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For more than fifty years, SWF Companies has been a dominant manufacturer of precision packaging machinery. Throughout its history, SWF has been a pioneer in the development of packaging designs and machinery and a driving force during a period of rapidly changing packaging applications, materials, and requirements. As a result, SWF has established strong, long-standing relationships with its customers and corrugated sales agents alike and has assumed a position of acknowledged market leadership. Below are milestones that have been reached while building Team SWF. |
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In 1971, the company was acquired by Southwest Forest Industries and its name was subsequently changed to SWF Machinery in 1974. | |
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In 1995, SWF acquired Dyna-Pak Corporation, one of the leading producers of automatic case packers for the french fry industry. Throughout the 1980s, Dyna-Pak introduced a range of innovative complementary products, including a case opener positioner (COP) to automatically open and position empty cases and direct, index, and pivot loaders. SWF/Dyna-Pak has furthered its position as the market leader in vertical case packing in the frozen potato and IQF (“individual quick frozen”) vegetable markets. | |
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In 1996, SWF acquired McDowell International Packaging Systems, thereby adding a complete line of RSC machines to its product offering. McDowell was established in 1977 to service the RSC case erector/bottom sealer needs of the Florida fresh fruit market. In 1980, McDowell expanded its market focus to include the blow-molded plastics industry with a line of bottle packers, unpackers, and sealers. Over the years, customer demand led McDowell into the development of top sealers, drop case packers, place case packers, inverted case packers and five gallon, filled bottle rack loaders. SWF has continued to develop the McDowell line which now includes a wide array of markets and customers, including producers of food, beverage, chemical, meat, dairy, bakery, petroleum and personal care products.
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In 1946
Mr. Buster Paxton invented the first automated nailing machine for wooden
produce boxes to serve farmers and food processors in California’s
San Joaquin Valley—one of the most fertile agricultural areas in
the world. For nearly twenty years, the majority of the nation’s
domestically grown fruits and vegetables were shipped in wooden boxes
formed by Mr. Paxton’s machine, commonly known as “the General.”
In the mid-1960s, the development of “hot-melt” adhesives spawned
the rapid conversion from wood to corrugated shipping containers.
GNMC capitalized on this opportunity to work
with corrugated suppliers to design all-mechanical corrugated packaging
machinery that quickly gained a worldwide acceptance and presence. For
more than thirty years, SWF has consistently applied the principle “Keep
It Simple, Keep It Efficient . . . Solve A Problem” to the design
of its all-mechanical products, which have gained a reputation as high
quality, durable, and easy-to-maintain. The company’s simplicity
of design has also greatly facilitated SWF’s ability to customize
its machinery to meet specific customer application needs.
