High Tech Components
Stretch wrap machine reduces employee injuries and safety hazards from falling parts
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Challenges:
- Reducing risk of employee injuries
- Eliminating safety hazards related to falling parts
- Eliminating shipping-related damages
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Solutions:
- Yellow Jacket’s 87M Patented Orbital Stretch Wrapper
- Improved safety/machine wrapped pallets eliminated risk of falling parts
- Reduced manpower/one employee can easily wrap a pallet
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Results:
Joey LeRouge, High Tech Components general manager, “Safety means everything to me, which I’m sure it does to a lot of people. From a safety standpoint it’s done right. There’s a right way, an okay way and a wrong way. Before, I was kind of doing it the okay way.”
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Baker Tankhead
Tank head fabricator saves on production time and costs with Yellow Jacket Stretch-Wrap Machine
Read more about Baker Tankhead’s shipping success and learn how Yellow Jacket can improve your shipping operations. |
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Challenges:
- Reducing production time and labor costs
- Eliminating shipping department bottlenecks
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Results:
John Asfar, Technology Manager of Baker Tankhead, “You’re able to get more heads ready for shipping per day because it’s done faster since you don’t have three people you’re pulling out of the make ready department to palletize this one product, you’re down to one person.”
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California Sheet Metal
Sheet metal and composite panel fabricator solves worker safety and labor concerns with Yellow Jacket technology
Read more about California Sheet Metal's shipping success and learn how Yellow Jacket can improve your shipping operations. |
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Challenges:
- Keep parts secure and protected from damage during shipment
- Reduce safety concerns from manual wrapping
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Results:
Robert Miller, Shop Foreman of California Sheet Metal, “Now we wrap more correctly and that helps us out by making sure our parts do not get damaged.”
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Haas
Automation
Streamlined shipping operation improves part quality and also lowers labor requirements/costs
Read more about Haas Automation’s shipping success and learn how Yellow Jacket can improve your shipping operations. |

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Challenges:
- Damages, scratches to parts
- Streamlining internal packaging/shipping operation
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Results:
Joe McKenna, Haas machine shop manager, “We calculated that the Yellow Jacket saves us the work of half a person, or a yearly savings of $20,000. But, our labor savings is just the minimum, there is also improved quality. Now we are protecting our parts in a better fashion.”
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Equalizer Systems
Improved shipping operation minimizes labor costs and increases productivity
Read the full Equalizer story and learn how Yellow Jacket could help you reduce your overall labor costs. |

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Challenges:
- Reducing overall labor costs
- Improving efficiency and part quality
- Reducing safety concerns from manual wrapping
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Results:
John Hill, shipping manager, “The Yellow Jacket machine has taken the manual process of stretch-wrapping and has totally freed up one man to do what two men were doing to get our packaging and shipping done. It does exactly what we need, and looking at the way we have done it in the past opposed to the way we do it now, it is totally necessary.”
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National Tube Form, Inc.
Read National Tube Form’s complete story and learn how Yellow Jacket could help improve your shipping productivity and pallet preparation. |
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Challenges:
- Securing standard, oversized and odd shaped loads for shipping
- Improving shipping productivity and pallet preparation
- Eliminating physical wear and tear of hand-wrapped pallets
Solutions:
Results:
Tracie Yarian, shipping/receiving and warehouse supervisor, said when employees manually skidded, banded and wrapped loads, it took one employee at least four hours to prepare 50 pallets. Since implementing the Yellow Jacket 110, preparation of the same number of loads takes an hour. |
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Staber Industries
Contract fabricator triples productivity/delivers proven ROI
Hear Bill in his own words and read the complete Staber story, maybe you'll get a good idea of how Yellow Jacket can deliver proven ROI to your operation. |

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Challenges:
- Damage free shipments of “slippery”, odd-shaped loads
- Reducing banding-related worker injuries
- Reducing excessive labor costs and shipping time
Solutions:
- Yellow Jacket 87M Manual Orbital Stretch-Wrapper
- Eliminated product damage in shipping
- Eliminated banding/ergonomic injuries
- Tripled pack-to-ship productivity
- Delivered PROVEN ROI ($1000 savings per week!)
Results:
Bill Staber, President, “Our old wrapping method took two guys 15 minutes to prep a load. With Yellow Jacket it takes one guy five minutes. We get more product out the door." |
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Tri-State
Fabricators
Productivity makeover cuts pack-to-ship costs and delivers proven ROI
Hear Jack in his own words and read the full Tri-State story, maybe you'll get a good idea of how Yellow Jacket can deliver proven ROI to your operation. |

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Challenges:
- Eliminating shipping department bottlenecks
- Reducing ergonomic-related worker injuries
- Reducing excessive labor costs and shipping time
Solutions:
Results:
Jack Deimling, Tri-State shipping manager, “Before Yellow Jacket we were doing about 30 pallets a day of odd-shaped loads. Now we're doing about 80 or 90 a day. The system has already paid for itself in labor savings alone.” |
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I.Q.L. Corporation
I.Q.L. Corporation oversized and odd shaped loads wrapped securely.
Hear Vance in his own words and read more about IQL’s shipping success to learn how Yellow Jacket could improve your shipping operations. |
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Challenges:
- Efficiently wrapping irregular sized/odd shaped loads
- Safely securing loads without bands
- Reducing material handling costs
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Results:
Vance Young, I.Q.L. Engineer, “With the Yellow Jacket I see two major advantages, it’s very simple to use and it’s fast. The forklift operator drives the load up to the machine while the other person operates the Yellow Jacket 110® wrap. Even if one person operates both the lift and the machine, it's still a fast operation. It can typically wrap the entire load in about 15 seconds.” |
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Steel Works
Steel slitter solves rust problem, improves shelf-life of product
Hear Fred in his own words and read the complete Steel Works story, and maybe you'll get a good idea of how Yellow Jacket can deliver proven ROI to your operation. |
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Challenges:
- Prevent rusting of coils and eliminate returned shipments
- Improve on storage time of only a few weeks
- Eliminate steps in shipping process
Solutions:
- Yellow Jacket's Patented Orbital Stretch-Wrapper
- Wrapping with plastic locks out condensation
- Plastic protects coils from rust for up to a year
- Wrapping coils to skids reduces need for banding
Results:
Fred Jones, Plant Superintendent, “What I looked for myself and what the owner looked for was the steel not coming back rejected for rust. Two or three truckloads coming back would pay for that machine easily, a few times over. We haven’t had a claim in over a year now."
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Detroit Tool Metal Products
Changing packaging method cuts down on cost, time and injuries
Hear Scott in his own words and read the full Detroit Tool Metal Products story, and maybe you'll get a good idea of how Yellow Jacket can deliver proven ROI to your operation. |
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Challenges:
- Reduce wrapping costs
- Improve on 4-5 minute per skid wrapping time
- Protect workers from injury
Solutions:
- Yellow Jacket's Patented Orbital Stretch-Wrapper
- Orbital wrapping requires much less film than heat shrink wrapping
- The Yellow Jacket 87-M cut wrapping time in half, allowing more time for other processes
- Discontinuing heat shrink wrapping eliminates repetitive bending and risk of burns
Results:
Scott Callahan, Transportation Manager, “What the Yellow Jacket did for us was it offered us a very good way of securing our products to the skid while taking up less space and using less time to do so.” |
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