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Speed to market was the number one concern of consumer product company CEOs in a recent Vital Signs survey.

Why Speed to Market Is Important: The first product to market enjoys a larger market share and longer lifecycle. This of course generates more revenue and growth for the company. It also improves brand recognition and creates the image of leadership in the category.

Frain has amassed a large inventory of packaging and processing equipment that is in excellent condition. It can be customized for new projects and deployed in a matter of weeks vs. the months that are now required. Frain has over 40 trained and experienced technicians that have completed hundreds of successful projects. Frain’s proven project management system keeps the project on track and you informed.

Talk to A Frain engineer today to see how we can help launch 5 new products in the time it currently takes to get one into production.

Check out what a few of our customers are saying about their experience with our sales and engineering teams.

Frain is a leading, single-source provider of new and like new packaging and processing machinery. Our customers gain the competitive advantage of getting products to market faster than anyone else through our accelerated approach, unmatched services and quality machinery. Whether you’re assessing short-term, seasonal production machine needs or proven project expansions, we have terms and financing solutions to help.

See how you can get next year’s revenue this year by talking to one of Frain’s experienced sales engineers.

A leading retailer wanted to bring the packaging line of a popular product in house. In addition, they wanted to change the package design to make it more appealing and to reduce shelf space required.

After receiving the customer’s samples, Frain integrated, tested and delivered a complete packaging line in six weeks. After a few days of installation and training they were shipping the new more appealing and profitable product way ahead of schedule.

Maximizing speed to market allowed the customer to enjoy both increased sales of the new package design and incremental cash flow. Click below to learn more about Frain’s unique speed to market capabilities.

See how you can get next year’s revenue this year by talking to one of Frain’s experienced sales engineers.

A leading yogurt company is up and running 75% faster using Frain’s Pay as You Go program.

They had purchased a new cup filler with a 8 to 12 month lead time. That would be 3 to 12 months of sales lost to competitors.

After receiving the customer’s samples, Frain delivered a complete line of cup filler-sealer, topper, vibratory feeder, bucket elevator and scale in six weeks.

With Frain’s Pay as You Go Program the customer just paid for the time they used the equipment and returned it when their new cup filler was installed allowing them to capture increased sales.

If you are short on time and cash, talk to one of Frain’s experienced engineers to see how we can speed your next project into production.

A global confectionary manufacturer came to Frain Industries with the opportunity to get millions in additional revenue by getting a new, innovative packaging out within a specific distribution channel. Frain was able to quickly invest over 1,000 man hours in putting together the complete packaging line within approximately six weeks.  The same line would have taken OEMs six times as long, if not more. The first product to market enjoys a larger market share and longer lifecycle. This of course generates more revenue and growth for the company. It also improves brand recognition and creates the image of leadership in the category. See how you can get next year’s revenue this year by talking to one of Frain’s experienced sales engineers

This is the story of two Frain customers: Joe and Bob. Both called Frain with descriptions of what they thought they needed. Bob wanted to get a quote quickly so he could get back to his team. Our engineers did their best to interpret what he needed even though his information was incomplete.

Joe took our suggestion and sent us a sample of his product so that we could select the best equipment for his project. He also set up a conference calls with all the members of his team so that we could better understand their priorities.

Bob got a quote based on the information he supplied and the price that fit that design. Joe’s team spent a little more time and found that Frain has numerous ways of accommodating your project, budget, and risk tolerance.

You can rent for a variable monthly payment, return the machinery any time to have all payments stop, or we can spread purchase payments out to meet your cashflow needs. In the end, we all came out with a plan and cost that made everyone very happy. Sometimes when we go a little slower we get to the best result faster.

If you need to put multiple products into a bag with precise measurement of each product, this is the filling line for you.

The various products are delivered to the 18 head scales where they are accurately weighed before being sent to the vertical form fill and seal machine below. The vertical form, fill and seal machine forms, fills and seals each package at the rate of 40 per minute. That is 16,000 packages per 8 hour shift.

This is just one of the hundreds of successful projects Frain has completed in a matter of weeks. Click below to see more customer success stories.

The importance of selecting the right machine for your packaging application can not be overstated. Liquid filling machines are a good example.

If you want all of your containers to be filled to a specific level, then only an over flow type filler can provide a consistent fill level in all containers. Depending on multiple variables the format of the overflow filler could be gravity, pressure or vacuum.

The speed of the filler is also determined by the number of valves, the fill time and other internal factors. The skill level of your operators and maintenance people is also of critical importance.

Frain has over 200 liquid fillers in stock. Give us a call. Our engineers can select the right one for your packaging application.

Also, be sure to click on the full-length John Henry video above for a more in depth explanation of overflow fillers.

How to launch 5x more products

A customer just received an order from a big box chain that would require a large carton. They needed to be in production in sixty days but did not have a cartoner that could run the large size carton.

They did not have the budget or time to order a new machine nor did they have the time or manpower available to refurbish and set up a used machine purchased from a dealer or auction.

After receiving the customer’s samples, Frain was able to set up one of our new or nearly new cartoners, conduct the factory acceptance test and ship it to the customer in six weeks.

Not knowing how strong reorders will be, the customer elected to use Frain’s “pay as you go” program that allowed them to pay a small monthly fee while using the cartoner. They then had the option of returning the machine, trading it for a different machine or keeping it.

If you are short on time and cash, talk to one of Frain’s experienced engineers and see how we can speed your next project into production.