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[July 2002]
Rapid Robots for Palletising
Pacepacker Ltd (Braintree, Essex, England) has announced further expansions to its product range of palletising robots in response to increased concerns over manual handling regulations. To enable greater speed, Pacepacker says it has pioneered the development of multiple bag handling end effectors.These units pick up more than one bag at a time before moving out over the pallet and placing each bag individually into position. Stacking rates of up to 25 bags per minute have been achieved on 25kg bags. Traditionally, says the company, such speeds were only possible with large high level palletisers taking one product at a time.
However, it is pointed out, the robot cell not only takes up a fraction of the floor space of the high level machine, it can also handle more than one product at a time giving what Pacepacker describes as "unrivalled flexibility for the producer".
Customers are reported to have found no deterioration in stack quality and have also enjoyed considerably lower maintenance costs by using the Pacepacker robotic palletising cell.
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