Robotics and automation specialists, RMGroup, announces a partnership with Lachenmeier, a brand of a leading global transit-packaging provider, Signode. The move will see RMGroup become the preferred supplier of stretch hood machines in the UK.

As part of the agreement, RMGroup will also be able to provide its UK customers with service and support for the stretch hood machines from its existing network of fully trained engineers.

Lachenmeier is one of the leading global packaging machine providers. In servicing a broad range of market segments and as part of Signode APT, its product portfolio includes high-quality stretch hood, orbital stretch wrap machines, and strapping equipment, all of which are manufactured with the aim of boosting operational efficiency and profitability.

“RMGroup is a young, dynamic company with a can-do attitude - a company who hold similar core values to the Lachenmeier business,” said Tony Butler, key account manager, Signode APT Europe. “We very much look forward to strengthening our ties as we move forward together.”

From its 50,000-sq-ft. mid-Wales factory, RMGroup designs, manufactures, and supplies a range of manual and automatic packaging machinery, packaging systems, and robotic automation to a customer base spanning food & beverage, horticultural, aggregates, chemicals, and agricultural industries. The company’s service packages cover a wide-ranging toolbox of support options and can be configured to suit customers’ equipment and requirements.

“Lachenmeier is an ideal partner for the RMGroup, providing us with an excellent range of stretch hooders to add to our portfolio in support of our UK customers,” said Edward Pugh, RMGroup’s sales director. “And with the ability to provide service and support for the machines, as opposed to Lachenmeier engineers having to fly in from Denmark, we can provide a reactive response service at very short notice, thereby saving our customers potential downtime and costs.”