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Columbia Machine manufactures heavy-duty palletizing equipment, ranging from floor level, high-level and robotic palletizing solutions. In addition, Columbia manufactures load transfer stations that efficiently interchange load base types. Our parts and service hotline is available 24 hours.
In 1948, Lambert made & marketed the first palletizer in the US. We are a full line manufacturer & integrator of palletizers & material handling systems: automatic, semi-automatic & robotic palletizing systems for bags & cartons. Our high infeed and floor level designs offer the widest application flexibility in the industry.
For over 50 years, Möllers North America has been a leading manufacturer of high-speed, low-entry and high-entry bag palletizers. We also produce quality bag filling systems, stretch hooding and shrinkwrapping systems. Our bag palletizers can process up to 3000 bags an hour.
ABC Packaging Machine Corporation is a leading manufacturer of case and bag palletizers, bulk depalletizers, decasers, high speed palletizers, pallet handling equipment, and accumulation systems. A-B-C has served the packaging industry for over 60 years, providing quality, innovation and service.
Supplying material handling equipment such as palletizers to the graphic arts industry, is the focus here at IMC America. Our fully automatic palletizers can handle compressed and strapped bundles and feature empty pallet feeding, full pallet ejection, bundle rotation and 2 axis of movement.
Palletizers and palletizer systems are machines that
arrange products on a pallet for shipping, storing or moving. Palletizers
have a feed area that receives the goods that are to be palletized. The
feed area can be at ground level (low level) or at high level through
a hopper overhead. While low level palletizers are fed from the ground
level, products are fed to high level palletizers from an overhead hopper.
The feed is received in a rolling or flowing fashion, in both cases,
and is continuously transferred to the pallets, allowing for greater
speed. Palletizers without feeds are usually robotic. In this case, the
arm individually picks up, orients and places the individual item on
the pallet. These robotic
palletizers are often used with products that
are fragile or heavy. The use of palletizers in these situations reduces
the risk of injury to the workers and damage to the product.
Palletizer systems are used in packaging situations that require multiple
units to be shipped or stored together. Placing the units on the pallet
makes stacking, storing and moving the loads easier and more efficient.
Packaging and shipping companies are the main users of palletizers as
well as companies who do their own shipping. Palletizers can work with
drums, sacks, bags, pails, cans, cases and various other product types.
When looking for palletizers, it is important to consider the type of
goods the machine will be required to handle, as not all palletizers
are equipped to handle all package types.
Automatic and robotic palletizers have many advantages for companies
thinking of purchasing palletizers. Palletizing units can work faster
and have better consistency than a more costly human operator has. They
can withstand harsh environments better and are less likely to be injured
than a human is. These units also come with some safety features like
QuickSTOP collision sensors and work cell perimeter guards called Smartscan.
QuickSTOP has sensors that will shut down the work cell and deflate to
absorb impact, which minimizes damage to tooling and the product. Smartscan
has L- and T- shaped curtain units that are advanced enough to detect
a pallet or a person being passed through the system. If a pallet is
detected in the work cell, it is allowed to pass through, but if a person
is detected, then movement is stopped immediately in a matter of seconds.
Automatic and robotic palletizers generally appeal to users with mid-
to high range needs. Users with low range needs assume palletizing units
are out of their budget, but most suppliers claim you can purchase palletizers
and palletizer systems from the money you could save from avoiding just
one back injury. To figure out what palletizers type is best for your
company, you must consider how many lines of output will be distributing
to the palletizers, if your conveyors release products at low level or
high level, the way you assemble pallets, the type and size of pallets
you use and the speed of your conveyor line.
Articulated arm palletizers
are a type of robotic palletizer that have a jointed arm, which gives
them a greater range of motion and flexibility, while positioning
products on a four-axis motion.
Automatic palletizers assemble products on pallets by themselves
or with little assistance, mainly limited to restocking packaging components.
They can often be part of a larger shipping system.
Bag palletizers include
gripping modifications specifically to arrange bags on pallets for
shipping and/or movement.
Can palletizers arrange filled or empty cans onto pallets for shipping
or moving.
Case
palletizers lift
cases from tables and place them onto a pallet or previous layer of
product.
Depalletizers remove products by layer from pallets for leveling
or stocking purposes.
Drum palletizers move filled or empty drums onto pallets for shipping
or moving.
Gantry palletizers
are a type of robotic palletizer that consists of a combination of
a robotic arm and an overhead crane
or I-bean.
In-line palletizer
systems can
stack complete layers of cartons or bags at one time.
Manual palletizers speed the stacking goods onto a pallet and aid
with layer organization.
Pail palletizers include
modifications specifically to arrange pails on pallets for shipping
and/or movement.
Palletizing refers to the packaging process of arranging of products on a pallet for transportation purposes.
Palletizing equipment refers to the various machines used to pack and transport pallets.
Robotic
palletizers lift and move goods to pallets automatically
or semi-automatically, relieving workers from
the potential hazards of
heavy, repetitive lifting.
Row stripper palletizers are
a type of in-line palletizer that organizes a row and pushes it aside
until another row
is formed and put on top of the previous row, which is done until
a full
pallet is
completed.
Selective compliant
articulated robot arm (SCARA) palletizers are a
type of robotic palletizer that use a mast
and cross arm to place products
through four axes of motion.
Semi-automatic palletizers allow
an operator to stack layers of heavy products with no lifting.
Vacuum-head unit is
a type of in-line palletizer that clutches products with air powered suction cups and places the items on the pallets.
Palletizers Terms
Captive Pallet – A pallet that stays within a
facility and is not exchanged, traded or delivered off site.
Deck – The top or bottom surface of the pallet.
Deflection – The amount of bending in a pallet or one of its components
when under a load.
Fork Entry – The place for forks to enter and move the pallet,
usually between decks or under the top deck.
Line Load – The weight of a unit load concentrated across the entire
length or width of the pallet or along a narrow area.
Load Bearing Surface – The area of material that is in contact
with and is supporting a unit load.
Pallets – Platforms used to stack goods on for shipping, storing
or moving. They can have two-way or four-way entry by fork trucks.
Pallet Design System (PDS) – A
computer-aided design program that helps determine safe load carrying
capacities, performance, life and
economy of wooden pallets.
Pallet Jack – A manual wheeled platform used for lifting palletized
unit loads.
Racked Across Deckboards – The maximum load carrying capacity and
deflection of a pallet where, at the ends of the deckboards, the rack
frame sustains the pallet.
Racked Across Stringers – The maximum carrying capacity of a pallet
where, only at the ends of the stringers or stringer boards, the rack
frame sustains the pallet.
Slave Pallet – A panel used to support the base of a palletized
load in rack-storage facilities.
Strapping – Bands, which secure
the goods or load to the pallet.
Throughput – The amount of output or production in a given period
of time.
Top Cap – Panel placed on top
of goods on a pallet that protects them from damage when strapping occurs.
Unit Load – The collecting of goods to be moved or shipped onto
a pallet.
