About Libratus Group
We put engineers where the machines are.
Libratus Group supplies weighing, filling, sealing and conveying machinery to producers across Australia, New Zealand, Singapore, Malaysia and Indonesia. We are based in the region we sell into, alongside the production facilities that build our machines, because both of those things determine whether a machine still runs in year three.
Why here
Distance is the reason most machinery purchases go wrong.
Buying a packing machine from the other side of the world used to be inconvenient. Over the last few years it became genuinely difficult. Ocean freight lead times stretched and became unpredictable as shipping routes were disrupted. Air freight stopped being a viable way to shorten them once the cost was weighed against the value of the machine. And in Europe the skilled engineering labour needed to install, commission and maintain equipment grew scarce and expensive at the same time.
The result is that a customer can be left holding a machine nobody can commission, waiting on a part that is eight weeks away, with the supplier in a timezone that answers tomorrow.
We built this operation inside the region for the opposite reason: engineering, production and parts supply all sit where the machines are going. A commissioning engineer is a short flight away, not a continent. Spares reach a plant in days. And when a specification needs changing, we are in the same working day as the line building it.
What we see
The machine is rarely the first thing that fails.
The wrong machine for the product
A linear weigher will not pack a fine powder — that is an auger filler. A weigher configured for coffee beans will not handle a fragile snack without fracturing it. Most bad purchases are decided before anyone talks about price, by a specification written without knowing how the product behaves.
The bottleneck moves
Solving one constraint on a line frequently creates another. Doubling filling speed does nothing if the sealer cannot keep up, and a faster sealer does nothing if the operator is hand-loading the hopper. Equipment sold as an upgrade often relocates the problem rather than removing it.
Nothing to produce when the inspector asks
Equipment arrives carrying a generic CE mark and nothing behind it. There is no risk assessment, no guarding schedule, no conformity documentation for the standard that actually applies where the machine landed. The line sits idle while someone locally reconstructs paperwork that was never made.
No route back when it goes wrong
On most trading platforms the dispute window is around thirty days. A packaging machine takes longer than that to arrive, be unpacked, installed, commissioned and run under real production conditions — which is the only point at which some faults appear. By then the window has closed. A China trade law firm reports being asked to take roughly a hundred cases arising from failed equipment transactions over ten years, and declining every one for lack of a realistic route to winning.
Nobody trained, no manual anyone can read
Machines are delivered without operator training and with documentation in a language the operators do not speak. The equipment is capable. The line still underperforms.
None of this is exotic. It is the ordinary outcome of buying complex equipment at distance, from a party with no obligation once payment clears.
How we work
Four things we do differently, and why each one exists.
Specification before price
We ask what you are packing, at what target weight, in what format and at what rate, before quoting anything. It is a short exchange, not a sales process, and it is what stops the wrong machine being ordered. Product characteristics determine the machine class before any other factor.
Built to our specification, not selected from a catalogue
Our machines are built to our own design briefs in production facilities we direct — not selected from a supplier's list. Safety and reliability are non-negotiable, and so is parts availability — a machine we cannot get a wear part for in days is a machine we will not build, whatever it costs.
Installation and commissioning by people who arrive
Larger installations are commissioned by an engineer sent directly from our production line. Smaller units are installed and the operators trained by contracted engineers local to you. Where a project justifies it, we place a project manager on site to oversee the whole installation.
Spares held where the risk is
For critical wear items we hold stock on your site rather than in a warehouse on another continent, and restock as it is used. Downtime on a packing line is measured in shifts lost, not in the price of the part.
Where we say no
We talk people out of machines more often than you would expect.
Two things happen regularly. A customer arrives having specified a machine far larger than the job requires, usually because a supplier sold capacity rather than a solution. And a customer arrives having specified something that will not cope — a machine chosen on price that cannot hold the tolerance, the throughput or the product.
We say so in both cases. Over-specified equipment ties up capital and floor space that a growing producer needs elsewhere. Under-specified equipment fails in production, which costs considerably more than the difference would have.
We recommend only what will do the job, and we back the recommendation with a performance guarantee.
The company
Our headquarters are in Singapore. We operate across the region.
Singapore is the operating hub for the business — a credible and accountable base for banking, tax and regional customer support. It sits within a short flight of every market we serve, so meeting a customer is a day rather than a week.
Our engineering, production and commissioning capability is distributed across the region we sell into — which is why a specification change is settled the same working day, a commissioning engineer is a short flight from your plant, and a wear part reaches you in days rather than weeks.
- Markets served
- Australia · New Zealand · Singapore · Malaysia · Indonesia
- Registration
- Singapore-registered.
Tell us what you're packing.
Product, target weight, format and throughput. That is enough for a configuration and a firm price, usually within two working days.