Strapping machines for Naraina Industrial Area

A consignment that is counted by a stranger

A part load booked with a transporter is unloaded, tallied, restacked and reloaded before it reaches your customer. Every one of those steps is a chance for a box to go missing, and for the shortage to become your problem to prove.

The answer is to stop sending boxes and start sending units. Four cartons strapped into one block are one item on the tally, not four, and a block that has been opened shows it. Most of the shortage arguments in this market are about single cartons that were never strapped to anything.

A semi automatic strapping machine is the ordinary answer here. The operator pushes the strap round, the machine tensions and welds it, and the tension is the same on the last bundle of the day as the first — which a hand tool cannot honestly promise.

Set the tension to hold the stack square rather than to bite into it. On a light carton, a strap pulled too hard cuts the top edge and the block loses its shape at the first restack.

Marking, which does more here than any machine

In a transport godown your consignment is identified by what is written on the outside of it and nothing else. The docket is in an office; the goods are on a floor.

Mark on two adjacent faces, not one, because half your boxes will be stacked with the marked face against a wall. Keep the mark above the strap line so a strap does not sit across the consignee's name.

Where a consignment is more than one bundle, number them — 1 of 3, 2 of 3 — on the outside. It costs nothing and it settles a shortage argument in a minute rather than a week.

None of this is equipment. We are saying it because a customer who buys a strapping machine and keeps marking badly has fixed the smaller half of his problem.

Small plots, single phase, and where the machine will stand

Naraina's plots are small and most of the working space is already occupied. A strapping machine is not large, but it needs the operator to walk round two sides of the load, and that is the measurement people forget.

Tell us the space you have with the enquiry rather than the machine you had in mind. The table size is chosen from your carton, and where the floor is tight, the machine goes against a wall with the load coming to it rather than the other way round.

The electrical point is the other question. Ask your own electrician what is available at the spot where the machine will stand before the machine is ordered, not after — it is a small job when it is planned and an awkward one when it is not.

Buying from across the river

Faridabad to Naraina is a short haul, and a machine of this size travels as ordinary road freight.

Where you would rather see the machine run before deciding, say so with the enquiry and bring a carton of your own. Watching your own box being strapped settles more questions than a datasheet does.

We will give you the despatch date when you ask and the docket number once it moves. No delivery day is printed on this page because the honest answer depends on the route and the week.