Packaging

Sponmech are recognised as key suppliers to the packaging industry for their machine safety compliance services and machinery guarding manufacture capabilities.

Sponmech design and manufacture bespoke packaging machine guards and access platforms to packaging manufacturers.

Why does the packaging sector need machine guards?

Contact with heavy rolls and fast-moving webs can pose a significant risk of serious or even fatal injuries. Many paper-making machines have long service lives and remain in operation despite being built before current safety standards and regulations were established. Additionally, over the years, numerous machines have been altered or upgraded without the installation of proper safety guarding.

Packaging manufacturers have a legal and moral obligation to ensure that their machines and processes are safe and compliant for their operators to use. Non-compliance can be costly for businesses with spot visits from the HSE on the rise.

Luckily, Sponmech are here to help. We can provide PUWER 98 inspections and reports at cost for companies who are unsure how safety-compliant their machine and processes are. Our NEBOSH certified engineers travel UK-wide at cost to survey your machinery.

Create a safer, more productive workplace with Sponmech Safety Systems Solutions

With 40+ years of machine safety experience, Sponmech is a trusted UK manufacturer of machinery guarding systems for packaging environments and factories.

Our engineers are NEBOSH certified and our hands on industry experience sets us apart from other guarding companies because there is literally no machine that we haven’t guarded before! 

Standards & Compliance

For your machinery to be PUWER 98 compliant, we need to see copies of your PUWER 98 survey, or we can do this for you at cost. All machinery guarding designed and manufactured by Sponmech come with certificates of conformity, are fully HSE compliant and where the application requires it, will also be CE marked.

Our machine guarding systems comply with the following standards:

2006/42/EC

BS EN ISO 14120:2015

BS EN ISO 12100:2003+A1:2009

The Provision and use of Work Equipment Regulations 1998 (P.U.W.E.R 98)*

*Subject to provision of a suitable PUWER 98 Risk Assessment

All of our engineers are accredited, safety trained and all carry national safety passports.

Types of machine guarding for the Industrial Packaging Sector

Sponmech can 3D CAD design any packaging machinery guarding system.

We have manufactured and installed acoustic enclosures around very large and noisy packaging machines, we’ve successfully guarded palletizers and we’ve created safety guarding for labelling machines.

Other machinery guarding solutions for this sector have also included conveyor guarding, access safety fencing systems and barriers.  

We will ensure that your guarding is compliant with all relevant British standards for machinery guarding. We will also always do our best to ensure that your new guarding system does not hinder production or manufacture.

Sponmech can also arrange the electrical integration of your machinery guarding. To quote for this, we ask you to fill in one of our questionnaires. Please get in touch to find out more.