A Curated Collection of Case Studies: Palletizing

Are you in the market for a palletizer and looking for the latest technology and innovations to streamline your packaging operations? Check out our list of case studies featuring palletizing and depalletizing equipment and the unique solutions that these pieces of equipment bring to the companies mentioned here. Learn how the equipment works, what it’s capable of, and which machine is right for your line.

Robotics

Rain Supercharges Throughput with Palletization, Automation

Alongside a host of other recent packaging automation improvements, cobot palletization has helped Rain Pure Mountain Spring speed up packaging line operations while allowing for labor reallocation.

March 5, 2025

Case/Tray Packing

Sugar Producer Emphasizes Flexibility in End-of-Line Solution

British Sugar replaces a 38-year-old end-of-line system with two tray packers and seven automatic palletizers with robotic layer preparation to handle a wide array of product formats and sizes.

July 25, 2024

British Sugar’s main product is granulated sugar, shown here in retail bags packed in a retail-ready tray-and-lid package.

Robotics

Cobot Palletizers Brew Big Benefits for Coffee Company

Chicago-area coffee company Napco Brands installs two cobot palletizers to speed production and free up eight operators to handle more specialized tasks.

March 21, 2024

The Robotiq Palletizing Solution with the UR10e cobot handles 1,500 boxes per day in a two-shift operation

Robotics

Automation Keeps Kegs Moving at Yuengling

America’s oldest brewery continues a long tradition of using packaging robotics for keg handling, installing two new 6-axis robots that depalletize/palletize kegs at 400/hr.

August 4, 2023

Robotics

New Fruit Snack Production Line Requires Sophisticated Packaging Gear

When one of the country’s largest producers of fruit snacks boosted its candy-making capacity, primary, secondary, and tertiary packaging had to be top-notch.

August 25, 2023

The case packer includes a pair of robots that quickly and efficiently orient cartons into the patterns required.

Robotics

New Palletizing Solutions Incorporate Cobots

Packaging machinery OEMs deliver new cobotic palletizing solutions that offer features such as a small footprint, AI, smart vision, and quick deployment.

August 4, 2023

Robotics

Heavy-Payload Cobots Take on Palletizing

A range of higher-payload, longer-reach ‘industrial cobots’ introduced over the last two years are accelerating the use of collaborative robots in secondary packaging applications.

August 4, 2023

Robotics

Integrated Robotic Packaging Line Future-Proofs Car Wash Supplier

Car wash supplier Sonny’s knew that to meet its ambitious sales goals for a quickly growing 2.5-gal detergent format, a semi-automated legacy system wouldn’t cut it. The resulting integrated robotic packaging line is the jewel of its newly opened facility

July 21, 2023

The new Diamond Shine Bullseye 2.5-gal automated packaging line is a key element of a recent move to a new manufacturing facility in Mentor, Ohio, all part of a 109,000 sq. ft., 20 million-dollar renovation project to accommodate increased production.

Filling/capping, liquid & viscous

Filler, Seamer Lets Contract Brewer Keep D.O. Low

To contract craft brewer The Brutalist and its owner King State Beer, dissolved oxygen is four-letter word. A new filler and seamer combo keeps D.O. low and the beer quality high, while paperboard multipacks help to make an impact on the shelf.

March 10, 2023

From left, Aric Parker and Pete Lewis of King State and The Brutalist, Tegan Foster and Amanda King of Hawthorne Bottle Shoppe, and Vinny Giusto of King State and the Brutalist.

Secondary Packaging

Format Mix Shift Precipitates Speedier Canning Automation

Retail-friendly cans were already hot in craft brew when pandemic-related venue closures accelerated the trend. Dust Bowl Brewing Co.’s increased, sustained reliance on this container format convinced management to double down on canning automation.

February 27, 2023

Dust Bowl Brewing Co.'s name and tagline, Great Beer Born of Hard Times, is a nod to the Dust Bowl drought and ensuing migration to California.

Secondary Packaging

End-of-Line Automation Reduces Snak King’s Labor Pains

Branded and private-label snack producer Snak King installs 16 robotic palletizers and three intelligent automated vehicles to address labor shortages and resulting labor costs, as well as streamline its operations.

September 8, 2022

A Fanuc M-710iC/45M medium-payload, six-axis delta robot picks a case from the palletizer infeed for loading onto a pallet in one of 50 different configurations.

Secondary Packaging

New Case Packer, Robotic Palletizer, Let Wisconsin Cheesemaker Efficiently Offer Multiple Output Options

With a new automated case packer and palletizer, Wisconsin Whey Protein’s cheesemaking operation can now offer its customers bulk cheese in barrels or in blocks.

June 1, 2021

The Massman Automation compact cheese block case packer packages 40-lb. blocks in protective cases for safe shipment and handling.

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Live from the Humanoid Robot Forum Day Two: The Legs vs Wheels Decision, Identifying the Vision for Automation, and Data to Scale Humanoids

Sessions on day two of the Humanoid Robot Forum explored how robotics companies are weighing form factor, applications, and integration challenges as companies push humanoid robots closer to scaled deployment.

Speakers at Automate’s Humanoid Robot Forum Tuesday highlighted the realities, considerations, and benefits of deployment in industrial settings.

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