Keymac first launched the K101 Sleever in 2005. It was the first machine on the market designed to run pre-glued sleeves and was targeted at the ready meals market. Since then it has been joined in the range by the 80 packs per minute K101S and the K101XL for larger packs.

Pack Expo East starts tomorrow in Philadelphia. The Keymac team will be there in Booth #1531 with a KCM2 Semi Automatic End Load Cartoner. We look forward to discussing your cartoning and sleeving projects with you next week!

USED K101 FOR SALE.
Keymac (UK) has a used K101 Sleever for sale. The machine is fitted with stainless steel guarding (850mm tunnel guards still to be fitted) and a Mitsubishi control system (HMI, PLC, Servo Motor and Drives).

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Charlotte (NC) based Keymac Packaging Systems will be attending Pack Expo East for the first time in March in Philadelphia. We will be displaying a KCM2 Semi Automatic End Load Cartoner on Booth #1531.

Some of the Keymac team at the annual Christmas Party last week. We hope you are all enjoying the festive season

Bristol based Keymac Manufacturing Systems has put in place a machine stock build programme to shorten our lead times to customers. We now have Sleevers and Cartoners in build which are offered on short delivery times (subject to availability). Please contact us for details.

The PPMA Show 2023 has closed for another year. Thanks to all of the visitors , existing customers and suppliers who visited Keymac during the 3 day event. Thanks also to our Senior Engineers, Tomass and Mike, who provided support during the Show.

Day 2 at the PPMA Show 2023 on Stand B14. Please come and see us on the Keymac stand tomorrow to discuss your cartoning and sleeving requirements. Doors open at 09:30

Day one of the PPMA Show 2023 has started well with plenty of enquiries for Keymac's cartoning and sleeving machines. Our new look stand has generated a lot of complimentary comments and we are looking forward to the second day tomorrow.

Ready to roll! Keymac machines packed and loaded for their journey from Bristol to the NEC for this year's PPMA Show. See them unwrapped and running on Stand B14 from 26-28 September

Only 6 more sleeps until the PPMA Show 2023 at the NEC in Birmingham. Keymac will be there on a bigger and better stand and will be demonstrating the K101 Ready Meal Sleever and KIM Intermittent Motion Fully Automatic Cartoner. Here is a quick preview of the KIM's pre-ship test.

The end of a very successful Pack Expo in Las Vegas. A big "Thank You" 😀 from the Keymac Team to all the visitors who came to our booth to discuss their cartoning and sleeving requirements. We'll be getting in touch with you very soon!

Keymac is exhibiting at Pack Expo in Las Vegas this week in booth #7463. Please visit us to see the K101 Sleever, KCF Lock Former and KCCR Three Flap Carton Closer. The Charlotte based sales team is looking forward to discussing your projects with you.

Keymac would like to thank Newton Print for supplying the sleeves to run on its K101 Sleever at the PPMA Show at the NEC in September. See the sleeves and machine on stand B14 from 26 - 28 September 2023

Just 2 more days until Keymac's next show appearance at foodpro in Melbourne from 23-26 July. We will be demonstrating a K101 Sleever on our distributor's stand (Select Equip - Stand T30). Please come along to see the machine packing trays into pre-glued sleeves

To extend its product range to customers requiring end of line packaging machinery, Keymac is now working with Fipal Srl, who are based in Italy and have almost thirty years of experience in packaging machinery design and build.

The second of two KCM3 Fully Automatic End Load Cartoners being loaded for its short journey to a customer near Rotterdam in The Netherlands. Keymac has a strong presence in Benelux with its range of Sleeving machines and is now supplying Cartoners into this market.

This is the KCC Single Flap Carton Closer from Keymac. It's part of Keymac's range of Top Load Cartoners which include both Lock, Glue, Turn Over End and Hot Air Formers and Single and Three Flap Carton Closers. The machine featured was teamed up with a Double Head Glue Former.

A lot of interest in Keymac's K101 Sleever at Seoul Food 2023 in Kintex last week. More information is available from our distributor Vax Korea Ltd.

As we say Auf Wiedersehen to Interpack 2023, we are now finalising plans for Keymac's next show appearance at foodpro in Melbourne from 23-26 July. We will be demonstrating a K101 Sleever on our distributor's stand (Select Equip - Stand T30).

