Maren Balers and Shredders are well known in the corrugated box industry. With over 53 years of relentless focus on process balers and shredders you’re hard pressed to find an industry veteran who hasn’t relied on a Maren at some point in their career, and most still do today.
Maren Engineering Corporation has kept a half century of customers coming back by adapting both balers and shredders to changing customer demands. These demands include safer machines with more guards and safety redundancies. Smarter machines with simple yet powerful touch screen controls to allow easier operation and troubleshooting. Maren includes as standard what others call options like “wire out” alarms, high temperature & low oil level alarms and other machine condition alarms. Maren considers them standard because it’s hard to imagine a plant manager that doesn’t care if the baling wire is out, or about a machine condition that if addressed quickly, could prevent plant down time.
Propak a235 shear baler
Of course baler throughput is an ever changing target. Recent trends have introduced super plants that process 2-3 times more than large plants of just a few years ago. Maren proudly introduced the Propak “A” series horizontal auto tie to cover this need. The “A” series was launched with the Propak A235 shear baler in a 42” x 42” bale cross section that was developed with the help of corrugated box plant customer input. They spoke up about things like automatic self cleaning behind the ram to eliminate costly shut downs for cleaning, easy access ahead of and behind the ram face for P.M. service and repairs, a long wearing replaceable ram guide system, and a bale chamber designed for maximum seal to minimize product migration, dust, debris and cleanup around the baler. Addressing those and many other important features propelled Maren’s launch of the Propak A235 with success in multiple box plants. The A235 serves a wide variety of needs with horsepower ranges from 30hp to 150hp, bale cross sections up to 48” wide x 42” high, and hopper openings from 40”x 48” up to 46”x 80”.
The next logical step would be to leverage the success and performance of the Maren Propak A235 into other balers both smaller and larger, and that’s exactly what’s going on at Maren. Look for the Propak “A” series in all standard industry cross section sizes with ram forces from 120,000 lb to over 400,000 lbs, and horsepower options from 20hp to 225hp.
Maren propak 60
The Corrugated industry not only stretches baler throughput requirements on the top end, but many smaller specialty box plants are becoming conscious of their waste as well and are requiring smaller machines capable of baling DLK box trim. When one customer came to Maren with this very challenge they couldn’t have expected a more valuable solution. The customer had quotes for air systems and balers that they sat on for months. They wanted to bale their own scrap but the ROI just wasn’t there for an air system and auto tie baler.
Maren’s solution was the Propak 60 closed door manual tie baler equipped with a custom variant of their popular above ground conveyor. The solution provided in house baling of all their press trim and scrap at a fraction of their expected cost but with throughput that allowed them plenty of growth. And if bale weight and trucking was ever questionable, the concern was commandingly put to rest when the first truck was loaded and shipped with perfectly stacked bales, fork lifted straight into the trailer, and much of the trailer had to be left vacant to avoid overloading.
To see photos of the applications above and learn more about Maren’s Legacy and Propak line of equipment contact Maren Balers & Shredders at 800-875-1038 or email [email protected]