Tavil: Using automation to combat cost inflation in packaging
17 May 2022 | Tavil
Spanish packing and palletizing technology company Tavil says that despite market inflation and raw material cost increases hitting industry everywhere, now is the time to invest in new technology. We speak to the company’s regional sales manager for North America, Alberto Carrera, at IFFA 2022 in Frankfurt, Germany. He tells us why packaging companies need to spend more on automation to save on long-term costs.
This is Louis Kur Langston for CNS Media.
We're live at IFFA.
I'm here with Alberto Carrera, regional sales manager for North America at Tavi.
Hi there.
Hi, nice to meet you all.
What is it that Tavi is showcasing today?
What we are showing here it's our backing end of the line solutions, starting from the very beginning with the forming of the carton till the very end, which is the palletizing.
Wrapping, labeling, and all the way to the storage through the AGV systems.
Now our core business and what makes us different in the market is the multi-format technology.
This is our core business and this is what gives us a good strength in the market.
And have you got any new innovations that you're showcasing here at the moment?
Yes, what we have brought this time finally as a really official thing that it's already on the market but not as of today, which is the HGB systems, autonomous trolley that takes the pallet from one side to the other, all over the factory from production to the storage, and it's a system that we are presenting properly this year.
And what are the challenges that are facing as a company at the moment?
It's, as you know, it's a very changing market in all the sense, but our technology is specialized on that first challenge, which is the flexibility and the change of formats in the market and the new trends.
This is what all our technology focuses on.
Which is having the chance to bring new formats every day without the cost.
That's our main thing.
And this is done through automation.
Sorry, is this done through automation?
Yes, in automation.
At the end of the day, not just our box formers, but also the loading systems, the labeling, the palletizers, everything, they are focused on that specific.
Trend which is the flexibility, new formats, new products, new poetizer systems, everything is focused on that with the cost increases, the inflation, raw material supply issues.
Is Tavel's machinery here an answer to that for customers?
Yes, of course, as everyone else, we've been hit on that.
That is a fact.
All the components and raw materials has increased a lot during the last years through many different reasons that we all know.
But at the end of the day, I think right now is the time to invest in this type of systems of machinery and automation.
Because what we are doing here is you might have today, yes, an increase of cost because it's an investment, but it's not a waste, it's an investment, meaning within the next time, year, month, depending on each project, you will have a payback for certainty.
So this is something that even in the inflation we strongly believe is the new trend and the numbers are backing us up on this point.
Thank you very much.
My pleasure.