Ready to go! Keymac's stand at Interpack Dusseldorf (Hall 14 / D12) is ready for opening day tomorrow at 09:00. Please visit our experienced team to discuss your cartoning and sleeving requirements. We look forward to meeting both existing and new customers at the Show.

With just 20 days to go until Interpack 2023, our KCFG Carton Former has started its journey to Dusseldorf. You can see it in Hall 14 on stand D12 from 4-10 May.

Bristol based Keymac Packaging Systems is completing the build this week of the first of two KCM3 Fully Automatic End Load Cartoners for a customer in The Netherlands. The machines are due to ship in March

Keymac is counting down to the Interpack exhibition in May. We have not been in Dusseldorf since the last show in 2017 so are looking forward to a great show. See you in Hall 14!

Keymac has improved and updated its KIM3 Intermittent Motion End Load Cartoner to a 3 axis servo machine for speeds up to 40 cartons per minute. The first is due to ship from Keymac's US facility in Charlotte NC this week

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Keymac is seeing a huge increase in demand for its range of Top Load Cartoners in the USA and for its Sleevers all around the world. Check out our website for details

Bristol based Keymac Packaging Systems is expanding more into the cartoning machinery market. Keymac is currently building 2 Fully Automatic Cartoning machines for a customer in The Netherlands and a Carton Flap Sealer for a customer in Northern Ireland.

Keymac has been granted a patent on its K101 and K102 Sleeving machines which stack and sleeve trays or pots in pre-glued sleeves. The Sleever accepts trays in 2 lanes and stacks them before inserting them into a pre-glued sleeve.

Around 16 million ready meals and pots are sleeved on Keymac Sleevers around the world every week. That's why Keymac is the packaging machinery supplier of choice.

Another Keymac K101 Sleever being loaded for the start of its long voyage to South Australia. This one will be sleeving quiches and pies.

Plans finally become a reality! After building work delays, Keymac collected the keys for its second production factory on the Burnett Business Park site near Bristol today. Work will now start on equipping the unit over the next few weeks.

Today is the last day of Pack Expo in Chicago. The Keymac USA team is looking forward to welcoming visitors to Booth #N5660 to discuss your sleeving and cartoning requirements. It has been a very busy and productive show so far and we are anticipating a great last day

First day at Pack Expo Chigaco. Keymac's stand is ready to receive visitors to see the K101 Sleever, KCFG Carton Former and KCCR Three Flap Carton Closer. Please drop by Booth #N5660. Doors open today at 09:00!

Keymac Top Load Cartoning Line loaded and ready for its journey to a customer in Northamptonshire. The machines will be teamed up with a robotic loading cell which will fill the cartons, formed on the KCFG Carton Former, prior to being closed on the KCC Single Flap Closer.

Keymac USA is exhibiting a Top Load Cartoning Line (KCFG Carton Former and KCCR Three Flap Closer) and a K101 Sleeving machine on Booth #N5660. Please visit us to discuss your cartoning and sleeving requirements

Keymac's range of cartoning and sleeving machinery. Built in the UK and USA

Dismantling the stand at PPMA Total Show. It’s been a fantastic week at the NEC and we look forward to attending next year. Thanks to all who visited us to discuss their cartoning and sleeving projects and to PPMA for organising this event so professionally

Keymac's new stand is ready for visitors tomorrow at the PPMA Total Show at the NEC in Birmingham. On display on Stand B12 is a K101S Sleever and a KCFG Tray and Carton Former. The Show opens at 09:30!

Fully loaded and ready to go!. Keymac's machines are making their short journey to the NEC in Birmingham for this year's PPMA Total Show. Next time they'll be seen will be on Stand B12 in Hall 5. We're looking forward to the Show and to meeting both new and existing customers.

The PPMA Total Show is approaching quickly and Keymac is ready to welcome visitors to stand B12 to see a K101S Sleever and KCFG Carton Former in action. Sleeves to run on the K101S machine have just been manufactured for us by Newton Print and our thanks go to them for doing this

Charlotte based Keymac USA has signed up for the IBIE Show at the Las Vegas Convention Center. Please come and see us on Booth 5012 in the North Hall from 18 - 21 September. More details to follow closer to the Show.

