Industrial packaging machinery sent by road from our Johannesburg workshop and commissioned on your floor by our own technicians.
We supply shrink wrapping and shrink sleeve equipment, flow wrappers, vertical and horizontal form-fill-seal lines, can filling and seaming, capsule and sachet filling, cup fill-seal, tube filling, labelling and cartoning. The range runs from standalone machines to fully automated lines. Every type is set up and powered at our Johannesburg workshop, an hour’s flight away, so you can watch one run before you choose. The machine that suits you depends on your product, your packaging film and your required output.
These are the machines KwaZulu-Natal producers specify most often. The order reflects what the province actually packs: sugar, spice, powders and feed into bags and pouches, and beverage and canned product into multipacks for the retail trade and the port.
Watch your product run before the machine goes on the truck. Fly up for a morning and watch it at Riversands, or courier us the product, the packaging film and the carton and we will run a sample batch and send back the sealed packs and the footage. We do not load the machine until the pack coming off it matches the pack you sell. No deposit is required for the trial.
Three installs written up in full, with the product, the format and the throughput each line was specified around. The spice powder pouch filling project is the closest read for masala and dry-spice packers on this coast.
SA Packaging Machinery delivered a solution that has met our expectations. The equipment has been reliable in daily production, and we’re pleased with its performance. We found the team knowledgeable, professional, and willing to assist whenever required.
PackMan purchased an Automatic 6-Lane, 4-Side Seal Vinegar Packaging Machine, and it has been performing reliably since installation. The machine delivers consistent packaging quality, operates efficiently, and has met our production expectations.
SA Packaging Machinery supplied our VFFS machine, and it has been running well since installation. The team was straightforward to deal with, and the support has been there whenever we’ve needed it.
We’ve had a great experience working with SA Packaging Machinery. The equipment has performed exactly as we hoped, and it’s made a noticeable difference to our operations. The service before and after installation has been excellent, and we’re happy with the overall result.
A packaging machine quotation for Durban and KwaZulu-Natal is built around your product, pack format, output and level of automation, so we price it once we know what you are packing and at what rate. Installation and operator training are included in the quotation. Because KwaZulu-Natal is outside Johannesburg, Pretoria and the surrounding areas, the technicians’ travel and accommodation are billed separately, or you can book the flights and accommodation yourself. How each pricing factor shapes the figure is explained in our guide to packaging machine costs in South Africa.
Our workshop, showroom and spares base is at Riversands in Johannesburg, 20 minutes from OR Tambo. There is no KZN branch, and we would rather say so. What we do instead is make the machine prove itself before it travels: bring or courier your product, your film and your carton, and we run a sample batch first. Machines go by road to KwaZulu-Natal, and our own technicians carry out the commissioning.
Riversands, Johannesburg
Our single workshop, showroom and spares base, 20 minutes from OR Tambo. Address and trading hours on the contact page.
Packaging machines for Durban and KwaZulu-Natal leave our Riversands workshop by road through our logistics partners, and the transit time to your KZN site is confirmed when the freight is booked. Our technicians then travel to install and commission the machine and train your operators, booked as a scheduled visit with the date confirmed before you pay the balance. Installation and operator training are included in the quotation. Because KwaZulu-Natal is outside Johannesburg, Pretoria and the surrounding areas, the technicians’ travel and accommodation are billed separately, or you can book the flights and accommodation yourself.
A machine we have on the floor at Riversands is ready to dispatch once the order is confirmed. A machine that is not in stock takes 10 to 12 weeks from receipt of deposit, which covers the factory build, the Factory Acceptance Test and freight, plus the road leg. We do not quote a lead time we have not confirmed with the factory first.
We also supply, install and service packaging machines for producers in Johannesburg, Pretoria, Cape Town, Port Elizabeth and Bloemfontein. See every area we cover on our service areas page.
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Great company to work with. Affordable quality equipment and great service.
Anything not covered here, phone the workshop. You will get someone who has installed the machine, not a call centre.
Yes, two ways. Fly up for a morning: Riversands is 20 minutes from OR Tambo and the machines are kept set up and powered, so you can watch yours run and take the packs home the same day. Or courier us your product, the film you intend to use and the carton you pack into, and we will run a sample batch and send back the sealed packs with video of the trial. Nothing goes on the truck until the pack coming off the machine is the pack you sell.
Machines we have on the floor at Riversands: dispatched by road once the order is confirmed, with the transit time to Durban, Pietermaritzburg, Richards Bay or the South Coast confirmed when the freight is booked, then a booked commissioning date. Any machine can be specified to suit your product and plant conditions.
Machines not in stock: 10–12 weeks from receipt of deposit, covering the factory build, the Factory Acceptance Test and freight, plus the road leg. Custom configurations are quoted per project, and we do not quote a lead time we have not confirmed with the factory first.
Our own technicians, not a local subcontractor. They travel to your plant, position the machine, connect it to your power and compressed air, dial in the settings for your product and film, and stay until the line is producing sealed packs at the rate quoted. Installation and operator training are included in the quotation. Because KwaZulu-Natal is outside Johannesburg, Pretoria and the surrounding areas, the technicians’ travel and accommodation are billed separately, or you can book the flights and accommodation yourself.
Sealing elements, heating bands, drive belts, blades, seals and sensors are held on the shelf at Riversands and couriered to Durban, so a routine replacement does not wait on an eight-to-twelve-week import. That is the practical difference between a South African supplier and an imported machine with no parts in the country. Less common assemblies we bring in to order, and we will tell you honestly which category your part falls into.
Yes. Most faults are settings, wear parts or sensors, and those get solved on the phone with your operator, often the same morning. Where a technician is genuinely needed we book the trip and tell you when. We service the machines we supplied, and we will look at equipment bought elsewhere where we can source the parts. Worth asking before replacing a machine that may only need a seal kit, an element and a proper service.
No, and we would rather say so than pretend otherwise. We run one workshop, in Johannesburg, and supply the whole country from it. For a KZN producer the honest comparison is not whether we are around the corner, but whether anyone is: an imported machine bought through an agent usually means no spares in South Africa, no technician to send, and a container wait when something breaks. We already have a plant in Durban running our equipment, and the same team that installed it answers the phone.
We do not provide in-house financing, so machines are paid for directly. Many customers finance through their own bank, and we supply the quotes, specifications and documentation banks require. We are a registered vendor with Wesbank, and have supplied machines financed through Nedbank and Absa.
For entry- to mid-level machines, 50% deposit and 50% before delivery. For complex, customised or full-line projects, terms are structured around the Factory Acceptance Test and set out in your quote. We are open to adjusting terms to suit your cash flow, so tell us what works for your business.
Tell us what you are packing. Product, pack format, target output and film if you know it. We will come back with the machine that fits and what it costs to run, not a catalogue.
