Counts, rates, limits, and what we turn away.

Pricing is per bag on annual volume: $0.52 per bag from 5,000 to 25,000, $0.42 from 25,000 to 100,000, $0.35 from 100,000 to 300,000, and $0.30 above 300,000. Every tier is fully loaded — film, sealing, inline checkweighing, lot and date coding, and bulk carton pack-out are in the number. Setup and changeover are quoted separately.

Six discrete components, counted simultaneously from six independent vibratory feeder channels. Six is a hard machine limit, not a guideline. A kit with seven or more distinct part numbers has to be split into two bags or handled as a hand-place operation, which is priced differently. Most cabinet and furniture kits land between three and five components.

Up to roughly 20 pieces per channel. The line is built for assembly kits — four screws, two cam locks, eight shelf pins — not bulk counts. A bag of 500 loose screws is a weigh-count application and the wrong machine for the job; a scale-based packager will do that faster and cheaper than a fiber-optic counting line.

600 to 720 bags per hour sustained, depending on bag size and how many components are in it. That works out to roughly 4,500 bags per shift and about 22,000 bags across a five-day week running a single shift. Component count and bag dimensions are the two variables that move the rate.

A 5,000 bag run is about one shift. 25,000 bags is roughly six shifts. 100,000 bags is four to five weeks on a single shift. These are machine run times, not quoted lead times — scheduling, component availability, and first-article approval sit on top of them, and we confirm a real ship date when the order is placed.

5,000 bags is the minimum for per-bag pricing. Below that, changeover time dominates the job and the per-bag number stops making sense, so smaller runs are quoted hourly instead. If you are sampling a new kit before committing to volume, say so and we will price the trial run separately.

Screws, bolts, nuts, washers, cam locks, dowels, shelf pins, brackets, clips, bushings, and o-rings — essentially anything that feeds reliably from a vibratory bowl. Fastener kitting and fastener bagging are the core of the work, but any small rigid component that orients and singulates in a bowl is a candidate. Send a handful of real parts and we will tell you.

Tangling parts are the main exclusion — open springs, long wire forms, and anything that nests or links in a bowl. Also parts over roughly 150 mm, jobs needing oriented placement in the bag, and liquids or powders. The line is not currently certified for medical device, food contact, or pharmaceutical packaging, so those applications are outside our scope.

99.5% count accuracy is the standard, using a fiber-optic counting system on every channel plus 100% inline checkweighing — every bag crosses the checkweigher, not a sample. A 100% verified count is available as a paid option when the application demands zero short counts, and it is priced per bag on top of the tier rate.

Either, and that is the point. MGD Industrial Corporation has been a fastener and MRO distributor since 2000, so we can source the components, count them, bag them, code them, and deliver kits to your line on one purchase order — one vendor, one invoice, one point of accountability. Most contract packagers can only bag what you send. Customer-supplied parts run on the same line and are fully supported.

Same service, built differently. Assortments we hand-build today move onto the automated line: counted from six independent feeder channels, 100% inline checkweighed, lot and date coded, at 99.5% verified count accuracy. The change you feel is volume and price — production quantities and a lower per-bag cost than hand assembly, with traceability on every bag.

The plant is in Kaukauna, Wisconsin, serving the Fox Valley, Green Bay, Appleton, Oshkosh, Milwaukee, and Chicago, plus the wider upper Midwest. Regional customers usually pick up or take a short LTL lane; we also ship bulk cartons direct to an assembly line anywhere in the continental United States.