The machine, which has tape applicators and feeder options, was installed at the Stone, Staffordshire-headquartered business earlier this month, and supplied by Lamina’s UK and Irish sales agent, Neil Thayer of Finishline Machinery.

Swanline chose the Lamina following an onsite demo, after finding it offered the best value of the options it considered.

The machine’s twin operator system allows two jobs to be run simultaneously, meaning left and right feeding can be glue/glue, tape/tape or glue/tape, size permitting.

The gluing element applies straight-line glue beads, making it suitable for simple boxes and display work. The blanks are hand fed with glue being applied automatically, then folded over and pressed, making a finished box.

The sheets for taping can also be hand fed but the device features a movable feeder for longer runs that can easily be attached.

Additionally, the twin tape heads are set in series meaning two lines of tape can be applied close to each other for e-commerce work.

Swanline production manager Dave Salt said: “We are looking forward to our new Lamina machine becoming a great asset with a small footprint. It will increase our POS gluing and taping capacity and by using the detachable feeder it can also be used for longer run e-commerce jobs.”

Last summer Irish-owned global packaging company Zeus acquired Swanline Group and its sister company BoxMart.

Established in 2001, Swanline Group is a trade-only supplier of paper-based materials, print and conversion services to the packaging and POS sectors. It has four purpose-built sites housing large-format, screen, and digital printing and converting operations, as well as extensive warehousing and distribution capabilities.