We have recently supplied our 50th GIC vertical form fill and seal packaging machine to the salad industry! We’ve asked our customer – one of the UK’s leading growers and packers of loose leaf salads – if we can tell you more about the project and will let you know what they say! In the...Continue Reading
Over the last 35 years, GIC has helped many food producers bridge the gap between being a small and medium company. It’s a well-trodden route in the food industry, starting out at home, moving into their first commercial kitchen and then onto larger premises. There is a tipping point. That moment when the staff cannot...Continue Reading
GIC offers two types of vertical form fill and seal packaging machines: intermittent and continuous motion. Before we look at the differences and benefits of the two systems, let’s examine how a vertical form fill and seal packaging machine works. The packaging, which ends up as a sealed pouch, starts off as a...Continue Reading
A Gainsborough manufacturing business is aiming to build on a record-breaking financial year by adding three new employees to its team. GIC, which designs, manufactures, installs and maintains vertical form fill and seal packaging machines, increased its turnover by 27% between October 2020 and 30 September 2021. With one machine leaving its factory each week,...Continue Reading
GIC, the UK designer and manufacturer of vertical-form fill-and-seal packaging machines, has this month become a gold-level partner in the Rockwell Automation PartnerNetwork™ programme. Established in 1984, Gainsborough-based GIC has used Rockwell components since 1996 to build highly efficient and robust machines that are relied upon by fresh and frozen food producers, aggregate suppliers, and...Continue Reading
A UK manufacturer of packaging machines will celebrate 18 years of developing continuous motion machines at this year’s PPMA Show. Gainsborough-based GIC will be marking the anniversary of its continuous motion machines by displaying its latest GIC3100 model on its stand at the September show. GIC, which will be on stand C50 at PPMA, introduced...Continue Reading
Congratulations to our apprentice Aaron Hodgson who has now qualified as an Electrical engineer! Aaron was supported by John Colley, who has been with GIC for 37 years! Aaron was his 20th apprentice, all of whom have made the grade. Aaron joined us in 2015 and will move into the Service & Support Team in...Continue Reading
Aggregates R Us is the latest company to invest in the Haith mobile bagging system. The trusted supplier of bulk and high-quality bagged aggregates to the construction industry, builders’ merchants and building retail sectors received the new unit this month. The mobile bagging system, which includes a GIC5100 vertical form fill and seal packaging machine,...Continue Reading
Natures Way Foods has become the largest single owner of GIC Leaf Salad Assisted Drop (LSAD) packing machines. The company, which is one of the UK’s leading supplier of prepared salads, coleslaw, potato salad, and fresh food to go salad meals, took delivery of its 25th LSAD equipped machine from GIC earlier this month. Introduced...Continue Reading
A turnkey supplier of automated coin packing lines has celebrated 25 years in the bullion industry by supplying its latest 2021 solution. GIC, which designs and manufactures fully automated bullion counting lines, undertook its first project in 1996 and since completed a further six projects. The Lincolnshire-Based company’s latest project is a 20-metre long line...Continue Reading