Keymac is committed to reducing the use of plastics in packaging and supports World Oceans Day 8.6.22

Today is the first day of Seoul Food 2022 (7 - 10 June). Please visit us on Vax Korea's stand (2A302) to see the K101 Sleever and discuss your sleeving requirements with our team

Keymac USA has just completed the build of a servo driven intermittent motion cartoner to pack beverage cans.

Keymac is counting down to Auspack in Melbourne which runs from 17-20 May. We will be showing a K101S Sleever which will sleeve trays or pots at speeds up to 75 packs per minute Please visit us on stand BO55 (Select Equip) to discuss your sleeving and cartoning requirements.

Shipping machines by the container load! Yesterday we loaded four K101 Sleevers into a 40 foot container bound for Australia. The machines will be sleeving ready meals at speeds up to 60 packs per minute.

Ready for the IPPE Show in Atlanta to start today. We have a K101 Sleever on display on booth C11067 which can sleeve trays and pots at speeds up to 60 packs per minute. Perfect for sleeving protein and ready meals.

Keymac USA is exhibiting at IPPE in Atlanta, GA from January 25-27. On display on Booth C11067 will be a Keymac K101 Sleever for sleeving trays and pots at speeds up to 60 packs per minute. Currently over 15 million products are sleeved on Keymac Sleevers every week worldwide.

K101XL Sleevers installed in January at a customer's facility in Michgan USA. Designed and built by Keymac USA in Charlotte NC. @packaging360g

Celebrating the festive season at a pub near Bath. Keymac staff enjoy a well deserved meal after shipping out a record number of machines in 2021 under challenging circumstances.

Ready meal sleeving on a K101S servo sleever at 75 packs per minute. We've been checking out 2 machines this week prior to being shipped out to Australia next week. On arrival they will be installed by our Melbourne based distributor, Select Equip.

Shipping out this week from Keymac USA in Charlotte, NC, is the first of four KCM2 Semi Automatic End Load Cartoners for U.S Waffle Company Inc based in Liberty, South Carolina. The machine has an extended 3m product load area and pocketed infeed conveyor. #packaging #machinery

Keymac's agent for the Benelux area, Het Packhuys, is exhibiting at Empack in Brussels, Belgium. A K101 Sleever, sleeving apples in a cardboard tray and sleeve, is available on their stand C084 for demonstration. The show closes today.

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Keymac is proud to be supporting Pink Lady in its initiative to promote cardboard packaging for its products by supplying Sleeving Machines for its 2x2 format pack.

In response to the high demand for its range of cartoning and sleeving machinery, Keymac in the UK has taken on additional production space at its Gypsy Lane site which doubles its current production area.

A big THANK YOU to everyone who visited us at Pack Expo this week. We really appreciate your interest in Keymac's Sleeving and Cartoning machinery range and will respond to your enquires so soon as we get back to Charlotte! Our next show is IPPE Show in Atlanta in January 2022.

Please call into our booth at Pack Expo Las Vegas to see the K101F Sleever. If you can't make it, this is what you are missing

Today is the last day at Pack Expo Las Vegas. Our team is here to discuss your sleeving and cartoning needs on booth #5446. We are looking forward to your visit

Crawford Packaging in Canada can supply and service the full range of Keymac Cartoners and Sleevers. linkedin.com/company/crawfo…

Keymac USA is counting down to Pack Expo 2021 in Las Vegas. On display in Booth 5446 will be a K101 Sleever, KCFG Carton Glue Former and a KCLF Crash Lock Base Former. The Show runs from 27-29 September. But why wait to see the machines? Today we are pre-viewing the KCLF machine.

Packing apples in Belgium on a Keymac K101 Sleever. Zero per cent plastic makes 100 per cent sense!

The Best of Both Worlds
Keymac Packaging Systems has launched a servo driven version of the already successful K101XL Sleever. The new machine offers higher speeds and can run larger sleeves and trays than the hugely successful K101. This makes the machine extremely flexible

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Cartoning experts Keymac Packaging Systems in Bristol have just finished checking out a KCM Cartoner for packing a meat free product.

