Columbia Machine

Partnership to provide safe and economical palletizing solution for clients facing labor shortages.

43 new members bring active membership to 897.

Manufacturer and integrator of robotic palletizers and load transfer station partners with supplier of autonomous vehicles.

The latest developments in unitizing equipment and software are helping customers tackle packaging challenges.

Partnership combines robotic bag palletizing expertise with bag weighing, handling and closing equipment.

Five high-level palletizers integrated with case packer, stretch wrapper and pallet conveyor to storage.

Columbia now offers Complete Systems Integration services as an addition to their complete line of palletizing solutions.

The HL7200 provides the ultimate in flexibility by incorporating Columbia’s new programmable laner technology with Columbia’s proven soft turn and configurable layer table to provide accurate and stable layer forming.

Columbia Machine will once again demonstrate leading palletizing technologies at the upcoming Pack Expo Show.

Columbia's product line includes high speed, high level, floor level, robotic and hybrid palletizers, load transfer stations and complete systems integration.

Consumer packaged goods company Barcel USA needed an efficient integrated palletizing system to keep up with their growth.

Utah Brewers Cooperative, a small regional brewery that produces 25 different ales and lagers, realized in November 2010 that it needed a less labor-intensive way to palletize outgoing product. After installing a floor-level palletizer, the company was able to reassign workers to more value-added areas while more than doubling throughput.

MODEX 2014 reflected the industry’s commitment to the next generation of the supply chain, warehousing, logistics and distribution workforce.

The safest solution for food and pharmaceutical ingredient transfer from wooden shipping pallet to captive, in-house plastic pallets for processing is a load transfer station. These machines maintain the load’s integrity, prevent potential contamination from the wood pallet and protect workers from possible injury

Whether they are opening new DCs, improving inventory control, or turning to 3PLs to improve processes, survey respondents tell that there’s no one prominent way to keep costs in check while simultaneously improving service levels.