What happens is a customer orders a machine to meet its particular needs. For example, a dairy company may need a machine that vertically packages one-quart gable top containers of white milk. Schneider engineers would create drawings. Then employees make some of the parts, while others are ordered. The parts are made in one room of the plant, and the machine is put together in a separate room.
Machines come in either carbon or stainless steel.
Any painting is also done on the premises. Each machine takes three to 18 months to complete from date of order depending on its complexity. Machine construction lasts about 14 weeks. Afterward, Schneider Packaging services machines for their entire life span. Currently, the company is so well-stocked with orders that April is the earliest a machine could be delivered.