Keymac USA, based in Charlotte NC, has signed a lease to double its production and assembly space at its Arrowridge Blvd site. The planned expansion is in response to an unprecedented demand for the Keymac range of Cartoners and Sleevers.

High demand for Keymac's range of cartoning and sleeving machinery has necessitated weekend working in order to get machines built and shipped to customers worldwide. Thanks go to our fitters for supporting the company during these extremely busy and difficult times.

Keymac is now working with Gutenberg Solutions in Malta for sales of its comprehensive range of sleeving and cartoning machinery. Gutenberg is a major carton manufacturer in Malta and will now be able to offer machines on which to run their cartons

Almost ready for air freighting to Canada, Keymac's K101 Sleever will soon be shipping out to Quebec to pack protein products in trays at speeds up to 60 packs per minute @crawfordpkging

Face Mask Packing
Keymac has just shipped a KCLF Crash Lock Base Carton Former to a company in Northern Ireland to pack face masks. The KCLF is a simple machine which opens a crash lock base carton at speeds up to 30 packs per minute ready for filling and closing. @packaging360g

After 15 years Keymac is saying farewell to Geoff who is retiring at Christmas. Geoff has been with Keymac since it was started in 2005 and has worked as a service manager and senior fitter. We all wish Geoff well for his more than well deserved retirement.

In addition to our K101 Fresh Produce Sleever, Keymac also offers a Top Load solution whereby a tray with lid is formed from a single piece of board and then the lid closed after the produce has been loaded. Both solutions offer a 100% plastic free pack which makes 100% sense

@KeymacL has received an order for 5 K101 Sleeving machines from their agent in Australia. Thanks go to Select Equip for their hard work in securing the order to sleeve ready meals. The machines will be ready to ship in January 2021

@KeymacL is seeing a huge increase in demand for its range of Sleevers to pack vegan products. The vegan food sector is seeing growing demand for its products and many of the producers are investing heavily to increase production.

It's hard to find a ready meal, meat free or protein product on a supermarket shelf which has not been sleeved on a Keymac Sleeving machine. @KeymacL supplies its machines to the leading food suppliers to all UK supermarkets.

@KeymacL has received another order for a K101 Sleever to pack apples in a plastic free pack. The producer is based in Belgium where Keymac machines are already operational. 0% plastic makes 100% sense @EmballagesMag @Fruit_Logistica

Keymac Packaging Systems, based in the UK and USA, is a supplier of sleeving and cartoning machinery to the meat processing and packing industries. #meatprocessing @Foodex

In line with its planned expansion, Bristol based Keymac has taken on additional space at its Gypsy Lane site. The new area allows for increased production of its range of sleeving and cartoning machines in order to keep up with demand from UK and overseas customers.

Après peu de temps en tant qu'agent de vente et de service de Keymac en France, MBC (Biarritz et Lille) a vendu son premier K101 Sleever pour emballer des fruits frais dans un emballage 100% recyclable. Merci à Jean-Charles et à son équipe.
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Keymac USA has just completed building a KCM1 Wraparound Sleever for Brooklyn based Les Trois Petits Cochons. The machine will pack their Egg Bite and Pâté products in a 2 crease sleeve which allows the vacuum packed product to protrude through an opening in the front panel.

Packaging is like people. It comes in many different shapes & sizes. @KeymacL understands this and designs its machines to handle a wide range of trays made of different materials and sleeves of different shapes and sizes. Please call us for more information.

@KeymacL has just installed 2 K101 machines to sleeve Slimming World's range of frozen weight management programme meals.

What's better than some kiwis? Kiwis in a 100% recyclable pack of course! See the new K101S Sleever from Keymac.

Here is Keymac's newly launched K101S Sleever packing kiwis at 75 packs per minute into a 100% recyclable cardboard pack. 0% plastic makes 100% sense!! @Fruchtnews @FPJlive @FranceFoodPack @FruitAttraction

Although it's disappointing that the PPMA Show 2020 has been postponed until September 2021, @KeymacL supports this decision and thanks the PPMA for putting the health and wellbeing of its members and their customers first. We look forward to being at the NEC next year!
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Fresh produce packing without plastic. Please contact us to see how we are helping packers to reduce the amount of plastic used in packaging. @FruitAttraction