Upgrade Your Equipment
Is your packaging equipment showing signs of wear or struggling to keep up with today's production demands? At BW Packaging, we help you get more from your existing machinery. Whether you're looking to improve efficiency, meet new safety standards, or adapt to changing product requirements, our upgrades and rebuilds extend the life and performance of your equipment without the cost of full replacement. We optimize your machinery to boost efficiency, increase capacity, and adapt to new materials, designs, or labels. Our experts analyze your needs, guide you through every step, and ensure seamless integration for long-term success.
Specific Services & Offerings
Whether you're looking to modernize controls, improve safety, or adapt to new product formats, our upgrade and rebuild services are designed to help you get more from the equipment you already trust. Our offerings include:
- Equipment Audits & Feasibility Assessments
We evaluate your current equipment to determine the most cost-effective upgrade or rebuild options based on your production needs. - Control System Upgrades
Replace outdated hardware and software with modern automation and servo technology to improve speed, fault recovery, and user interface. - Changeover Optimization
Reduce downtime and increase flexibility with engineered conversion kits that streamline changeovers and enable new product configurations. - Safety Enhancements
Bring your equipment up to today’s safety standards with mechanical and electronic upgrades that improve operator safety and ergonomics. - Product Conversion Kits
Adapt your existing machines to run new product sizes, formats, or group patterns—maximizing your investment and production flexibility. - Efficiency Improvements
Target specific performance gaps—like speed, maintenance interruptions, or changeover delays—with proven modifications that boost throughput.
Why Upgrade Your Equipment
Fighting Obsolescence
From Equipment Obsolescence to product Obsolescence, we want you to make the most out of your machine's life cycle, to avoid Capital Expenditure on New Equipment while enhancing machine productivity, reducing OpEx and keeping up with the market.
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Material & Packaging Transformation
New packaging needs, regulatory needs, PS and PET plastic transformation and sustainability goals are only some of the reasons why you might need to upgrade your machine to process different types of thermoformed packaging, lids or labels.
Read more about material transformation
Business Continuity
Every Plant Manager, Purchasing officer and Project Manager know that the Capital Expenditure on a packaging machine is nothing but a small percentage of the operations-related cost of production, assuring business continuity is fundamental for production margins.
Machine Audits and Diagnostic Visits
How to Deal with Equipment Obsolescence?
Your production lines profitability is highly dependent on your Packaging Equipment. Starting from the Technical Efficiency of your integrated line, to the accuracy of your dosing stations, up to the downtime cause by wear and tears. These are just some of the factors that influence your profitability, and our experts are trained to fully analyse the situation of your specific equipment.
Our knowledge owners have also compiled a list of common and relevant factors that highly influence the production lines profitability, download their e-book here below, or contact us to have an expert evaluating your Packaging Equipment.
DOWNLOAD OUR E-BOOKWhy Consider Material & Packaging Transformation?
Usually Material Transformation strategies respond to a identifiable, practical need for producers, whether it comes from different customer preferences, from regulatory changes, different recycling needs and so on. As any other major strategy shift, it represents a obstacle for the production line, which is usually obliged to consider new Capital Expenditure investments.
BW Packaging experts can provide solutions for material and packaging transformation on existing equipment for Form-Fill-Seal machines.
PET transformation on FFS machines
As sustainability becomes a top priority for food producers, adapting to more eco-friendly packaging solutions is essential. BW Packaging offers the capability to upgrade your existing ARCIL FFS machine to form and fill PET cups, providing a more sustainable alternative to traditional plastics. This transformation not only helps aligning with evolving global regulations but also to meet the consumer preferences.
Read more about our cutting solutions for PET or contact us to discuss material & packaging transformation.
CUTTING TOOL SOLUTIONSRequest an Upgrade
Ready to modernize your packaging equipment? Complete the upgrade and rebuild request form below. Our team typically responds within 48 hours.
