Knowledge base
Packaging Machinery Knowledge Base
The Whittaker Packaging Solutions packaging machinery knowledge base: plain-English buyer's guides and technical references that help you choose the right end-of-line equipment for your operation.
Most buying decisions in this category go sideways for the same reasons. Someone picks the cheapest pallet wrapper and film cost quietly doubles. Someone buys a strapping tool that does not match their strap. Someone automates too early. These guides are written for two readers: the operations manager who needs the detail, and the owner-operator who just wants to know which machine to put on the floor.
The guides
What is in the Whittaker Packaging Solutions knowledge base
Where to start
How to use these guides
Four core buyer's guides plus a technical glossary. Each stands on its own, but together they cover most of the questions we get on a first phone call.
Start with the topic closest to your problem. If film spend keeps creeping, start with the film consumption guide. If you are running 200 cartons a day with a hand tool, the strapping tool guide will save you a call.
Cost framing is qualitative: ranges, scenarios and comparisons against typical mid-tier imported machines. For your numbers on a specific application, request a free phone consultation.
Who writes the WPS knowledge base
The guides are written by the WPS team, drawing on roughly 70 years of combined experience across pallet wrappers, strapping machinery, carton sealing and breakdown support. Trading since September 2020, we specify machinery for Australian sites, not catalogue-import use.
Talk to the WPS team
The knowledge base gets you most of the way. A 20-minute call with the WPS team gets you the rest. Request a free phone consultation and we will be in touch within 24-48 hours during business hours, especially in our key service hubs.
FAQs
Common questions
The packaging machinery knowledge base is a set of buyer's guides and a technical glossary covering pallet wrappers, strapping tools and packaging automation. The aim is to help you make a better-informed choice before you buy or upgrade equipment, whether you go with WPS or another supplier.