Palletizers & Depalletizers

Retrotech employs palletizers/depalletizers in ASRS designs. Retrotech applies the best product for material type, rate and stacking pattern. The wide variety of designs includes articulated arm, layer and pusher forming units.

autoStak Box Palletizer

Palletizers are usually used to support manufacturing operations, receiving cases directly from production lines. Products are typically stacked onto GMA or other pallets according to customer designated requirements for height, weight and overhand of cases or cartons.

Palletizers provide automated material handling of the pallet build function. On occasion they are used to build mixed product builds. This means that some arrangement cases (called patterns) on a single level of the pallet or layer, often called 'ti' (tier) and then stacked 'hi' (high or number of tiers stacked). This provides more than one SKU or product in combination on the pallet to accomplish filling an order directly to pallet. This requires significantly better case and order control via rules the equipment can manage.

Depalletizers are reversing the palletizer operation, theoretically, and can be used to release layers or streams of cases out to trucks via extendable conveyors or to WIP stations via singulation of a layer into streams. Depalletizers are also used to take products from single SKU per pallet and release the cases to palletizers for a mix build pallet.