Wrapping machines for Kirti Nagar

Large, light, and easy to mark

A wardrobe panel weighs little and takes a great deal of space, and its surface is the product. Nothing that touches it may be abrasive, and nothing may press a hard point into it.

Film is good at this. It holds without a point load, it keeps dust off a polished surface, and it lets the handler see what he is carrying. What it does not do is protect a corner, and corners are where furniture is damaged.

Film plus corner protection is the pack. Board corners, foam profile or even folded scrap board under the film — any of them changes the outcome more than another two turns of film.

A box wrapping machine with top press suits flat-packed panels and cartons that must not bow, because the press holds the stack square while the film goes on.

Made-to-order, and no two loads the same

A workshop here may send a single dining table today and eight identical chairs tomorrow, and the packing has to cope with both.

That is an argument against automation and for a flexible setup: a wrapper the operator controls, a stock of protection material, and a person who knows what to protect. In this trade the operator's judgement is worth more than the machine's specification.

Where the same item does repeat — beds, chairs, standard cabinets — it is worth settling a standard pack for it and writing it down. A pack that changes with whoever is on duty produces claims that nobody can explain.

Photograph the agreed pack once and pin it up. It is the cheapest quality system a workshop can have.

Delivery in a market, not from a factory

Goods leave Kirti Nagar in tempos, on a lane that is busy from morning, and often to a customer's home rather than a warehouse.

That last point changes everything. A home delivery means the pack is opened in front of the customer, so it has to look right as well as work. Torn film and dirty board read as damage even when the furniture is perfect.

It also means the pack must come off cleanly. A pack that needs a blade near a polished surface will eventually meet a blade and a polished surface at the same time.

Wrap so that it can be unwrapped. Fewer, tighter turns of film with a clear starting point beat a heavily wrapped bundle nobody can open.

Storage, dust and a market with no room

Stock stands here longer than anyone plans, and it stands in dust. Film keeps dust off a finished surface, which in this market is half the reason to wrap at all.

Wrap before storage, not before despatch. A piece wrapped when it is finished stays clean; a piece wrapped as the tempo arrives has already collected everything it was going to collect.

Where stock is stacked, put something between pieces. Film against film slides, and a stack that slides is a stack that falls over in a lane at eight in the morning.

Keep the film rolls themselves covered and off the floor. Dusty film does not cling to itself, and most wrapping complaints in a dusty trade start there.

Buying for a market unit

Space is the constraint here, not money. Tell us what floor you can spare and we will tell you honestly whether a machine fits it — a wrapper needs the operator to walk round the load.

Where there is no room at all, the answer is a good hand wrapper, decent film and a trained person, and we will say so rather than sell you a machine that has nowhere to stand.

Prices are ex works from Faridabad with GST and freight quoted separately. Kirti Nagar is a short road move and the machine travels assembled.