Add Value With Faster Handling

Langenpac NV has over 20 years experience of producing ‘robust and reliable’ packaging machinery for a wide variety of consumer good products. Specialising in solving challenging packaging projects, Langen is enjoying a period of positive growth in partnership with many of its blue chip clients.

Langenpac NV was established in the Netherlands in 1988 as a daughter company of Toronto-based Langen Inc, which by that time already had 30 years of expertise in producing packaging machines. In 1997, both companies became part of Molins PLC with the aim of generating a stronger focus in their own territories, with them joining forces again in 2008 under the Langen Packaging Group name.

Throughout the company’s history, Langenpac has been dedicated to providing packaging solutions that enhance its customers’ total packaging process. Their long-term aims are for greater globalisation of their brand, exemplary service and support for their customers which has always been and continues to be the driving force behind their growth.

Cartoning systems adding value

As a leading European supplier of cartoning systems, the Langenpac packaging machinery portfolio is designed for minimum operator intervention through sophisticated automation. Committed to adding value to their customers’ businesses by offering a competitive edge to their packaging processes. Langen’s quick, reliable and repetitive format change is an example of this, combined with minimum service sensitive machine design and construction.

Service requirements are also kept to an absolute minimum, so that the customer’s own service team can easily handle first line issues quickly and effectively. Service training and remote support are also offered as key elements to their after sales support so they can quickly be on site if needed.

With its best selling products currently the easy-to-service Chinook, Vento and LRC top load series cartoners, Langenpac develops machinery after close cooperation with its customers. The aim is always to deliver exactly what the customer requires and, as Langenpac’s client list includes some of the biggest household names in the consumer products sector, it’s often called upon to create solutions for very demanding projects.

Langenpac have a reputation for innovative and robust solutions for challenging packaging projects, thanks to their ability to offer higher speed product handling. The collations needed for this are not straight forward and this is Langenpac’s real strength. It’s no longer enough to simply offer machines that are capable of cartoning processes – Langenpac differentiate themselves by creating quicker product handling capabilities in different ways for different clients. It’s a bespoke process that gives great rewards.

Building relationships

This product development process is understandably time consuming, with some Langenpac client collaborations taking years to get to the installation phase. It is clear that this investment of time and money delivers a positive outcome for both parties, however, because the intense understanding of its customer requirements ensures the packaging machinery is perfectly integrated. Langenpac don’t just create and integrate packaging machinery for their clients’ current demands, they look at their current machinery, at past solutions that may be suitable in some way and then work together to make a choice that best suits both their current applications and the future aims for their production lines. Langenpac machinery isn’t just for one moment in time, it’s an almost future-proof packaging solution for clients’ changing needs.

The extensive technical capabilities at Langenpac’s facilities are utilised by its global design team. Using the very latest 3D engineering software, the design process is a carefully-controlled use of the knowledge and experience of the team. The Langen Packaging Group has around 200 employees, equally spread between Canada and the Netherlands and, as a Group, has the capacity to offer single cartoning applications or full end-of-line packaging, including turnkey solutions with other upstream machinery.

Investment and development

Investment in people and equipment underpins the Group’s continued success. Langenpac is looking forward to the introduction of a new cartoner machine in Q3 2010, which is only one illustration of an important phase of technical development, with the majority customer-specific and not to be disclosed. This represents the Langenpac commitment to establishing and maintaining long-term relationships with its clients by developing packaging machinery solutions that give them the extra edge in an often exclusive contract.

The next twelve months will also see Langenpac focus on growing its presence in Asia Pacific and Australasia to complement its existing strength in European and North American markets.