Elastic Staple® Single Needle System (SNS)

Elastic Staple® Single Needle System

The Avery Dennison Elastic Staple® Single Needle Hosiery System (SNS) is a new and innovative packaging solution. It’s designed to help elevate brands by using secure, yet flexible, packaging materials.

A definite “step up” from clip fasteners applied by hand tools, the SNS is much faster and can help to improve production time. It’s also designed to help decrease the potential of operators developing carpal tunnel syndrome.

Features/Benefits:
  • Its adjustable plate allows for variation of penetration depth of the needle, enabling a wide range of material and thicknesses.

  • Its mount can be positioned to angle the entire machine from 0 degrees through 30 degrees for optimal user ergonomics.

  • It can accommodate 10,000 fasteners per roll, for less changeover time.

  • It secures products more efficiently than traditional clip-fed fasteners, reducing cost.

  • It can fasten virtually any thickness of sock packaging while leaving the sock material intact. Polyurethane material provides the tensile strength needed to securely fasten multiple layers of socks while remaining flexible enough to move with the packaging without breaking.

  • Its lightweight staples eliminate excess packaging and reduce solid waste production compared to conventional packaging methods.

  • IndES elastic staples are available in natural and black, in sizes ranging from 15 millimeters through 200 millimeters.

Elastic Staple® Automated Hosiery System (AHS)

This packaging solution secures socks together through an automated process that is faster than traditional clip fed fasteners, and offers flexibility for a variety of elastic staple sizes to suit customer's needs. The AHS uses programming and simple switches to initiate the cycle and pneumatic controls quickly and efficiently deliver one or two fasteners per sock. No further operator involvement is required for a complete fastening cycle.

The AHS features a hosiery needle specially designed to eliminate damage to the sock material and is the smallest diameter of any IndESⓇ needle. This allows the AHS to execute at any thickness of sock up to 75mm packaging while keeping the material pristine.

Features/Benefits:
  • Increased operator production speed and efficiency, faster than clip fasteners
  • Flexible, efficient option to hand tools and expensive fully automated packaging lines:Adjustable plate, allow variation of penetration depth of the needle, enabling the processing of a wide range of material and thicknesses
  • Reduce changeover and downtime - Mount can be positioned to angle the entire machine from 0°- 30°, for optimal user ergonomics, increasing efficiency and ease of use
  • 10,000 fasteners per roll mean less change over during production
  • Reduces packaging costs by securing the socks in a more efficient method than traditional clip fed fasteners
  • Specially designed to help eliminate damage the sock material
  • Longest length, smallest diameter of any IndESⓇ needle, fasten sock packaging while leaving the sock material intact
  • Polyurethane material, tensile strength needed to securely fasten multiple layers
  • Lightweight staples eliminate excess packaging and reduce solid waste