St. Johns Packaging, headquartered in Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu, Quebec (about 50 kilometres southeast of Montreal), is now running a Brandtjen & Kluge ComFold for the production of custom pouches and bags in its Greensboro, North Carolina plant.
The plant will use its new standalone Kluge system to create a bottom fold on film-laminated bags.
The addition of a bottom fold to a laminate bag, according to the companies, converts it from a pinch-bottom bag to one that has a fifth panel. The resulting flat bottom creates a surface to apply printing that is visible to consumers when the bags are stacked. This fifth panel can also be applied to smaller bags allowing them to stand upright on the store shelf.
“Putting a bottom fold on our laminated bags and pouches allows us to offer our customers a different kind of package and allows us to compete with multi-wall bags,” stated Tim Mages, General Manager at the Greensboro plant. “Adding a Kluge bag folder to our asset base has allowed us to provide a more complete portfolio and an expanded product offering in the very competitive business of pet-food marketing.”
St. Johns Packaging was founded in 1954 and remains as a family-owned business headquartered in Quebec. The company began took control of the operation Greensboro after acquiring North State Flexibles in 2009. St. Johns Packaging also expanded into China in 2007 with the opening of a greenfield plant.
While the Greensboro plant focuses on the pet-food industry, St. Johns Packaging describes itself as a vertically integrated manufacturer of flexible packaging products sold to both food and consumer product companies.
St. Johns’ new Kluge ComFold configured for fifth-panel pouch and bag folding.
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