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May 11, 2008 by Nicholas | 1 Comment

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It began five years ago with a lobster claw. Roland Swift was talking to his cousin, a local lobster fisherman, when he suggested that Roland invent a machine that would make it easier to band claws. It was from that first banding machine that Morswift Machines was born. It wasn’t long before Swift realized that the same technology could be used for a variety of product packaging. With the help of three angel investors, he started his own business, beginning with a machine that would band broccoli, and then developing another model that would bundle other types of materials. There are a couple key benefits to using the machines, the first being that it reduces the labour required for packaging. At one point, Swift went to fish packing plant that bands crab using corrugated plastic. It took two women to do the banding – one to hold the crab, the other to put on the band. Then one of the women started banding with one of the Morswift machines. “They had 18 people on the line,” Swift says. “One machine with one woman did 67 per cent of their product.” Image via SeaLifeGifts

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