Packing The Harvest

Much of the huge cargoes of apples leaving Nelson on overseas vessels are now packed in brightly-printed cardboard containers. These packs, with a layer of corrugated paper inside to act as an absorber, are often preferred to the wooden Case. So popular have they become that Nelson Fibre Containers Ltd, at Saxtons Road, Stoke, are manufacturing 320,000 of them. We visited the factory last month to see these, and other types of cardboard boxes, in the making.

A sheet of corrugated board enters this printer/slotter where it is trimmed and made ready for stapling (Alister Gregg, plant foreman, keeps a wary eye on its progress).

Malcolm Sears and Reub Curtis pack the telescopic containers in bundles

The containers are stapled in this automatic stapler operated by Mrs Margaret Evans and Geoff Hardman

Huge stacks of the finished article and the raw material cover a big part of the factory's floor. Here Joe Barrett prepares to shift a stack of cartons.

Mrs Hazel McKenzie operating a stitcher used for the making of waxed boxes which will soon hold fish.

A smaller type of stitcher is also used for securing the sides of cartons.

Manager John Winlove (right) and John Williams discuss a technical point.

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The Nelson Photo News

No 53 : April 3, 1965

Packing The Harvest