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End of line: Palletizing & Stretch Wrapping

Machine Product Brief
| March 31, 2002

Case-packing/palletizing robot

The RoboticStar KR180 PA CP case-packing/uncasing and palletizing robot from Aidco (Adrian, MI) handles plastic, glass, or metal containers. Robot can accommodate 2 to 7 packaging lines running multiple containers at speeds to 45 cases/min.
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Machine Product Brief
| March 31, 2002

Palletizer

Columbia’s (Vancouver, WA) HL2000 high-level palletizer includes a small footprint of 7’x14’. Reaches speeds to 20 cases/min, with soft product handling, and standard side retainers for load squaring.
Machine Product Brief
| February 28, 2002

Robotic palletizer/wrapper

The Mini-System combines an automatic stretch wrapper from Orion Packaging Systems (Collierville, TN) and a robotic palletizer from Brenton Engineering (Alexandria, MN).
Machine Product Brief
| February 28, 2002

Palletizers

More compact, less expensive palletizers from Top Tier (Portland, OR) are said to operate faster than previous designs to more than 40 cases/min. New features include touch-screen controls, enhanced operator safety, more centered layers, and simplified maintenance.
Machine Product Brief
| February 28, 2002

Palletizer

Powell Systems (Youngstown, OH) has released its ES-100 palletizer, a compact system designed for automated and semi-automated palletizing operations.
Machine Product Brief
| February 28, 2002

Drag chain pallet conveyor

A drag chain pallet conveyor from Alba Manufacturing (Hamilton, OH) is well suited for heavy-pallet conveying for the beverage industry. Design can withstand jarring fork truck unloads while transferring a 2-ton load from the palletizer to the shipping dock.
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Supplier News
| January 31, 2002

Suppliers focus more on contract packagers

Many packaging suppliers have realized a shift in sales toward contract packagers. Some say CP business has helped ‘sustain’ their companies.
Machine Product Brief
| December 31, 2001

Equipment: Quick ship palletizing program

The new quick ship program developed by Columbia/Okura (Vancouver, WA) meets the demand for short lead times or last-minute budget changes. A complete robotic palletizing system can be delivered in 2 weeks or less.
This hydraulic lift raises full, stretchwrapped pallets up to the level of the warehouse floor.
Machine Case Study
| December 31, 2001

Bottling built for the future (sidebar)

Conveyor connection
Krones, Inc.: Krones Compact Line Concept
 Video | December 31, 2001

Krones, Inc.: Krones Compact Line Concept

The new Krones Compact Line was in operation at the Krones AG In-house Exhibition held November 10-12, 2003 in Neutraubling, Germany.
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AIDCO International: Flexible robotic palletizing
 Video | December 31, 2001

AIDCO International: Flexible robotic palletizing

AIDCO, a systems partner of KUKA, has developed the RoboticStar palletizing system to compliment its conventional palletizers and to provide customers a flexible automation solution for today’s competitive environment.
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Machine Product Brief
| December 31, 2001

Equipment: Stretch wrapper

CBM Systems (Claremont, CA) has released its model SW801 semi-automatic stretch wrapper that has an exclusive “no jam” turntable; a no-lube, low-maintenance drive system; and a 45 loads/hr capacity.
Global Beverage Systems: Tray packing for bottled water line
 Video | December 31, 2001

Global Beverage Systems: Tray packing for bottled water line

On this bottled water line, following automatic lane dividers, bottles are collated and tray packed on equipment from Vantage Pak. Pressure-sensitive print-and-apply labelers from Loveshaw apply product ID and date code to each side of the tray before it enters an Arpac shrink wrapper. Then an incline conveyor takes finished trays to a remote palletizer.
A half-ton of hydraulic pressure compresses the loads an average of 4'' to tighten them for shipment (above) before the load con
Machine Case Study
| December 31, 2001

Printer presses onward with unitizing

Automatic weighing, strapping, and stretch-wrapping system unitizes loads of printed materials at Gazette Communications. Damage claims are reduced to zero.
Global Beverage Systems: Empty bottle handling on bottled water line
 Video | December 31, 2001

Global Beverage Systems: Empty bottle handling on bottled water line

On this new bottled water filling line, bulk bottles are depalletized by a Sig Simonazzi high-level depalletizer and then single-filed for delivery to the air conveying system from Descon Conveyor Systems and Consultants.

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