Styropack

For industries that supply goods to customers, finding a packaging product that will protect your stock until it reaches the customer can mean the difference between business success and failure, and in some cases life or death. Styropack provides packing solutions for the safe transportation of products across a diverse range of sectors, from white goods and seedling trays, to fresh fish and human transplant organs. Based at five sites across the UK, the business relies on the efficiency of its plant operations to meet customer demand.

Sowga has worked with Styropack for over 30 years, supporting the company's expansion by installing machinery necessary to the day-to-day running of the business. The equipment within its moulding factories runs on a variety of services, including steam, water, compressed air and vacuum. Therefore, new installations or upgrades require a service provider with an in-depth knowledge of these mediums, who can guarantee compatibility with all associated systems. 

Styropack is renowned for its expanded polystyrene (EPS) packaging trays and boxes, created by moulding machines of various sizes for mass manufacture and bespoke products. Sowga's familiarity with Styropack's plant operations ensures a continuity and efficiency that has helped our client's business go from strength to strength. 

New installation work is led by our Mechanical Manager Sam Barron and supported by a number of Sowga engineers with extensive industry experience.

Over our 30-year history the following work has been undertaken:

• Establishing a factory in Grimsby 
• Installing several new moulding machines across different sites
• Moving machinery from factory to factory
• Work on boilers, pipework and sidestream filtration
• General modifications and servicing to plant equipment across all factories
• Installation of an Erlenbach polystyrene moulding machine in the Ford factory, including steam, compressed air, hot and cold water and associated systems 
• Decommissioning factory sites
• Moving a 15-ton machine from Howden in North Yorkshire to Ford in West Sussex

Gary Fenton, Engineering Co-ordinator at Styropack, says of the partnership:

"Sowga has been working for Styropack for many years and has contributed to the growth and expansion of the company over that period of time. The knowledge they have in the steam industry has been so valuable over the years. We find them quick and efficient. Sowga engineers are always going out of their way to do a good job, and are happy to assist in other areas to help finish the project on time. When using Sowga there are no big challenges, everything clicks into place."

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