The new Bespoke concept from HAVER & BOECKER Machinery Division and food specialist Behn + Bates brings together all services related to customized bags. From customer-specific bag consulting to the development of a bag design that matches the customer's brand message and to the sale of the bags - the aim is always to design the packaging that ideally meets the respective customer requirements. The decisive factors are the product to be filled and the optimum filling technology because product, packaging, and machine technology form a multivariable unit known as the packing triangle.
The bespoke tailoring of a suit was used as an analogy during the presentation at the ACHEMA 2024. “With bespoke suits, you can get your concepts fully transformed into reality,” explains Marta Bortolotti, PROcheck Segment Manager Consumables. “Bespoke clothing requires a great deal of accuracy and precision when it comes to design and size. In fact, bespoke suits are tailored to your body and individually customized in accordance with your ideas and concepts.” Just as a tailor sizes up a suit, HAVER & BOECKER and BEHN + BATES guide their customers through the process in order to get exactly the packaging that best suits them and therefore theirs end-customers.
Benefits of a bespoke bag
As a bespoke tailor recognizes the importance of stitching and assembling the parts of the model, the experts of both companies know the value of proper glue-positioning and folding in a consistent paper bag. Bespoke bags from HAVER & BOECKER and BEHN + BATES reduce costs from poor bag performance and equipment shutdown, thus leading to greater productivity and fewer complaints from end customers.
Both companies offer a comprehensive solution for bagging needs, including design, fine-tuning, supply, and improvement. With the experience and know-how in handling over 20,000 different bulk products and bag types, and by knowing the products to be filled, they can choose the best packing system and manage the ideal packaging.
Their global network ensures that they can source materials and provide service worldwide.
Step-by-Step: Process in developing a bespoke bag
- Consultation: The team studies and analyzes the entire process.
- Testing: The HAVER & BOECKER Institute experts test the products to be filled.
- Customized Bag Report: They suggest the optimum filling systems and define the most suitable packing solution according to the overall process.
- FAT Bags: The experts fine-tune the requirements of FAT together with the filling system.
- Starting up, supply and service: They carry out the final adjustments and provide the customers with the complete bag supply. They take care of everything around the bag, and complete logistics are included.
HAVER & BOECKER offers three different Operation Support Models that provide services ranging from bag delivery to maintenance to individual training, depending on customer requirements.