Custom friction feeders and packaging systems
Longford International is the world leader in the design and manufacturing of high performance friction feeders and custom turnkey collating and packaging systems. Established in 1969 Longford has over 18,000 feeders/systems in over 80 countries around the world.
We can easily integrate our feeders with any OEM equipment such as shrink wrappers, flow wrappers, cartoners, label presses, ink jet printers, vision systems, bar code readers etc.
Our feeders and systems are easily customised for any application/product and are recognised as having the lowest long term cost of ownership in the industry.
Friction feeders for pharmaceutical packaging & printing
Longford has been designing and manufacturing custom feeders for the pharmaceutical packaging industry for over 40 years. Longford feeders are used extensively for the feeding and validation of pharmaceutical leaflets, insertion of syringes, scoops, desiccants as well as full track and trace systems for both cartons and leaflets. All Longford feeder systems easily integrate with any new or existing OEM packaging system as well as ancillary products such as printers, bar code readers and vision systems.
Longford has been designing and manufacturing custom feeders for the pharmaceutical printing industry for over 40 years. Longford feeders are used extensively for tipping of PI's onto cartons, feeding booklets onto a web for ECL creation, Gluing PI's together for Piggyback PI's and our newest Track and Trace Systems. All Longford pharmaceutical style feeders can come with 100% validation of bar/lot codes as well as inline reject devices, printers etc and all Longford feeders and systems easily integrate to any new or existing OEM equipment.
Feeding systems for food packaging
Longford feeding systems are used extensively throughout the food packaging industry. Whether you need to feed a "U" board, parchment paper, coupons, spice packs, sauce packs, three dimensional products Longford has a feeder solution for you. Our feeders easily integrate to any new or existing VFFS/HFFS, shrink wrapper, cartoner or custom packaging system.
Feeders and collation systems for carton printing
Longford has been designing and manufacturing custom feeders and collation systems for the carton printing industry for over 40 years. From tipping leaflets and coupons onto cartons prior to folding, large collation systems for carton blanks and our new "track and Trace System" Longford has your solution. Longford feeders and systems easily integrate with any folder gluers, windowing machines, wrappers, cartoners, printers and vision systems.
Label printing feeders
Longford has been designing and manufacturing custom feeders for the label printing industry for over 40 years. Longford feeders are used extensively for the feeding of booklets onto a web for the creation of Extended Content Labels (ECL). Longford feeders can easily integrate with any web/label press or offline finishing system.