POS-Pack is the new limited company launched in April by Nene sales director David Lugmayer as its parent considered dropping its POS department. The two companies still share 4,500sqm premises in Northampton and POS-Pack provides Nene with its services, though it will eventually begin seeking other clients and new premises.

The £85,000 Felix gluer arrived at the start of the summer courtesy of kit supplier Newtown Packaging and will aid with a variety of POS-related applications including cardboard displays, bespoke boxes and product bins.

It automates a process previously performed by hand at Nene and POS-Pack.

Lugmayer, who currently works at both companies, said: “When we looked out to market, our main option was the Bickers gluers of which there are a lot installed all over the country, but we are among the first few to take the Felix.

“We chose it because the service levels provided by Newtown are very good and the Felix has a few extra bits of tech that give it an edge. For example, you can take a picture of your media and ‘draw’ the glue lines onscreen, which is a lot fiddlier on the Bickers devices.

“It allows us to do those intricate jobs which we could never have done by hand, as well as speeding up our process so that jobs that could have taken two weeks or more can now be done in one.”

Running both hotmelt and cold PVA glues, the CNC-controlled Lynx Felix XY runs at an application speed up to 2.5m/sec and can run any shape, pattern or design. Its PhotoPath capabilities are backed up by unlimited saving for repeat jobs.

Supplied in the UK by Newtown from Redditch, the machines are manufactured by Lynx in Warsaw, Poland.

POS-Pack has established itself as Nene’s POS provider by taking on the eight staff that operated in its old department. Nene Packaging now employs 28 members of its own staff and turns over £4.6m.

The two companies run in-house digital and screen printing, as well as die-cutting and gluing.