SIPA Filling and Packaging Division has further expanded its range of palletizers, making it one of the most complete and avant-garde on the market today. This range has been enhanced with the state of the art of a gentle, precise and fast layer preparation even in case of extremely lightweighted bottles.
With Active Layer and Fastlayer systems we are able to cover all customer’s requirements in term of productivity (medium/low and high speeds) and logistic (line and 90° infeed). The heart of the system is a patented gripping head allowing for contemporary handling of several packs at the same time. These new solutions guarantee the following main results:
• Improvement of the transportation of some containers with its extremely delicate handling, in order to avoid any damage to the product.
• Reduction of the time required for size changes or adjustments for new products.
• Increase in performance with small footprint (to achieve the same productivity levels - conventional systems would in fact require much larger solutions)

Low/medium speed: ACTIVE LAYER
Innovative row preparation system designed to optimize the medium and low output palletization plants. It is composed of a clamp type head (SIPA patent) installed on linear axes, suitable to up to six packs at the same time. This type of gripping guarantees a very fast, accurate and soft pack rotation: the elimination of hits is very important for the last generation of lightened bottles.
The packs slide on a smooth modular chain conveyor avoiding any type of issues connected to the petaloid bottle base type. By eliminating the impact pack turning device, the row spacers and the rollers of the traditional solutions, this system allows the reduction of maintenance activities and avoids change over time. In fact the system automatically settles itself by means of a simple selection of the size from the operator panel.
Active layer module can also be installed on existing plants in order to increase production output and save space in comparison to the traditional palletization solution.

High Speeds: FASTLAYER
Fastlayer systems offer the same advantages of the Active Layer and can be integrated upstream of any type of palletizer with fixed or mobile pallets. This application comprises 1 or 2 anthropomorphic robots mounted in parallel which move continuously and synchronously with the belt below.
The 6-axis robots in the Fanuc range, the best on the market today in terms of reliability and technology, are mounted above the transfer belt at a forward angle of 40°. This solution optimises the working area, achieving high performances while reducing the space required. Secondly, the patented pack gripping head adds two further robot-managed movement axes, meaning that several packs can be processed at a time.
The packs arrive on the layer formation belt in single or double file and appropriately spaced. The robots work against the flow and orient and arrange the packs to prepare the layer, according to the selected palletization setting.
With this compact, reliable and accurate layer arrangement we can match the requirements of the highest output plants.
Furthermore this application is perfectly suited to the needs of increasingly light bottles and product differentiation. This multiplies the number of formats to be managed.