Shrink wrap, flow wrap, vertical and horizontal form-fill-seal, filling and labelling equipment
— held, demonstrated and supported from our Johannesburg workshop.
A packaging machine is only right when it suits your product, your film and your throughput — so we start with the range, not the sales pitch. Shrink wrapping and shrink sleeve equipment, flow wrappers, vertical and horizontal form-fill-seal lines, canning and can seaming, capsule and sachet filling, cup fill-seal, tube filling, labelling and cartoning. Standalone machines through to fully automated packaging solutions.
Each one runs in our workshop, so you can see the machine handle your product before you commit to it.
L-bar and side sealers, sleeve sealers and shrink tunnels for multipacks, glass jars, hardware and retail-ready packs.
Horizontal flow wrappers for bars, biscuits, frozen snacks, small parts and anything needing a fin or lap seal at speed.
Powders, granules and liquids formed, filled and sealed from reel film, with auger, weigher or volumetric dosing to suit the product.
Stand-up and zipper pouch lines for spices, granules and pre-made-pouch formats where shelf presentation matters.
Our Riversands premises are staffed through the working week. Bring your product, your film and your carton, and we will run it on the machine you are considering. Installation is carried out on your site by our own technicians, and common wear parts are held here in Johannesburg rather than ordered in.
Riversands, Johannesburg
Address and trading hours to be confirmed
Machines are dispatched from Riversands, which puts most of the Witwatersrand within a same-day round trip for our installation team. Pretoria and Centurion sit inside the same service radius.
Written up in full, with the product, the format and the throughput each line was specified around.
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.
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 been very happy with the equipment supplied by SA Packaging Machinery. It’s straightforward to use, performs consistently, and has helped us improve our production process. The team was easy to work with and made the entire experience smooth.
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SA Packaging Machinery offers excellent service and high-quality machines. Their team is knowledgeable, professional, and always willing to assist with the best solutions for packaging needs. The machines are reliable, efficient, and easy to work with, making a big difference in productivity. I would highly recommend SA Packaging Machinery to anyone looking for great value and dependable packaging equipment.
Anything not covered here, phone the workshop. You will get someone who has installed the machine, not a call centre.
Yes, and we would rather you did. Our Riversands workshop keeps machines set up and powered, so you can watch one run before you commit to it. Bring your own product, the film you intend to use and the carton you pack into, and we will run a sample batch on the machine you are considering. That is the only reliable way to know how your product behaves through a forming tube, a filler or a sealing jaw. Most Gauteng buyers come twice: once to see the range, and again to sign off a trial on their own product.
Machines in stock at our Riversands warehouse: 7–10 working days, covering delivery, installation and configuration at your factory. In and around the Johannesburg metros and wider Gauteng, we can occasionally deliver same day, depending on technician availability and scheduling.
Machines not in stock: 10–12 weeks from receipt of deposit. This covers the factory build, the Factory Acceptance Test and freight, through to delivery, installation and configuration at your factory.
Custom configurations are quoted per project. We don’t quote a lead time we haven’t confirmed with the factory first.
Our own technicians, not a subcontractor. They position the machine on your floor, 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. Operator training happens on the same visit, on your product, with your staff, so the people running the machine on Monday morning are the people we trained. Because we are based in Johannesburg, a follow-up visit during the first weeks of production is a drive across town.
Common wear parts are held at Riversands: sealing elements, heating bands, drive belts, blades, seals and sensors. A routine replacement is a collection or a local courier the same week, not an eight-week import. Less common assemblies we bring in to order, and we will tell you honestly which category your part falls into when you phone. Keeping the fast-moving items on a shelf in Gauteng is the single biggest difference between a line down for two days and a line down for two months.
Yes. A service call to a plant in Johannesburg, Ekurhuleni or the West Rand is a drive rather than a flight, which is why our response times in Gauteng are what they are. We service the machines we supplied, and we will look at equipment bought elsewhere where we can source the parts. Worth asking before you replace a machine that may only need a seal kit, a new element and a proper service.
Riversands is our demonstration and dispatch base, and it serves the whole country and into Southern Africa. What this page covers is specifically what Johannesburg and the wider Gauteng radius get: a walk-in showroom you can visit during business hours, same-week local delivery on stock machines, installation by our own team, and fast-moving spares on the shelf here rather than in a container.
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.
