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Smurfit-Stone: Smurfit-Stone: Smurfit-Stone: Bag packager

Smurfit-Stone Container Corp. (Chicago, IL) has entered into an agreement with Fanuc Robotics (Rochester Hills, MI) to offer a machine to pick, place, pack and palletize bags.

Smurfit Westrock

Jun 30, 1999

Pw 20355 Smu Con Cor Chi 2

Fanuc's six-axis S-430i robot, using Smurfit-Stone's R-J3 controller, picks empty bags from a customized bag magazine and places them onto a filler spout. Once the bags are filled and sealed via ultrasonic technology, the robot removes them from the spout and places them on a pallet. This system is capable of processing more than 5 bags/min.

Smurfit Westrock

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