Palletizers

Palletizers

Siggins is proud to represent an entire line of floor-level, high-level and robotic palletizer machines and load transfer stations. Columbia Machine manufactures palletizing machinery featuring premium construction, multiple design options, superior flexibility and a processing speed of up to 200 cases per minute. With the wide product line, we are sure to have a palletizing solution to meet your needs.

How Do Palletizers Work?

Palletizers are automated machines that eliminate the formerly manual processes of transferring, sorting and stacking products on a pallet. They’re generally end-of-line solutions in manufacturing and distribution that create more efficiency and higher productivity.

The first palletizer debuted in the mid-20th century as a row-forming machine that stacked finished goods onto a pallet in precise sections. As technology advanced, these machines became capable of automated processing for more products, especially those with irregular shapes that present significant challenges.

Today’s options marry precision control with stability, enabling faster turnarounds and lower labor costs. They also provide benefits like:

• Better safety: Palletizers can handle heavy goods and repetitive movements without the risks manual processing poses to humans.
• High reliability: These systems offer durability and dependability for consistent performance.
• Advanced technology: This equipment integrates with many common software applications for improved accuracy, output and load stability.
• Versatility: Palletizers can adapt to many operations and stock types, increasing their value and usefulness.

Ideal Applications for a Palletizer

Palletizers are perfect for numerous operations, including production and distribution environments. 

In manufacturing, automated palletizers help achieve and maintain high-volume production amid rising labor costs. They allow facilities to quickly load stable pallets, even as new packaging trends emerge. For warehousing and fulfillment professionals, palletizers help simplify storage and shipping processes.

When choosing the best solution for your distribution operations, look first at your warehouse pallet racking design — it’s likely based primarily on the pallet types your facility uses. The style will help you determine the best pallet conveyor design for your needs. Since types vary widely, it’s crucial to identify the pallets’ compatibility with potential equipment. 

Other key selection factors include:

• Product mix
• Volume
• Weight
• Operating environment
• Software ease-of-use

Our Automated Pallet Handling Systems

Siggins has palletizer options to manage today’s most demanding warehousing operations.

Load Transfer Stations

A load transfer station (LTS) moves goods from one pallet type to another. Examples include transfers between wooden pallets to in-facility ones, wood to plastic, pallet to slip-sheet and additional combinations. This pallet transfer machine is typically found in both receiving and shipping applications. In the receiving environment, the LTS helps to prevent contamination from going into production areas. When used in the shipping application the loads are transferred onto shipping pallets to help retain the good quality pallets in-house.

An LTS is available as a stand-alone unit or as a fully automatic unit integrated into a larger system. The LTS can help your plant become compliant with FSMA, HACCP and GMP. LTS units help to eliminate injuries, streamline plant and warehouse operations and reduce costs. 

Floor-Level Palletizers

Floor-level palletizers feature infeed entry levels typically between 30” and 36”. As goods move through the infeed conveyor, a built-in device automatically turns the products before they continue into the row-forming space. Once the rows are complete, products travel on to layer-forming, where the palletizer pushes the new layer atop the existing one.

Columbia Machine provides a range of floor-level palletizers that stack from 1 to 50 cases per minute, depending on your production needs. The base model is a FL1000 that stacks up to 15 cases per minute. The faster speeds are met with the use of >a FL3000 that is capable of stacking up to 50 cases per minute.

Palletizers

A high-level infeed palletizer may have an infeed entry level of from 84” to 124”. As with the floor-level palletizers, the product goes through a similar flow to orientate the product. However, the pallet is raised and lowered to the layer stripping area to build the pallet load at a high elevation. Once the load is complete, the pallet is lowered to the discharge elevation which is typically between 18” to 30”.

Columbia Machine provides a range of high-level palletizers that stack from 10 to 200 cases per minute. The product line includes row-forming palletizers: HL2000, SP4000 and HL6200; and inline palletizers: HL7200 and HL9200.

Robotic Palletizers

Robotic palletizers can be positioned as a floor level or high level palletizing solution and can vary greatly in complexity. Systems range from a simple single line with manually placed pallets to very complex, such as a system with five packaging lines feeding a single robotic palletizer that simultaneously builds five different pallet loads.

Columbia/Okura is the premier provider of robotic palletizing equipment. With advanced safety standards, easy to operate programming & product flexibility, the A-Series robotic palletizing machine is the ideal robotic solution for your packaging line requirements.

Why Work With Siggins?

Siggins is the first choice for many distribution center owners and managers because we offer:

• Knowledge: Our team boasts expertise across many verticals and understands their unique challenges. We’re able to provide industry-specific guidance and system recommendations.
• Customization: We take a consultative approach that begins with an in-depth analysis of your facility’s needs and processes. Our team will create custom equipment strategies based on your workflows and stock.
• Results: Siggins helps achieve real-world results. You can browse our customer success stories to see the value we deliver.
• Value: We partner with today’s material handling equipment leaders to offer premium-quality solutions. Our comprehensive selection of services and products provide an excellent return on investment.
• Technology: The Siggins team keeps its finger on the pulse of industry trends and changes. We can offer many advanced options for optimization and automation.
• Experience: We’ve been helping support business growth since 1946. Steady growth has allowed us to expand our services throughout North America.

Order Palletizers From Siggins With Confidence

Our team is ready to help you find the best solution to optimize your warehouse’s storage, equipment and operations. Experience our individualized attention and manufacturer-agnostic advice first-hand.

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