Columbia Machine is a market leader of floor & high-level palletizers and Load Transfer Systems. Production rates from 5 to over 150 upm can be handled efficiently. LTS systems have found a niche in the current push to improve GMP by removing wood pallets from production areas as well as in warehouse or DC’s in order to retain in-house pallets or provide the same product onto multiple outbound pallet types.
Since 1972, Elmar Industries is a worldwide leader in filling machines for the food, beverage, personal care, paint industries. Robust solutions for your application are available in rotary piston, particulate, or vacuum syruper filling technologies. Machines are available in stand-alone or monoblock fill/close system formats. Fill rates from 15 to 1,600 CPM depending upon fill volume, with fill ranges from 15ml to 20L. The best designed, made, and supported filler in the business.
Columbia Okura is North America’s leading supplier of fully integrated robotic palletizing solutions. Jointly owned by Columbia Machine and Okura Yusoki, they seamlessly put decades of robotic palletizer manufacturing experience with over a century of combined material handling experience into each solution that is produced. Columbia Okura manufactures and integrates Okura robots in North America.
Viking Masek offers comprehensive end-of-line flexible packaging solutions including premade pouch packing machines, intermittent and high-speed continuous motion vertical baggers, flow wrappers, and multilane stick packaging machines. Offerings also extend into secondary packaging, such as cartoners and robotic case packers. Areas of expertise include cheese, coffee, meats, fresh vegetables, pharmaceuticals and dietary supplements, and much more.
Solbern has been designing and manufacturing food processing and packaging equipment since the early 1960s. Direct Fillers are used for free flowing solid products, such as vegetables, pickled products, mushrooms, spices and delicate products. Liquid Filling equipment add brine, broth or sauce to pre-filled containers or fill non-carbonated liquids. Specialized equipment for the pickle industry as well as automated folding equipment for burritos, egg rolls, taquitos, etc. are also a mainstay of this organization.
Ferrum is a Swiss based global innovator and supplier of high quality sanitary can closing machinery since 1917. With speed capabilities from 50-2,500 cpm, they are well positioned to handle canning rates found in food and beverage worldwide. Applications include seaming under atmospheric pressure, steam vacuum or under cover gassing for round cans. Vacuum closers are also available for sweet corn, powdered milk and coffee.
Frazier & Son has been developing their extensive line of quality bucket elevators and conveyors. With several configurations to choose from including single or multi point discharges, gentle product handling is ensured at rates from 90-990 cu ft/hour. Full conveyor line integration is also available. Serving the food, confection, cereal, tea, spice, pasta, nut, kit assembly and industrial products since the 1950’s.
Since its foundation in 1988, CPS has focused on fully automatic case packing systems with a special emphasis on flexible products, trays, and retail-ready formats. CPS is uniquely proficient in packing products of this type efficiently at high speeds. CPS machines achieve substantial cost savings by packing products more compactly than is possible by hand. Full line integration and project management can be arranged with partner OEMs to deliver complete turn-key projects.
American Packaging Machinery has designed and manufactured high quality value-added film bundling solutions to the North American marketplace since 1992. They guarantee productivity improvements, enhance line efficiency and provide innovative low cost solutions. Their focus on product material handling maximizes line rates and performance repeatability. Their packaging systems are designed to meet a variety of applications in the food, ice cream and dairy, industrial, aerosol, personal care and printing industries.
