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Palletizing

From cobot cells to high-level palletizers: robotic palletizing and depalletizing for cases, bags, pails and drums.

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Palletizing

Position in the solution family

  1. 01 Secondary Packaging
  2. 02 Palletizing
  3. 03 Pallet Packaging
  4. 04 Transport & Storage
System Overview

Palletizing is the most labour-intensive point at the end of a line: product is stacked unit by unit or layer by layer, pallets are fed, slip sheets placed, full pallets discharged. Cortiva designs that entire cycle as one system.

System selection comes down to three questions: what is being palletized (cases, bags, pails, drums), at what rate, and how much floor space is available. A cobot cell covers lower throughput in a small footprint, while a high-level palletizer builds full layers at speed.

Key Features
  1. Application-specific grippers: vacuum, clamp, or both combined
  2. Automatic empty pallet magazine and slip sheet dispensing
  3. Pallet patterns stored as recipes; no mechanical change for a new product
  4. Safety light curtains and guarding are part of the standard scope
Systems in This Family

Machines in the Palletizing family

  1. Compact Palletizer

    Clervo

    A fully enclosed compact cobot palletizing cell in two frame sizes (Standard and XL), handling up to 50 kg and pallets up to 2850 mm.

    Capacity
    up to 10 boxes/min
    Product weight
    Standard 35 kg · XL 50 kg

  2. Custom Palletizing

    Purpose-built palletizing cells: single or multiple infeed, unit, row or layer picking, products up to 57 kg and pallets up to 2743 mm.

    Case handling
    up to 30 products/min
    Product weight
    up to 57 kg

  3. Bag Palletizing

    Palletizing for paper, PP woven, PE and valve bags at up to 20 bags per minute, with bag weights from 5 to 50 kg.

    Capacity
    up to 20 bags/min
    Bag weight
    5–50 kg

  4. Pail & Drum Palletizing

    Six-axis industrial robots with combined vacuum and clamp gripping for precise stacking of pails and drums.

    Robot type
    6-axis industrial robot
    Positioning
    High precision placement

  5. High Level Palletizer

    A high-speed palletizer on a heavy-duty steel frame that forms complete layers and transfers them from an elevated infeed.

    Operation
    High-speed performance
    Layer formation
    Automatic

  6. Mixed Palletizing

    Multiple SKUs on a single pallet: order-based mixed pallet building with configurable pallet sizes.

    SKU variety
    Multi-SKU
    Pallet size
    Configurable

  7. Depalletizing

    Emptying full pallets of bottles, drums, jugs, pails and cases at up to 30 products per minute and 57 kg.

    Capacity
    up to 30 products/min
    Product weight
    up to 57 kg

  8. Bag Opening & Emptying System

    A low-dust system that opens bags automatically and discharges their contents completely into the process.

    Bag opening
    Automatic
    Material emptying
    Complete discharge
Applications

Where this family operates

  1. Case and carton palletizing
  2. Bag palletizing (paper, PP woven, PE, valve bags)
  3. Pail and drum palletizing
  4. Mixed (multi-SKU) pallet building
  5. Depalletizing and raw material feeding
FREQUENTLY ASKED

Questions that come up when choosing a palletizing system

It comes down to three questions: what is being palletized, at what rate, and how much floor space is available. For cases, a cobot cell covers lower throughput in a small footprint, a compact palletizer covers mid throughput inside an enclosure, and a high-level palletizer builds full layers at speed. Bags, pails and drums need their own holding arrangement; multi-SKU order pallets are built with mixed palletizing.

A robot and a gripper are not a cell on their own. The empty pallet magazine, slip sheet feeding, full pallet discharge, safety light curtains and guarding are designed within the same scope, so the cycle does not wait on an operator except to replenish pallets.

The limit sits with the gripper and the pallet pattern. A combined vacuum and clamp gripper can handle different product types in the same cell, and a pattern is stored as a separate recipe per product and pallet size, so a new product needs no mechanical change.

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