Packaging & Printing Machinery

Packaging lines generate the most awkward machining demand there is: a new bottle shape means a whole format set — star wheels, guides, grippers, nozzles — in quantities of one to a dozen, needed before the product launch date that marketing already announced. The parts are geometrically fussy rather than tight: profiles derived from a container CAD model, contact surfaces that must not scuff a label, and edges that have to be genuinely deburred because they touch product. Wash-down changes the material rules — 316L and Delrin instead of whatever is cheapest — and any food-contact part drags in FDA or EC 1935/2004 material documentation the machinist has to obtain rather than assert. Meanwhile the line is down, so a two-week quote turnaround is itself the problem.

EC 1935/2004 / FDA CFR 21

Food-contact compliance is a property of the material you specify, not of machining. We source to your approved grade and pass through the supplier declaration rather than issuing one ourselves.

ISO 9001

We understand line builders expect ISO 9001-grade repeatability on format parts — the second set has to drop in exactly like the first, years later.

EN 10204 3.1

We support EN 10204 3.1 certificates on 316L wash-down and product-contact components where the alloy is what the hygiene case rests on.

We understand and support these requirements; certification and documentation scope is confirmed per order.