Haworth Furniture (Shanghai) Co., Ltd
Customer Background (About the Client)
Headquartered in Holland, Michigan, USA, Haworth is a world-renowned, global manufacturer of premium office furniture. Haworth has been successfully operating across China and the Asia-Pacific region for over 20 years, with its state-of-the-art manufacturing facility established in the Shanghai Waigaoqiao Free Trade Zone in 1997.
The Packaging Challenge (The Demands)
- High Product Diversity & Wide Size Spectrum: The client’s furniture product line features a vast variety of components with a massive dimension variance, demanding extreme machine versatility.
- Ergonomic & Labor Reduction Demands: The heavy weight of large furniture panels and desk surfaces imposed an urgent need to reduce heavy manual handling and physical labor fatigue.
- 24/7 Heavy-Duty Continuous Operation: High-volume manufacturing lines require industrial-grade stability and an exceptionally low failure rate during long-duration, non-stop production cycles.
- Stringent Aesthetic & Anti-Scratch Standards: Furniture wood panels and veneered surfaces are highly sensitive to cosmetic defects. The packaging solution must completely eliminate risks of surface scratching, scuffing, or transport damage.
- Huanqi’s Engineered Solution (The Solution)
- High-Versatility Straight-Line Sleeve Sealing System: To address the wide size spectrum and high cosmetic standards of the panels, conventional packaging methods lack the required compatibility. We deployed our Automatic Straight-Line Infeed Sleeve Sealing and Wrapping Machine utilizing heavy-duty PE (Polyethylene) shrink film.
- Toolless Quick-Changeover Technology: The machine features highly intuitive adjustments, enabling operators to achieve complete product dimension switchovers in just a few minutes, maximizing OEE (Overall Equipment Effectiveness) and line stability.
- High-Strength PE Film Surface Protection: The resilient PE film wrap provides superior load-bearing strength, serving as an exceptional anti-scratch and puncture-resistant shield that dramatically cuts material loss and transit scuffs.
- Aesthetic & Environmental Barrier: Compared to traditional manual wrapping, this automated line delivers crystal-clear film transparency, sleek bundle aesthetics, and consistent moisture-proof and dust-proof protection, while significantly driving down both total packaging costs and manual labor overheads.
