Leading sports fashion retailer, JD, has embarked upon a programme of investment into Sparck Technologies’ advanced right-size auto-boxing systems. After the installation of one of Sparck’s CVP Impack systems at the retailer’s Rochdale DC in 2021, the company has now taken delivery of a top of the range CVP Everest, as part of JD’s full-automated Ecommerce in Derby.
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The CVP Impack at JD’s Rochdale facility has been successfully packing online orders at a rate of up to 500 boxes per hour – automatically creating made-to-measure boxes precisely to the optimum dimensions required for each and every order.
Confidence in the efficiency of Sparck’s right-size boxing technology, gained at the Rochdale DC, led the retailer to upgrade to a high-speed CVP Everest machine – capable of creating and boxing 1100 single or multiple-item orders per hour – at its new Derby fulfilment centre. The latest investment by JD is part of an on-going partnership with Sparck Technologies, with exciting ‘market-leading’ innovations to come.
Commenting on the decision to invest in high-speed fit-to-size packaging technology, Paul Stokes, Head of Automation and Engineering at JD, says: “Having experienced the speed, reliability and performance of Sparck Technologies’ CVP Impack machine at our Rochdale DC, we are confident that right-size boxing technology is a key capability for the future – offering major benefits in fulfilling ecommerce orders in a cost-efficient and sustainable way. We believe this is the start of an exciting partnership with Sparck.”
The CVP packaging systems are highly flexible, capable of producing tailor-made packages at speed, whilst being able to cater for single or multi-item orders with differing product profiles.
