Apple packing automated

Brillopak installed five apple packing lines at the retailer’s central distribution centre, transforming operation from a roundtable manual crate separation and loading method, to a high speed, optimised packing and palletising process. Prior to the installation, three operatives loaded flow-wrapped apple packs into crates by hand. Loaded crates were then placed onto a main track conveyor system, which took them away for palletising.

Bringing together four of Brillopak’s modular systems, each line comprises a crate lift unit and tray destacker, a semi-automated packing station, a bale arm closer, plus a dual crate stacker unit feeding out onto the main palletising conveyor line.