A machine for winding sutures into a suture tray package comprises a baseplatform, a plurality of package nests, a first workstation for placing anemptytray onto one of the package nests, a further workstation for feeding a needlewith an attached suture in the tray and parking said needle in the tray, awindingstation (for winding the suture into a winding channel of the tray, a lidplacement station for placing a lid onto one of the package nests, a lidattachmentstation for attaching the lid to the tray, and an offloading station forremovingsaid trays from the package nests. The further workstation for feeding aneedlein the tray and parking said needle in the tray comprises two tweezergrippers,at least one of said tweezer grippers having a V or U shaped notch, said V orUshaped notch being located at the inside of the notched tweezer gripper facingthe second tweezer gripper.
