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A DV E RT I S E M E N T

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Cut Out

Netting Waste

for Good.

Waste Not, Want Not
It's hard to talk about modern manufacturing these days without uttering the words
"waste reduction" or "cost elimination." In fact, if an initiative does not achieve these
goals, it simply won't happen. This is especially true of new equipment purchases.
We all know that company decision makers are not easily persuaded to buy a new
machine just to upgrade old and inefﬁcient machinery. It needs to be leaner, meaner
and provide quick payback.

Tipper Tie just released the
TN®-2001 machine, which
is designed to eliminate
labor and netting waste
by automating the entire

One area of manufacturing that desperately needs these lean manufacturing
principles applied is food processing and packaging with netting. Facilities that
process items with precut pieces of netting know all too well the enormous amount
of waste that is created with excess netting tails. Dollars are just thrown away
unnecessarily with each netted package. Well, apparently the people at Tipper Tie
have been at the drawing board designing a machine that will remedy this very
situation and cut out netting waste completely.

netting and clipping cycle.
Dennis May of new product
development at Tipper Tie
adds, "When companies can

Automation Is the Name of the Game
The engineers at Tipper Tie just released a revolutionary machine, the TN®-2001,
that is speciﬁcally designed to reduce labor, produce a tight package, and only use
the speciﬁc amount of netting necessary for each product. By automating the entire
netting and clipping cycle, this double clipper eliminates netting waste altogether
and reduces labor by up to three workers (depending on your operation). So, netting
waste associated with excess product tails from "one size ﬁts all" precut and clipped
netting pieces are no longer an issue. Dennis May of new product development at
Tipper Tie adds, "When companies can save a penny for every inch of netting they
keep out of the waste bin, the savings add up
quickly. In fact, payback on this machine
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can come within a year or even less."
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of netting they keep out of
the waste bin, the savings
add up quickly. In fact,

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payback on this machine

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can come within a year or

The Tipper Netter® TN®-2001 can net
and clip most products such as large
bone-in hams, small briskets, and
molded items. And, it accepts all
types of rucked netting including
cotton, elastic, plastic and poly.
The design and operation are also
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quite
simple. An operator places
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the
product
on an optional int
from
feed conveyor, which sends the
item through a tapered chute
with rucked netting and onto
the clipping tray. When this is
complete, the package is correctly
sized and tightly clipped with only the
necessary netting used.

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For more information on the TN®-2001, contact A.R.
Mofﬁtt at 919.362.8811 or amofﬁtt@tippertie.com. z
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