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Filling, packing and palletizing at speeds the eye cannot follow.

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We wrote a full explainer for this category: High-Speed Bottling and Canning Lines. What the machine does, how it works, the numbers that matter and who buys one.

8 films

  • Video thumbnail: A high speed line filling mineral water 4:19
    Food and Packaging

    A high speed line filling mineral water

    A complete water bottling line: preforms are blown into bottles, filled, capped, labelled and packed without ever stopping. Lines of this class run at speeds measured in tens of thousands of bottles an hour, and the newest blocks reach 100,000 half-liter bottles an hour. The bottles move so fast the line looks like liquid itself.

    Krones AG 2013

  • Video thumbnail: An egg grader sorting and packing at line speed 4:52
    Food and Packaging

    An egg grader sorting and packing at line speed

    Eggs are handled by machine at rates that seem certain to end in disaster, weighed individually, candled for cracks and packed by grade. Nothing breaks. Egg grading is an object lesson in gentle handling at speed and it is fascinating to watch.

    MobaGroup Barneveld 2010

  • Video thumbnail: Building a greenfield brewery filling line 4:30
    Food and Packaging

    Building a greenfield brewery filling line

    A greenfield brewery line from empty floor to full production, filmed as a project rather than as a machine demo. You see how filler, pasteuriser, packer and palletiser have to be balanced against each other or the whole line stalls. Rare and useful insight into how a line is actually specified.

    KHS Group 2024

  • Video thumbnail: A journey through a carton filling machine 3:38
    Food and Packaging

    A journey through a carton filling machine

    A journey through an aseptic carton filling machine, which forms, fills and seals a sterile package from a reel of laminate while never letting a single organism in. The sterile zone is maintained by peroxide and heat, not by a clean room. It is the reason milk can sit on a shelf unrefrigerated.

    Tetra Pak 2015

  • Video thumbnail: A canning line filling and seaming 2:24
    Food and Packaging

    A canning line filling and seaming

    Empty cans arrive on an overhead air conveyor, drop into the filler, get seamed shut and leave in a solid moving wall of aluminum. Canning lines are the loudest and fastest thing in most beverage plants. Two and a half minutes of relentless throughput.

    Krones AG 2015

  • Video thumbnail: A robotic case packer and palletizer at end of line 2:22
    Food and Packaging

    A robotic case packer and palletizer at end of line

    A robot erects the case, a second robot packs the product into it and a third stacks the finished cases on a pallet, all in one integrated end-of-line cell. FANUC films it running at production speed. This is the single most common automation project in food and beverage plants right now.

    FANUC America Corporation 2016

  • Video thumbnail: A filler and capper built as one block 2:13
    Food and Packaging

    A filler and capper built as one block

    A filling block that combines rinsing, filling and capping on one frame so bottles never travel unprotected between machines. Blocking machines together removes conveyors, buffers and most of the contamination risk. Krones shows the valve carousel doing the work.

    Krones AG 2018

  • Video thumbnail: A cobot erecting and packing cases 1:46
    Food and Packaging

    A cobot erecting and packing cases

    A cobot-based case erector and packer small enough to sit at the end of a single line, with no safety fence and a footprint a small plant can actually afford. Automation at this scale is a very different proposition to a full robotic cell. Under two minutes and immediately understandable.

    Doosan Robotics Americas / ONExia Solutions 2021

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