales professionals at 630 / 629-9900, or log on to www.fraingroup.com to view our 30,000-piece inventory.

“Usually, putting together a packaging line with new equipment takes close to a year,” says Luciano. “But when you don’t have the luxury of time, pre-owned equipment may be a viable option.”

Pfizer was able to benefit from the enormous database of equipment, and expansive warehouse at The Frain Group. The Frain Industries sales team helped Luciano track down a washer, and later a capper, for their aseptic filling line for injection bottles.

“Frain had the broadest selection of the type of equipment we were looking for,” says Luciano. “They had four washers readily available, and we ended up getting the best one suited for our application.”

Farther down the packaging line, Luciano realized Pfizer’s special cap machine, which was to be used on this same job, was inadequate. They were now faced with the question of whether to rebuild or replace.

Luciano went back to Frain and found four cappers available and one that would fit the bill nicely. Frain’s offer to exchange the Pfizer capper for one of their cappers made the sale more cost effective to Pfizer.

“Frain was a great resource for us,” says Luciano. “You have to be a savvy buyer when it comes to used equipment. You have to go in and take the guards off and made sure it is mechanically sound. But for those willing to check things out thoroughly, there are great opportunities to get good deals on pre-owned equipment.”

Franklin Park, IL – June 22, 2006– New product introductions are a main source of sales growth for most consumer packaged goods companies, however, this comes with an elevated degree of risk.   According to a 2004 AC Nielson report, “about 80% of new products will fail within the first three years of introduction.”  With such a low success rate, getting the product to market when anticipated is vital.  When the pharmaceutical manufacturer, Ivax, came to Frain Industries with this exact request, the used packaging and processing dealer jumped at the challenge. 

The Ivax Corporation, a leading pharmaceutical company that produces branded and generic pharmaceuticals, first approached Frain Industries after a failed packaging operation that was to take place in the Czech Republic.  The corporation needed a complete line to package a generic allergy nasal spray, however the company had a specific deadline to meet.  The branded allergy product was currently prescription only and Ivax wanted to be on the shelves with their generic brand as soon as the FDA approved the drug to be over the counter. 

Two used high-speed packaging lines, capable of up to 350 packages per minute, was sold to the Ivax Corporation.  Cartpac, a division of the Frain Group, set the machines to size and integrated sets.   In a matter of 10 short weeks, Cartpac had the lines running to the exact standard of the Ivax Corporation.  The machinery was shipped to the customer and production on their generic product began. 

An estimated 1.8 to 2.2 million dollars was saved buying high quality used equipment as opposed to buying new from an original equipment manufacture.  However, time was the most important factor for this particular customer and Frain Industries had the pharmaceutical giant up and running in 10 weeks compared to the 12 months it would have taken a new equipment manufacturer to provide.  Along with monetary and time savings, Cartpac provided Ivax with set up in their facility, training for their operators and complete technical support. 

The Frain Group is the world leader in high quality used packaging and processing machinery with over 6,000 machines in stock and available for two day shipping.  Frain strives to continuously expand its inventory while providing outstanding customer service to consumers in the food, pharmaceutical, chemical and cosmetic industries.

Frain rents, sells and leases all types of packaging machinery and has the ability to set up any machine for the customers specific need, all with a two week right of return guarantee.