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San Manuel Bottled Water Group: Palletizing bottled water

A low-level palletizer loads tray packs onto a sweep platform that delivers full layers onto the pallet.

Palletizing and stretch wrapping are all that remain. Trays are conveyed to the palletizer on a zero-pressure accumulation conveyor from HK Systems (www.hksystems.com). The Priority One Pro-Pal Mini palletizer resembles the upstream depalletizer in that it also operates on a low-level, as opposed to overhead, basis.

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