Based in Wolverhampton, Task Consumer Products Limited is a manufacturer of consumer goods and away from home products. Task manufactures high quality and innovative toilet tissue and kitchen towel products for the retail and wholesale market, also becoming a recognised key supplier to the Away from Home market.
Task Consumer Products has invested over £30 Million GBP since 2014 to increase its converting capacity to over 100,000 tonnes and continued to develop and invest in its “Little Duck” brand in the UK market: the fastest growing brand in 2020 (Kantar data). The business has grown to become the largest independent converter in the UK, with further expansion plans on the horizon as it prepares to add more converting capacity in a new state-of-the-art facility and with short-term plans develop other markets within the tissue sector. It currently operates 5 fully automated consumer lines and one AFH line.
Innovative solutions to solve the complexities related to the packaging and handling of tissue and personal care products
The link between TASK and IMA TMC is long-standing: the recent supply has replaced some 20-year-old machines from the Italian Supplier. There are two new complete consumer lines supplied by IMA TMC, consisting of the UNIVERSA wrapper in combination with the CINQUE bundler. UNIVERSA is the automatic wrapping machine for bathroom tissue and household towel rolls that joins the maximum flexibility and versatility with high production performance and ease of use. Combined to the converters of tissue products, UNIVERSA can wrap single, double, and triple layer packs at high speed up to 200 packs per minute. The line is completed by the tissue bundler Cinque: the top range of automatic IMA TMC bundlers, designed for processing single or any other multi-roll configuration, for bathroom and kitchen products, and with any flexible plastic packaging material, both transparent and printed. CINQUE improves the production capacities of every format, while maximising performance in the requested product dimensions.
This extremely flexible machine is capable to treat all pack typologies, from single roll to triple layer configurations, up to 26 cycles per minute. Task is planning to expand the lines: their sixth line will integrate another UNIVERSA tissue wrapper.
The choice of a supplier such as IMA TMC is well considered: for years, they have been supplying TASK with full optional, durable, and reliable lines. IMA TMC’s focus on sustainability is reflected in their machines: today, consumers are pushing for products that help them reducing their carbon footprint and the demand for environment-friendly and fully recyclable products is increasing. Thus, the necessity for the manufacturers to have an equipment capable of switching from current poly wrap configuration to paper wrap configuration. On this purpose, IMA TMC can offer a range of machines able to process heat-sealable paper material at performance comparable to those achieved with poly.
All sustainable-driven innovations on the machines, participate to IMA ZERO: IMA Group’s commitment in developing sustainable packaging, reducing plastic and the use of resources, and promoting a positive social environment. Among IMA ZERO projects, NoP (No-Plastic) is the one dedicated to plastic reduction. Sustainability also means being wisely able to restore used machines, extending their life cycle: the TASK machines that IMA TMC has replaced are highly sought after. Therefore, after a complete overhaul by Spares & More, the IMA TMC company dedicated to the refurbishment and trade of second-hand equipment for the tissue market, these machines will be quickly again in production by other manufacturers.
ABOUT IMA TMC
For over 20 years IMA TMC (Tissue Machinery Company) has been offering the most innovative solutions to handle and solve the complexities related to the packaging and handling of Tissue and Personal Care products. IMA TMC’s core business belongs to the primary packaging of tissue products, with a full array of excellent machinery dedicated to wrapping and bundling Kitchen, Bathroom and AFH tissue rolls. Further investments were dedicated to developing an innovative solution dedicated to the nonwovens primary and secondary packaging. IMA TMC is part of IMA Tissue&Nonwoven: the hub of five IMA Group companies committed to the Tissue & Nonwovens Industry, providing converting and packing solutions for face masks, wet&dry wipes, diapers and absorbency products and tissue rolls wrapping, bagging and bundling up to palletizing.
