Discover how the automated Edda Packaging Spinner 1800S BN line cut furniture packaging time from 10 minutes to 55 seconds per sofa and optimised logistics for a major European manufacturer.
Redefining industrial furniture packaging: a case study from Poland
In high-volume furniture manufacturing, packing large items such as sofas and armchairs has traditionally been one of the most labour-intensive and time-consuming stages of production. Manual packaging not only drains human resources but also leads to inconsistent packaging quality and material waste.
Edda Packaging Machines recently installed a fully customised Spinner 1800S BN furniture packaging line at a major manufacturing plant in Poland. The operational and financial impact was immediate.
The challenge: high labour costs and lost time
Before the Edda line, our client in Poland produced around 600 sofas a day. To keep up with this output, the company needed a team of 25 packaging employees.
Each bulky item was wrapped by hand with bubble wrap and stretch film, a physically demanding job that took two people almost 10 minutes per sofa. The result was high labour costs, slower logistics and no real-time data on material consumption or package weight.
The solution: the Spinner 1800S BN packaging and weighing line
Edda Packaging redesigned the entire workflow with an inline Spinner 1800S BN horizontal orbital wrapping system, integrated with weighing stations and data transfer to the client’s systems.
How the automated line works
- The sofa travels up an inclined conveyor to machine level. Before any packaging is applied, an integrated scale records the net weight and sends it directly to the client’s ERP system.
- The product passes through the automatic bubble wrap unit, where bubble film is cut to size and wrapped around the sofa, with the back of the film laminated for maximum surface protection.
- On the following conveyor, an operator can add cardboard corner protectors where needed to shield fragile edges.
- The sofa enters the ring of the Spinner 1800S BN and is wrapped in stretch film under automatic tension control, for a tight, consistent pack.
- On the outfeed conveyor scale, the system records the gross weight and sends the packing list data to the factory’s ERP software.
- At the end of the line, a tilting conveyor rotates the packed sofa by 85 degrees, so a single operator can slide it upright onto a pallet for dispatch.
The results
Packaging time fell from almost 10 minutes to 55 seconds per sofa, and the packaging team was reduced from 25 to 3 operators. Every pack now has the same wrapping quality, and net and gross weights are recorded automatically for each sofa.